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Third teen pleads guilty to attempted robbery in connection with 15-year-old...

A 17-year-old boy is the last of three teens to plead guilty in connection with the November 2019 shooting death of a 15-year-old boy in Saskatoon. Read More

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'There are many victims:' Sentencing hearing in fatal crash highlights the...

Recently retired farm couple Marjorie and Gordon Classen were excited for their new life in Saskatoon. A glimpse at their calendar showed their future plans: pickleball and choir, with Gordon preparing...

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'Truly frightening:' Woman recalls waking up to stranger in her bedroom

A man who says he used a spare key that he found hidden in a barbecue to break into a stranger's house this summer was high on methamphetamine and acting out of character, a Saskatoon provincial...

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Man gets five years for stabbing stranger seven times, leaving him in alley

A nicked heart could have been the difference between an aggravated assault and a murder, a Saskatoon judge said when sentencing a man for stabbing a stranger seven times and leaving him in a downtown...

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Nine-year sentence for woman who tried to shoot husband in the head

One minute, Douglas Rutt was cracking a beer on a deck with his wife's uncle after working on a cabin north of Meadow Lake. Read More

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Drug trial scrapped after two of three accused plead guilty in 2019 meth bust

A trial for three men accused of trafficking a significant amount of methamphetamine in and around Saskatoon last year did not go ahead as planned on Tuesday, after two of the accused agreed to plead...

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Landon Gartner will serve jail time in the community for role in motorcycle...

A split-second decision to speed up to 70 kilometres an hour in order to clear an intersection before the light turned red had "catastrophic consequences," killing 28-year-old Lindsay Facca. Read More

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'What happened?' Crash victim upset that charges were stayed against alleged...

On Oct. 4, 2019, Jessica Townsend, her fiancée, three kids and seven kittens left Saskatoon with a packed U-Haul hitched to their SUV, embarking on a cross-country road trip to Ontario. Read More

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First-degree murder trial hears Blake Schreiner stabbed Tammy Brown 80 times

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Blake Schreiner testifies he thought spouse was trying to kill him

In the months before he stabbed his spouse Tammy Brown 80 times in their bedroom while their kids were home, Blake Jeffrey Schreiner says voices told him that Brown was trying to kill him. Read More

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The night he stabbed his spouse, Blake Schreiner says voices told him Tammy...

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Water main break delays Blake Schreiner murder trial

A water main break on Spadina Crescent closed down the Saskatoon Court of Queen's Bench on Friday, delaying the continuation of the Blake Schreiner first-degree murder trial until Monday morning. Read...

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In journals written after his arrest, Blake Schreiner described taking...

In the first of five journals he wrote in custody after he killed his spouse, Blake Jeffrey Schreiner described taking psilocybin mushrooms on the night he stabbed Tammy Brown. Read More

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Relatives testify to Blake Schreiner's mental decline before he killed Tammy...

Until the day she died, Tammy Brown was trying to help her spouse and father of their two young children get help for his mental health issues. Read More

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Prison term for man who pointed unloaded rifle at strangers in front of bar

When Pierre Darcy Ntungane pulled up in a parking lot outside a Saskatoon bar, jumped out of a silver SUV and pointed a gun at a group of strangers, they would have had no idea what was about to...

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Cart manufacturer CEO testifies at Saskatoon workplace fatality trial

Examining the diagram of a formwork table cart that collapsed onto of a 21-year-old construction worker in Saskatoon, the CEO of Pilosio SPA said moving the 1,200 pound cart alone would be like...

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Table cart pins removed by employee did not cause workplace death,...

Competing expert testimony has been presented at a workplace fatality trial assessing liability after a 21-year-old construction worker died while working on the Jim Pattison Children's Hospital in...

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Evidence concludes at trial for companies accused in workplace death at...

An Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) trial into the workplace death of a 21-year-old construction worker has adjourned until December for arguments. Read More

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Sask. mother convicted of confining, but acquitted of neglecting, five children

A judge has found a Saskatchewan woman guilty of unlawful confinement for allowing her spouse to lock their five children in rooms without doorknobs — sometimes for up to 15 hours at a time. Read More

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Stepfather on trial, accused of sexually abusing stepdaughter with disability

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