Saskatchewan News

SWIFT CURRENT, Sask. — Jagger Firkus scored a hat trick to lead the Moose Jaw Warriors to a 5-3 win over the Swift Current Broncos in Western Hockey League action Friday night. Atley Calvert and Ethan Semeniuk had the other goals for Moose Jaw.

MELFORT, Sask. — Myles Sanderson had a list of grievances and was ready to kill anyone who got in his way, a coroner's inquest into a Saskatchewan mass stabbing heard Friday.

REGINA — A Saskatchewan judge has handed a three-year sentence to a former Western Hockey League coach found guilty of inappropriately touching and hitting a teenage player 35 years ago.

MELFORT, Sask. — The common-law partner of the man responsible for a massacre on a Saskatchewan First Nation wept as she talked about years of emotional and physical abuse that would culminate in the death of her father during the stabbing rampage.

REGINA — Saskatchewan is banning health providers from giving out pipes used for smoking drugs and has changed how they can exchange needles, a move harm reduction workers say will exacerbate the transmission of viruses.

REGINA — The Saskatchewan Roughriders re-signed American running back Frankie Hickson to a one-year contract extension Thursday. Hickson was scheduled to become a free agent next month.

REGINA — The union representing Saskatchewan teachers says it plans to hold another one-day strike next week.

MOOSE JAW, Sask. — Brayden Schuurman scored a goal and 2 assists as Moose Jaw Warriors topped Lethbridge Hurricanes. Kalem Parker, Matthew Savoie, Brayden Yager, Atley Calvert and Denton Mateychuk all scored once for Moose Jaw.

MELFORT, Sask. — Some family members say they don't have faith in a coroner's inquest as Mounties who responded to a stabbing rampage on a Saskatchewan First Nation testified they found people bleeding and others dead.

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