Dan Zakreski

Dan Zakreski is a reporter for CBC Saskatoon.

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'A shocker for everyone': Driver of bus with 52 kids aboard charged with impaired driving

The driver of a chartered bus with 52 children aboard as been charged with impaired driving by Saskatoon police.

Disgraced Cree medicine man sentenced to 8 years in prison for multiple sexual assaults

Justice John Morrall sentenced Cecil Wolfe to eight years at Court of King's Bench in Saskatoon on Wednesday. The 64-year-old had pleaded guilty to the assaults in February.

Defence seeks to reopen James Swift murder trial to call fresh evidence

Lawyers defending two men in a Saskatoon murder trial say they've got new evidence about who killed James Swift in 2022.

Saskatoon church places worship leader, former mayoral candidate on leave after robbery, assault charges

A Saskatoon man charged with robbery and assault in North Battleford is now on leave from his position as worship leader at St. Paul's United Church in Saskatoon.

Former Saskatoon mayoral candidate charged with robbery, assault at motel in North Battleford, Sask.

A man who ran for mayor in Saskatoon in 2020 is one of three charged with armed robbery and assault after a robbery at a hotel in North Battleford.

AI feature at legal website can simplify complex Canadian cases for Sask. public

Saskatchewan is on the front lines of a project designed to use artificial intelligence to make sense of complicated legal rulings.

Man accused of assaulting Saskatoon judge was wanted on earlier assault charge at time of attack

Court documents show a bench warrant was issued for Brandon Burns, 30, one week before he was accused of assaulting a federal court judge in downtown Saskatoon.

Dramatic year-to-year drop in Saskatoon homicides has no simple explanation: police

Sasktoon has recorded only a single homicide in the first three months of this year, a dramatic drop from the same period in 2024, but police say there's no single reason to explain the decline.

Saskatoon federal judge robbed, seriously assaulted in downtown carjacking

A 30-year-old man from the Keeseekoose First Nation is charged with seriously assaulting a federal judge in Saskatoon, stealing his truck and then leading RCMP on a long chase.

B.C. judge orders Monette Farms from Swift Current, Sask. to pay $12-million fee to adviser in ranching deal

A British Columbia judge says a Saskatchewan farming magnate must honour a $12-million commitment to pay an adviser in a multimillion-dollar deal.