Regina police have charged four people, including a youth, following an alleged robbery in the city.

Officers were called at about 5:30 p.m. on Monday to the 2300 block of 12th Avenue for a report of a robbery.

Police say a 15-year-old boy told officers he and an adult woman were approached by a group of individuals who allegedly threatened to shoot him if he did not hand over his jacket. The suspects then discharged bear spray at the teen before fleeing with the jacket.

At around 5:45 p.m. officers arrested three people matching the suspects’ descriptions. A fourth suspect was located a short time later.

A 22-year-old, a 20-year-old and an 18-year-old are all charged with robbery and made their first court appearances on Feb. 17.

A 16-year-old boy is also charged with robbery. He made his first appearance in Regina youth court at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday.

The investigation is ongoing.

Regina Crime Stoppers is asking the public for help after an attempted fraud and mischief incident at a local business.

On Jan. 19, 2026, two men visited a business on the 500 block of 1st Ave. E and installed card skimmers — devices used to steal credit or debit card information. The business had been targeted in similar incidents over the past year.

Police say other communities near Regina have seen comparable incidents in recent weeks, and the suspects may be linked to multiple occurrences.

The first suspect is described as Middle Eastern, with a dark complexion, black scraggly beard and mustache, dark eyes, and black hair. He is of average height and heavier build, wearing jeans, a black hoodie with a chest logo and the hood up, and a grey-and-blue plaid button-up jacket.

The second suspect is also described as Middle Eastern, with a medium complexion, full black beard and mustache, along with dark eyes and hair. He is slightly taller than the first suspect, of average build, and was wearing grey sweatpants, a grey Reebok hoodie with the hood up, and a dark jacket with a logo on one breast.

Crime Stoppers is urging anyone with information to come forward.

Callers do not have to identify themselves, and calls are not traced or recorded.

If you know any information leading to an arrest call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-tips (8477)

Saskatchewan RCMP have arrested and charged a man in connection to a string of break-ins across more than 40 communities over the past seven years.

According to an update from the police service issued Tuesday, Michael Arsenault, 57, has been charged with 62 counts of breaking and entering, 12 counts of attempting to break and enter with intent, and one count each of possession of property under and over $5,000.

Arsenault is scheduled to appear in Regina Provincial Court on Wednesday, Feb. 18.

In May 2025, RCMP launched a probe into a series of property crimes across the district. Investigators found 74 reported break-ins they believed were connected. The incidents occurred from September 2019 to February 2026 across a total of 43 communities — from Hudson Bay to Torquay.

The Town of Willow Bunch had its town office broken into on Jan. 28, 2021. Five years later, the town’s administrator Sharleine Eger said she still remembers the aftermath.

“It was my assistant, when she came to work she was the first to open up the cash boxes, and the safe room,” Eger explained.

“That shock of seeing everything empty. Every once in a while that creeps back into your head and you’re like ‘Is everything okay?’”

After speaking with police at the time of the incident, Eger said all signs showed the break and enter was far from unique to the town.

“Even before and after it happened to us, we saw different snippets on social media or on the news, telling about other communities’ experiences similar to ours and we always wondered is it the same person,” she said.

In a statement to CTV News, the Town of Foam Lake reported it was only aware of two of the four local buildings that were reportedly broken into.

Although no items of significance were taken, the town said it still cost the municipality a financial burden.

“I think what often gets overlooked in situations like this is that even when the financial loss is limited, the disruption can be considerable,” read the town’s statement.

“Small communities feel the impact in other ways, including damaged doors and locks, the need to replace hardware and rekey buildings, time spent reviewing footage and inventorying items, and the administrative burden of reporting and follow up. It creates strain on already limited local resources.”

According to RCMP, a total of $50,000 had been stolen. Other items taken included debit/credit cards, gift cards, alcohol and antique coins.

The types of buildings targeted included local businesses, town offices, post offices, and community centres. RCMP noted it was not aware of any homes being broken into.

“At the core of this investigation are the communities who have been impacted. This may not be a violent crime, but it’s a crime that is extremely damaging to those communities who lost valuables and funds and felt their safety has been compromised,” Insp. Jillian McLaren, Saskatchewan RCMP South District Operations Officer, said in the update.

“I’m incredibly proud of the work done by our team for working together, connecting the dots, laying charges, and restoring a sense of security for these communities.”

Since the break-in, Eger said the Town of Willow Bunch has increased its security systems in hopes of preventing similar situations.

“When you have a small town mentality you’re always concerned about the cost right, or you tend to be more reactive than proactive. Why fix what isn’t broken if things are working, leave it as such, right?” she said.

“But in today’s world I think it is really something that everybody has to start considering and putting those safeguards into place.”

McLaren also encourages businesses and town offices to be cautious.

“We can’t speculate why these facilities were targeted. What we can say that is property crime is a crime of opportunity though,” McLaren told reporters on Tuesday.

“We really are encouraging folks to follow, some things and that’s ensuring that their properties are locked, that windows are locked now to make sure things are out of sight, especially for businesses. When we talk about businesses that have keys associated, things of value, are were put away, and also businesses really limiting the cash that they’re keeping on site.”

The list of affected communities include:

1. September 6, 2019 – Briercrest, SK – three public buildings 
2. October 24, 2019 – Lipton, SK – one public building 
3. October 31, 2019 – Cupar, SK – two public buildings
4. November 7, 2019 – Spy Hill, SK – two public buildings 
5. November 14, 2019 – Qu’Appelle, SK - one public building 
6. December 5, 2019 – Torquay, SK - three public buildings  
7. June 12, 2020 – Sceptre, SK – one public building
8. July 10, 2020 – Val Marie, SK – one public building
9. July 29, 2020 – Imperial, SK – three public buildings
10. September 30, 2020 – Griffin, SK – two public buildings
11. November 25, 2020 – Rush Lake, SK – one public building
12. November 30, 2020 – Muenster, SK – one public building
13. November 30, 2020 – Lake Lenore, SK – two public buildings
14. January 8, 2021 – Archerwill, SK – one public building
15. January 28, 2021 – Willow Bunch, SK –  two public buildings
16. March 13, 2021 – Radville, SK – two public buildings
17. April 16, 2021 – Loreburn, SK – four public buildings
18. October 15, 2021 – Wood Mountain, SK – one public building
19. March 19, 2022 – Glenbain, SK – one public building
20. May 20, 2022 – Parkbeg, SK – one public building
21. June 17, 2022 – Cedoux, SK – one public building
22. August 12, 2022 – Watrous, SK – one public building
23. September 6, 2022 – Consul, SK – one public building
24. September 28, 2022 – Humboldt, SK – one public building
25. March 31, 2023 – Lampman, SK – one public building
26. April 26, 2023 – Vanguard, SK – three public buildings
27. June 29, 2026 – Eatonia, SK – one public building
28. June 27, 2024 – Manitou Beach, SK – one public building
29. July 11, 2024 – Herschel, SK – one public building
30. August 2, 2024 – Rama, SK – one public building
31. January 10, 2025 – Wadena, SK – one public building
32. March 31, 2025 – Okla, SK – one public building
33. March 31, 2025 – Preeceville, SK – one public building
34. April 1, 2025 – Canora, SK – two public buildings
35. April 2, 2025 – Foam Lake, SK – four public buildings
36. May 9, 2025 – Carlyle, SK – three public buildings
37. June 2, 2025 – Eston, SK – four public buildings
38. July 1, 2025 – Hudson Bay, SK – one public building
39. September 13, 2025 – Whitewood, SK – one public building
40. October 29, 2025 – Biggar, SK – three public buildings
41. December 16, 2025 – Theodore, SK – one public building
42. January 19, 2026 – Beechy, SK – one public building
43. February 6, 2026 – Wynyard, SK – one public building

The Government of Saskatchewan says it has reached a settlement with Shercom Industries.

In a Tuesday announcement, the government said it agreed to pay $4.8 million to Shercom Industries, a Saskatoon-based tire recycling business.

“Shercom Industries accepts this payment in full and final satisfaction of its claims and acknowledges that it will have no further claims related to any matters raised in the lawsuit,” the government said in the announcement.

The province did clarify the settlement is not “an admission of liability” by the province or any of the defendants in the case – adding that it believes the move “to be in the best interests of Saskatchewan residents and the tire recycling industry.”

All remaining details surrounding the settlement are considered confidential.

In a response to CTV News, Shercom Industries shared its reaction to the decision.

“Shercom is relieved that this matter is finally at end and we are prepared to move on. We are not prepared to comment further.”

The case of Shercom Industries became a multi-year saga that saw Shercom effectively go from holding a monopoly over used tire recycling in Saskatchewan to being essentially shut out of the process entirely.

The Tire Stewardship of Saskatchewan (TSS), which is responsible for recycling tires in the province, struck a deal in December 2022 with American-based Crumb Rubber Manufacturers Co. (CRM) and in July 2025 with Ontario-based Emterra Tire Recycling Ltd. to handle recycling operations in the northern and southern regions of the province.

CRM would later withdraw from the deal in April 2025.

The changed dynamics pushed Shercom to lay off dozens of workers after negotiations with TSS failed in the months that followed.

The company later opted to shut its recycling plant down.

The Saskatchewan NDP repeatedly criticized the government and Ministry of Environment throughout the saga for not supporting a Saskatchewan company.

In November 2024, the company filed a statement of claim at Saskatoon Court of King’s Bench, seeking at least $10 million in damages against the Government of Saskatchewan, the Tire Stewardship of Saskatchewan (TSS) and its CEO.

The statement of claim argued Shercom was unfairly excluded from a request for proposals to award a second tire recycler, further claiming the RFP allegedly said it was seeking a “second processor” and not a “second location.”

According to the lawsuit, Shercom believed it was excluded from the process.

Regina police have charged an 18-year-old man after he allegedly fled police Monday morning.

Around 6:45 a.m., police were called to the area of Albert Street and 25th Avenue after a vehicle was reported to be swerving and hitting curbs while traveling in the area.

When police arrived, the vehicle was no longer in the area.

Investigators later found the vehicle near Regency Crescent and 3rd Avenue North and attempted a traffic stop. The lone occupant drove erratically for a short distance before crashing into a fence on the 2900 block of Avonhurst Drive.

Officers did not pursue the vehicle.

The suspect fled on foot through a creek and residential area before hiding under a vehicle.

A Regina Police Service canine unit tracked the suspect, who was taken into custody without further incident on the 600 block of Robinson Street.

The suspect was charged with evading police, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, obstructing a peace officer, hit and run and breaching a curfew.

He will make his first appearance on these charges in Regina Provincial Court, with a future court date to be set.

According to Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) data released by the Saskatchewan NDP, one patient at the Royal University Hospital (RUH) in Saskatoon, spent over 100 hours in the emergency room.

A screenshot of a provincial capacity report dated Feb. 13 at 8 a.m. shows reported wait times of 81 hours at Saskatoon’s St. Paul’s Hospital, 67 hours at Regina General Hospital, 23 hours at Regina’s Pasqua Hospital and 103 hours at RUH in Saskatoon.

Speaking to reporters Tuesday morning, NDP MLA Jacqueline Roy said the numbers reflect broader pressures in the health-care system.

“We know that people are having difficulty accessing family physicians and nurse practitioners,” she said. “That pushes everything to a critical state. People become sicker, then they go to the ER and it’s overloaded.”

However, the SHA said the figures represent only part of the picture.

In a statement, the health authority said it continuously monitors emergency department and acute-care capacity across the province to support system-wide decision-making, including patient transfers.

The SHA cautioned that the figures circulating publicly are taken from internal capacity documents and do not reflect how long it takes to see an emergency room physician. Instead, the data represents the total time a patient spends in the emergency department, which varies depending on the severity of their condition and the care required.

The authority said it remains committed to meeting patient needs as close to home as possible and thanked staff and physicians for their ongoing work.

Roy said ongoing discussions with health care workers are important, but argued the current system is failing both staff and patients. She added that creating more full-time positions would help address staffing shortages.

“We will continue these consultations, we’re not going to do them quickly, we’re going to take our time to make sure that we get it right,” she said. “I know they’ve said being treated with respect and dignity is also important to them staying in this province. This is both a health care system that has too many patients and not enough people to meet those demands.”

Saskatchewan is set to be hit by not one, but two storm systems as winter returns following an extended period of mild weather.

A large system from Alberta is forecast to bring 25 to 35 centimetres of snow to parts of the province, while a Montana low is expected to produce freezing rain, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) says.

4:20 PM

ECCC warns that a Montana low is slated to bring periods of freezing rain to certain regions of southeast Saskatchewan and southwest Manitoba.

The freezing rain is expected to transition to snow by Tuesday evening.

3:40 PM

A blowing snow advisory is issued for majority of the province’s southern and central regions.

ECCC warns of strong easterly winds, with gusts of up to 80 km/h, drastically reducing visibility before slowly diminishing Tuesday evening.

3:30 PM

An orange snowfall warning is issued for an area stretching from Meadow Lake and down to Estevan. Within this area, snowfall accumulations are likely to be in the 25 to 35cm range by Thursday morning.

The snowfall is expected to taper off through Wednesday night.

Family members are trying to come to terms with an Edmonton crash that killed a Calgary father and badly injured his daughter.

The three-vehicle collision happened on Anthony Henday Drive near the Wye Road overpass on Feb. 8.

Victoria Fortuna, 21, a student at MacEwan University, had blown a tire.

She pulled over and called her mom, her dad and the Alberta Motor Association.

Her mom Colleen was flying back to Calgary from Phoenix, Ariz.

Her dad Paul was in Edmonton for business – and immediately went to help Fortuna change her tire.

“They were getting the equipment out of [Fortuna’s Chevrolet Suburban] and a Jeep Grand Cherokee driven by a 21-year-old plowed into the back of Suburban, which then hit Fortuna and her father,” said Laurel Cousens, Fortuna’s aunt.

Paul, 53, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Passing motorists stopped to check on Fortuna and provide first aid.

“A doctor and a nurse were able to perform life-saving measures on Fortuna, which helped stem the bleeding,” Cousens said.

Despite the help from Good Samaritans, Fortuna was badly injured, and both her legs had to be amputated.

“She’s had two surgeries so far,” Cousens said. “They have said that she may need another surgery in the short term.”

Fortuna was in an induced coma at the University of Alberta hospital, but is now awake.

“She’s dealing with such horrendous injuries,” Cousens said. “And she just wants a hug from her dad – and she can’t have that – and it’s heartbreaking to watch.”

Cousens says Fortuna and her father had a close relationship, both sharing a love for the Edmonton Oilers.

“At the time Victoria was born, the first person to hold her was Paul,” Cousens said. “So, the first face that Victoria saw was her dad’s. They had a special bond. They had the same sense of humour.”

Cousens says Fortuna is a fan of the arts and loves theatre, film and television.

She has had background roles in shows such as The Last of Us, Heartland and Billy the Kid.

Fortuna also walked in the Calgary Stampede Parade last summer.

“Because of the nature of Victoria’s injuries, she will never regain the life she had,” Cousens said. “But we are going to do everything we can to give her the best life and help support her ... And to regain the independence she had worked so hard for.”

The family has set up a GoFundMe campaign,

raising nearly $200,000 for medical expenses.

Cousens says the money will be used to widen doorways in Fortuna’s mom’s home, build accessible ramps, construct an accessible bathroom and pay for an altered vehicle.

Fortuna is receiving physiotherapy and rehabilitation for her injuries.

Paul’s funeral was held in Calgary on Tuesday.

Both Fortuna and her younger sister attended the funeral virtually through Zoom.

The family is asking for the husband and wife motorists who stopped to help Fortuna to reach out so they can personally thank them.

At this time, no charges have been laid in the crash.

The family says they want to see charges laid against the 21-year-old driver of the Cherokee, who suffered minor injuries.

“This is not the time for anger,” Cousens said. “It’s hard to put that aside, because it is so unfair and so unnecessary.”

Cousens thanked the lead detective in the case for answering questions at the hospital on his day off.

She is now calling on stricter enforcement measures for reckless drivers throughout Alberta.

“How many people have to die? How many more tragic, fatal accidents must happen before something is done?” she said.

Mounties, meanwhile, are reminding motorists to travel with caution.

“If you do need to pull to the side of the road for an emergent situation, pull over as much as possible. If safe consider pulling onto the grass,” said Alberta RCMP Cpl. Troy Savinkoff.

“If you are having mechanical issues or appear to be experiencing a flat, take the next off ramp and pull off of the freeway as soon as possible.”

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