After 42 days, the encampment in front of City Hall is being decommissioned. Regina Fire Chief Layne Jackson made the decision. “Regina Fire and Protective Service had become increasingly concerned about the possibility of a significant fire at the encampment. Today’s (Thursday) fire confirms that the lives of those living on the encampment are at […]
After 33 days, the tent encampment in front of City Hall has seen its first death. According to the Regina Police Service, one woman died from an apparent drug overdose Wednesday morning. Mayor Sandra Masters issued her condolences to the family and loved ones of the individual who tragically lost her life. “Every decision we […]
The Regina Police Service says that one person has died from a suspected overdose at the City Hall tent encampment this morning. Shortly before 5:45 a.m., police were called to a report of an overdose. When police arrived, EMS was on the scene with a deceased adult female. Police said they are working with the […]
After close to 28 years as part of the Regina Police Service, Chief Evan Bray will be handing in his gun and badge. Bray announced earlier this year that it “felt like a good time” to retire. With June 30th marking his retirement, 620 CKRM sat down with Bray to discuss his nearly three-decade-long career. […]
Saskatchewan RCMP has charged a 34-year-old concerning the death of Misha Pavelick. Pavelick was fatally stabbed on May 21, 2006, when a fight broke out at a long weekend high school grad party near Regina Beach. Sgt. Major Darryl Milo, the officer in charge of the Saskatchewan RCMP’s historical case unit, said after 17 years, […]
Saskatchewan’s education minister has suspended Planned Parenthood from making presentations in classrooms after the organization took “inappropriate” sexual material to a high school. Dustin Duncan said Thursday that the material, a pamphlet, was recently obtained by a Grade 9 student at the school in Lumsden, north of Regina. It included graphic, sexual words beginning with […]
Saskatchewan’s justice department is investigating a former government employee who was found to have inappropriately accessed personal information as part of an alleged illegal immigration scheme. Richelle Bourgoin, the province’s deputy minister of immigration and career training, said Wednesday that prosecutors are looking into whether to lay charges after the ministry found the employee had […]
Dashcam footage seized from a transport truck that collided with a minibus full of seniors, killing 15, shows the bus pulled into the lane where the truck had the right-of-way, Manitoba RCMP said Friday. “We don’t know why the bus proceeded into the (truck’s) lane, but that is something we’re going to continue to look […]
RCMP say 15 people are dead and 10 are in hospital after a bus carrying people from Dauphin, Man., many of them seniors, collided with a semi truck. Assistant Commissioner Rob Hill, the commanding officer of Manitoba’s RCMP, said Thursday the crash happened at the intersection of highways 1 and 5 near Carberry, about two hours south […]
