A report presented to the Regina Board of Police Commissioners showed that Regina Police Service officers had multiple occurrences of inappropriate uses of force for the first time since 2018. The board was presented the Use of Force Year-End 2022 report, which showed four instances where officers were deemed to have used an inappropriate amount […]
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, […]
The Government of Saskatchewan announced a new joint-use elementary school that will house four schools in North Regina. The new school will be built on the existing Imperial Community School site and consolidate and replace St. Peter and St. Michael, Imperial and McDermid elementary schools. The new facility will have two elementary schools, one operated […]
Since 2020 there have been 39 homicides in the Queen City. Of those, just two have seen no charges brought forward, with 64 people charged concerning the other 37 homicides. The most recent case dates back to February of this year when a 36-year-old man in the Washington Park neighbourhood was deemed the first homicide […]
Regina city council is looking to put any “drama” behind them as council voted not to reprimand Councillor Dan LeBlanc and Andrew Stevens for their role in a December 2022 lawsuit against City Manager Nikki Anderson. Council would instead vote 7 to 2 to reiterate their disappointment over the lawsuit’s negative impact on the council’s […]
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 […]
Over a dozen tents have been set up outside City Hall, bringing homelessness to the front doors for city staff and council. The camp was set up after an event last Thursday that saw community members in Pepsi Park mark the first anniversary of a motion to include funding to end homelessness as a line […]
Saskatchewan RCMP seized 11 firearms and 10,000 rounds of ammunition in a search warrant execution. On June 20, the Saskatchewan RCMP Federal Policing National Security Enforcement Section and the Regina Police Service executed search warrants at a residence on the 1100 block of Grey Street in Regina and a storage facility on Inland Drive in […]
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 […]
Regina is celebrating National Indigenous Peoples Day with various programs across the Queen City. The Regina Downtown Business Improvement District and Creative City Centre unveiled a Path to Reconciliation mural project to mark the occasion. The 8-foot-wide path down the centre of the FW Hill Mall on the 1800 block of Scarth Street was designed […]
