Not only blood but platelets and plasma donations are needed this Thanksgiving weekend. “Thanksgiving, like other long weekends, can be a difficult time to collect donations as people are away or busy with family activities. Your donation to Canada’s Lifeline this Thanksgiving holiday can make all the difference for patients in need,” said Canadian Blood […]
As of April 30, 2022, STARS Ambulance has been operating at its Regina base for ten years. Since 2012, STARS has carried out 9,288 missions and 1,725 of those missions were carried out between 2021 and 2022. Today, STARS Ambulance and its Crown investors, which are Crowns Investments Corporation (CIC), SaskPower, SaskEnergy, SGI, and Sasktel, […]
The Warriors of Hope Community Support will be holding a traditional feast to honour a woman named Marjorie, whose death sparked a renewed conversation about the City’s homelessness crisis. Just over one year ago, a woman named Marjorie passed away due to a drug overdose in Victoria Park. Shylo Stevenson, executive director and communications officer […]
There is no way to enforce building or fire codes on First Nations and pursuing a legislative fix would require significant time and money, federal officials warn in an internal briefing document. But Blaine Wiggins, the senior director of the Indigenous Fire Marshals Service, said that enforcement gap has “catastrophic” consequences. House fires have long […]
The University of Regina has found new strains of the Omicron variants in the City’s wastewater. According to the U of R’s latest wastewater update, the school found Omicron sub-lineages BQ.1/BQ1.11 and BA.2.75.2, which are “highly transmissible and immune evasive,” were identified in Regina in September. COVID-19 viral load levels have also increased to their […]
Phase two of the major sewer renewal project along Acrola Avenue begins on Tuesday. During this phase, the city warns motorists of increased traffic restrictions that will progress westward down Arcola Avenue. These traffic measures are being implemented for crews to reline an existing sewer pipe that serves 30,000 households in southeast Regina. Phase two […]
Regina’s city council voted to increase leisure service fees across the city. The “inflationary increase” will go up by two per cent in 2023 and three per cent in both 2024 and 2025. With the increases, a one-month family leisure pass will cost $107.68 as of January 2023. The price will rise to $110.92 in […]
A robbery last week has led to a 53-year-old man facing multiple charges. On September 30, police were dispatched to the 1600 block of Albert Street for a robbery report. Early information suggested that a woman was walking through a business parking lot and was approached by a man. He asked the woman for money, […]
A man tried to take things from vehicles and a garage in the north end of the city early Thursday morning but was caught by Regina city police. They went to a call at about 3 a.m. in the 4800 block of Anthony Place , where a man had used a stolen garage door opener […]
Early Monday morning, police arrested and charged a 23-year-old man after an incident at a restaurant. At 5:30 a.m., police were dispatched to a restaurant on the 400 block of Albert Street North for the report of an assault. A woman with a small child entered the business and was physically dragged away by a […]
