2010 July 15

Michael John Morrison, 58, a Calgary man accused of setting a deadly 1974 fire, died last week before his case could go to trial.

In some circles, the Saskatchewan Roughriders’ defence is considered to be as puzzling as the Caramilk secret.

One woman is dead after a two-vehicle collision Wednesday night on Saskatoon’s eastside.

Logan Yanick made the long trip to Saskatoon worth his while. Competing at the July 13-14 Maple Leaf Junior Golf Tours CPGA of Saskatchewan Junior Championship at the Willows Golf Club in Saskatoon, the Crown Isle golfer won the Boys 13 & Under title and also the Mr. Lube long drive competition for his age group.

Someone has been shooting out road signs in Lanigan and police are investigating.

Electricity rates are going up 4.5 per cent in Saskatchewan, starting Aug. 1.

On Thursday, organizers of the Craven Country Jamboree thanked those who waited for extended periods of time in a lineup to enter the festival grounds, particularly the ‘Silver F’ campers — who organizers said were “especially inconvenienced.”

A leisurely ride through Montana’s Rocky Mountains turned deadly on Tuesday afternoon when a Regina man lost control of his Harley Davidson motorcycle and crashed head-on into an oncoming car.

Saskatchewan residents will likely pay an additional $60 to $120 a year for electricity once a SaskPower rate increase kicks in on August 1.

Harry Jerome’s scorching run down a cinder track in Saskatoon
during the summer of 1960 set stopwatches clicking and fans
cheering.

A new report from Statistics Canada shows a significant drop
in enrolment at the University of Saskatchewan between the 2007 and
2008 school years.

The Craven Country Jamboree grounds and the camping area are definitely in need of some drying out as rain continued to fall on the area July 14, 2010.

More than 300 people from northern Saskatchewan have been
airlifted to Prince Albert due to dense smoke from a nearby forest
fire.

A clinic in Riversdale is informing patients outright that it
won’t prescribe certain drugs to people on the methadone program.

A Saskatoon judge handed a three-year prison term Wednesday
to a 28-year-old woman who took part in a brutal home invasion and
beating on the city’s west side in 2009.

A former dealer of Cover-All Building Systems Inc. structures
in Russia is raising concerns about the now-defunct Saskatoon
company’s communication of product warnings earlier this year.

After running playful circles around the elderly horse, the
agile foal bolts across the open pasture, brakes to a halt and
shoots back to his companion to get up to more mischief.

A woman is dead after a crash in a south-east end neighbourhood Wednesday night. Police say it happened in Lakeview at about 9:30. A small compact car was east-bound on Delaronde Road, and was struck by a south-bound SUV …

Saskatoon’s Anna Young and Breanna White of Fort Qu’Appelle remain deadlocked atop the leaderboard following two rounds at the Saskatchewan women’s Amateur golf championship.

More evidence that Saskatoon’s economy is growing; a commercial relator is attracting some big name businesses to the city. Construction for Phase 2 of Matrix Business Park in North Saskatoon is underway. The space is …

More than 300 people have been moved to Prince Albert, Sask., due to heavy forest fire smoke near their homes in northern Saskatchewan.