The City of Regina’s two highest-paid employees in 2022 worked less than six months for the organization that year. According to the public accounts report presented to city council, former City Manager Chris Holden was the city’s highest-paid employee, despite only working for the city for two months in 2022. On February 7, 2022, council […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Regina Folk Festival is looking to the community for help. Through social media, the festival stated that it is struggling. “It’s no secret that the festival has experienced significant challenges over the past several years, which we continue to feel the effects of,” the post read. “The economic challenges resulting from the pandemic include […]
Jason Young measures the success of his students from one year to the next, celebrating wins both big and small. The director of education for Saskatchewan’s Northern Lights School Division, which is responsible for most of the province’s northern communities, says it’s important to highlight every bit of progress among Indigenous students despite graduation rates […]
The City of Regina is on pace to see a record number of drug-related deaths. The City has seen 55 overdose deaths through the end of April. That number is on pace to break 2021’s 164 record deaths by one. The 55 deaths through the first four months also mark the most the RPS has […]
Regina’s executive committee voted for the city not to further expand its domestic chemical pesticide usage restrictions. It was back in April 2021 that the city began a review on non-essential pesticides. It was only recently that a report presented to the executive committee looked at options for further regulating public and private pesticide use […]
A 17-year-old is facing 52 total charges after a series of residential break and enters. Beginning in early May of this year, the Regina Police Service began an investigation into a string of break and enters with similar methods of operations. The incidents originated in northwest Regina neighbours but soon expanded to other city areas. […]
