A 49-year-old man has been charged after a woman was killed in a collision in December 2025.

Shortly before 7:40 a.m. on Dec. 16, police were called to the intersection of Kress Street and Longman Crescent after a pick-up truck struck a female pedestrian. The 26-year-old woman was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries and later died.

The driver, Kevin Rieger, remained at the scene and contacted police.

Following a nearly two-month investigation by the Regina Police Service Investigative Collision Analysis Reconstruction Team and consultation with the Crown, Rieger is charged with unlawfully operating a motor vehicle at a speed greater than reasonable and safe.

He is scheduled to appear in Regina Provincial Court on March 30, 2026.

Lawyers for imprisoned British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell are fighting the requested release of 90,000 pages related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and Maxwell, saying a law used to force the public release of millions of documents is unconstitutional.

The lawyers filed papers late Friday in Manhattan federal court to try to block the release of documents from a since-settled civil defamation lawsuit brought a decade ago by the late Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre against Maxwell. The Justice Department recently asked a judge to lift secrecy requirements on the files.

Maxwell’s attorneys said the Justice Department obtained the documents — otherwise subject to secrecy orders — improperly during its criminal probe of Maxwell. They said the documents include transcripts of over 30 depositions and private information regarding financial and sexual matters related to Maxwell and others.

Some records from the year-long exchange of evidence in the lawsuit battle were already released publicly in response to a federal appeals court order.

Maxwell’s lawyers say a law Congress passed in December to force the release of millions of Epstein-related documents violates the Constitution’s separation of powers doctrine.

“Congress cannot, by statute, strip this Court of the power or relieve it of the responsibility to protect its files from misuse. To do so violates the separation of powers,” wrote the lawyers, Laura Menninger and Jeffrey Pagliuca about the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

“Under the Constitution’s separation of powers, neither Congress nor the Executive Branch may intrude on the judicial power. That power includes the power to definitively and finally resolve cases and disputes,” the lawyers added.

The release of Epstein-related documents from criminal probes that began weeks ago has resulted in new revelations about Epstein’s decades-long sexual abuse of women and teenage girls. Some victims have complained that their names and personal information were revealed in documents while the names of their abusers were blacked out.

Members of Congress have complained that only about half of existing documents, many with redactions, have been made public even as Justice Department officials have said everything has been released, except for some files that can’t be made public until a judge gives the go-ahead.

Giuffre said Epstein had trafficked her to other men, including the former Prince Andrew, now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. She sued Mountbatten-Windsor in 2021, claiming that they had sex when she was 17.

He denied her claims and the two settled the lawsuit in 2022. Days ago, he was arrested and held in custody for nearly 11 hours on suspicion of misconduct in having shared confidential trade information with Epstein.

In a memoir published after she killed herself last year, Giuffre wrote that prosecutors told her they didn’t include her in the sex trafficking prosecution of Maxwell because they didn’t want her allegations to distract the jury.

Maxwell, 64, was convicted in December 2021 and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Epstein took his own life in a federal lockup in August 2019 as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges. Maxwell was moved from a federal prison in Florida to a low-security prison camp in Texas last summer after she participated in two days of interviews with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.

Two weeks ago, she declined to answer questions from House Oversight Committee lawmakers in a deposition conducted in a a video call to her federal prison camp, though she indicated through a statement from her lawyer that she was “prepared to speak fully and honestly” if granted clemency.

The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Saturday.

Brad Jacobs skipped the Canadian men’s curling team to a gold medal on Saturday at the Milan Cortina Olympics.

His Calgary-based team of Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert defeated Great Britain’s Bruce Mouat 9-6 in the final at Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium.

Jacobs scored three points in the ninth end and stole a point in the 10th when Mouat’s final shot to force an extra end was slightly wide.

It was a back-and-forth battle between two of the best teams in the world on the sport’s biggest stage.

Great Britain missed a couple of double-takeouts in the ninth end and then bumped a freeze attempt. That allowed Jacobs to pick out the opposing stone near the button to take a two-point lead.

Up 8-6 in the 10th end, Jacobs made a big-weight hit with his final throw — with just 7.2 seconds left on the clock — to force Mouat to make a tricky shot to score two to tie.

When Great Britain’s rock overcurled, Canada scored a single and the celebration was on. Brooms flew in the air and the players and coaches hugged by the bench.

The Canadians walked over to a section of friends, family and supporters to share the moment. Kennedy hopped on the boards with his arms extended in the air, and Jacobs joined him as he held the Canadian flag with outstretched arms.

It felt like a road game for the Canadian team as the near-capacity crowd was strongly pro-Mouat.

The young team from Scotland was boosted by their sections of chanting, flag-waving supporters, who would frequently bang their feet on the grandstands.

Canada opened with hammer, but it was wrested away with an early force. Mouat made a draw for a deuce in the second end and Jacobs answered with a pair of his own.

The top-ranked Mouat made a mistake in the fourth end when he ticked a guard and rolled out of the rings. Jacobs, who rose to No. 2 in the world with the win — had a chance to set up a steal, but his draw was heavy. Great Britain was able to hit for one.

Jacobs made an error when he tried to blank the fifth end with a double-takeout but he hit the rock on the nose for one.

Canada controlled the sixth end but still gave Mouat a chance for a cross-house double-takeout. He nailed it as his teammates pumped their fists in the air and the crowd roared.

There was little room for slight mistakes against Mouat’s side of Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie and Hammy McMillan.

When Kennedy’s runback in the seventh left a Great Britain stone biting the 12-foot ring, Mouat made a great come-around that forced the Canadians to one.

Jacobs forced right back in the eighth as Mouat took a 6-5 lead.

When Mouat’s freeze attempt in the ninth slightly bumped the stone near the button, Lammie couldn’t hide his frustration. He swiped at his broomhead and sent the pad flying onto the other sheet.

The teams were joined by bronze medallist Yannick Schwaller and his Swiss team at the medal ceremony.

It was the second straight Olympic silver for Mouat’s foursome. Great Britain lost to Sweden’s Niklas Edin in the 2022 final in Beijing.

Gallant won bronze with skip Brad Gushue that year. Jacobs skipped a different team to an Olympic title in 2014 at Sochi, Russia.

Hebert and Kennedy won gold with skip Kevin Martin at the 2010 Vancouver Games.

The family of a 12-year-old girl who was critically injured in the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge say she is showing remarkable progress as she fights for her life in BC Children’s Hospital.

Maya Gebala opened one of her eyes for the first time Saturday, her mom Cia Edmonds said in a social media video filmed in the girl’s hospital room.

“Her eye is open and she’s responding and moving around, and she is moving her hands,” Edmonds said in the update to the thousands of people who have been following her daughter’s recovery journey on Facebook.

Earlier this week, Maya’s dad David Gebala shared that the Grade 7 student had begun taking her own breaths.

“Every single day, you show us just how strong, determined, and incredible you truly are,” her dad wrote in an update on the GoFundMe page set up to support the victim and her family. “You continue to defy every expectation the doctors and surgeons once prepared us for. We were told we only had hours and yet here you are, still fighting, still with us.”

The fundraiser has garnered more than $450,000 in donations as of Saturday afternoon.

Gebala was shot in the head and neck and the outcome of her recovery is still unknown, according to her family.

In a GoFundMe update Saturday, relative Krysta Hunt thanked everyone for the prayers, words of support, food, donations, flowers and cards that have flooded Maya’s way since the Feb. 10 tragedy.

A Delta Air Lines flight from Houston to Atlanta made an emergency landing early Wednesday after a passenger tried to access the cockpit, the pilot told air traffic controllers.

Delta flight 2557, a Boeing 717 aircraft, had just taken off from Houston’s Hobby Airport when the pilot declared an emergency. Eight-five passengers and five crew members were on board, according to Delta.

“We had a passenger get up and try to access the cockpit,” the pilot can be heard in a radio recording with air traffic control captured by Broadcastify. “Can you coordinate and have security standing by?”

After confirming the cockpit was secure, he requested police and paramedics meet the plane when it landed.

“(He is) in cuffs in the back of the aircraft, but he did assault another passenger, so we would like that other passenger checked out,” the pilot told air traffic control.

In 2025, there were 1,621 unruly passengers reported to the Federal Aviation Administration. So far, in 2026, there have been 126.

Wednesday, the plane signaled an emergency using its transponder and landed back at Hobby Airport about 17 minutes after taking off. Emergency vehicles accompanied the plane to the gate.

“They are coming to the gate. The police are there waiting,” an air traffic controller told emergency responders. “Follow the aircraft to the ramp.”

Delta later told CNN that the passenger “approached crew and customers but did not make contact with or attempt to access the flight deck.”

“The safety of our customers and crew is paramount, and Delta has zero tolerance for unruly behavior,” the airline said in a statement. “We apologize to our customers for this experience and delay in their travels.”

The flight later took off again and arrived in Atlanta about 90 minutes behind schedule.

The FAA is investigating the incident.

Eight men have been sentenced to a combined 95 years behind bars in connection with a transnational smuggling plot involving massive amounts of liquid methamphetamine concealed in canola oil jugs.

Authorities said they thwarted four smuggling attempts between Canada and Australia from December 2022 to June 2023, with border agents seizing more than 2.5 tonnes of outbound meth at B.C. ports, all similarly packaged in 17-litre containers of canola oil.

Another 204 kilograms of crystal meth was seized from a separate shipment, police said.

The seizures led to a joint investigation involving the RCMP’s Federal Policing Pacific Region, Canada Border Services Agency and Australian Federal Police that ultimately resulted in the arrests of eight suspects in Australia.

“This case sends a clear message: organized crime has no place to hide,” said Nina Patel, Pacific regional director of the CBSA, in a statement. “Those who attempt to exploit our communities will be stopped through strong, unified action.”

All of the men—seven Australian citizens and one American—have since been convicted, with the last being handed his sentence Wednesday in a New South Wales court. Their names have not been released by authorities in either country.

Australian police said the seized drugs were bound for a clandestine drug laboratory in Melbourne, and estimated their street value at hundreds of millions of dollars.

Canadian authorities hailed the outcome of the investigation as a “significant milestone” in ongoing efforts to curb transnational organized crime.

“While the individuals arrested are not from Canada, this investigation shows that transnational crime networks are far-reaching, and our commitment to disrupting them does not stop at our borders,” said Stephen Lee, acting regional commander of the Federal Policing Pacific Region, in a statement.

SaskPower has signed an agreement to purchase electricity generated at K+S Potash Canada’s Bethune mine, the Crown corporation announced Wednesday.

Under the deal, SaskPower will buy up to 62 megawatts of natural gas-generated power beginning in late 2026 through to the end of 2034.

K+S is expanding a combined heat and power facility at the site, located about 31 kilometres northeast of Moose Jaw, to include three natural gas turbines and heat recovery steam generators.

The cogeneration facility will supply power and steam for the mining operation, while also providing electricity to SaskPower.

“This agreement is a win-win that will make additional reliable generation available to SaskPower while supporting the further development of our province’s world-leading potash industry,” said Jeremy Harrison, Saskatchewan’s minister responsible for SaskPower in a news release.

SaskPower president and CEO Rupen Pandya said partnerships with industry and independent power producers are key to maintaining reliable and affordable electricity as demand grows.

“Building and leveraging partnerships with industry and independent power producers is an important aspect of maintaining reliable and affordable power for all our customers,” he said in a news release.

K+S Potash Canada president Sam Farris said the project will help reduce the company’s greenhouse gas footprint, support potash production expansion and provide baseload power to the provincial grid.

The Bethune solution potash mine extracts crude salt that is processed into two types of potassium chloride.

Regina is digging out as winter reestablishes its hold on much of Saskatchewan.

Both residents and municipalities are beginning to respond to the snowfall which rapidly built up Tuesday night and into Wednesday.

Regions of central and southeastern Saskatchewan, including Regina, received between 25 and 35 centimetres of snow in this latest blast of winter – while other areas between 15 to 25 centimetres.

Darrel Hockley was out shoveling his Regina sidewalk Wednesday.

“I just hope this is it,” he joked. “I was hoping we were done because I like spring and summer because it’s easier to cut the lawn.”

On Wednesday morning, the City of Regina declared snow routes – meaning a parking ban will soon go into effect for streets in the city marked with a blue sign containing a white snowflake.

The parking ban goes into effect at 6 a.m. Feb. 19 until 6 a.m. Feb. 20. According to the City, the ban allows crews to plow the roads from curb to curb and helps ensure the roads are passable for emergency response vehicles.

Triage measures

City crews were out in full force with all 26 plows and graders, 12 sanders and eight sidewalk tractors working to clear streets.

“It’s all hands on deck,” city manager of seasonal roadway operations, Daryl Massier told CTV News. “This is our biggest snowfall of this season for sure. But t’s the same prep we have for five centimeters of snow or 25 centimetres of snow.”

As of 4 p.m. Wednesday, Regina Police Service said it had received reports of just four collisions since 12 a.m., with no injuries occurring as a result.

“The Regina Police Service would like to thank motorists for their care and attention throughout the day, as they navigated heavy snow and challenging driving conditions both in and outside of the city.,” the service said in a statement.

The City remains focused on its triage snow clearing efforts, plowing its high-priority roads and transit routes first.

“As soon as the snow stops, we start what we call our systematic plan,” Massier explained. “Basically what that is we use all of our contractors, all of our all of our resources for a systematic ploy starting with the category ones moving on to the twos, the threes, so on and so forth.”

Massier adds staying ahead of the snowfall is easier said than done.

“If it was ten centimeters of snow falling straight down, nice and fluffy, it would be easy. But you get even a few centimeters and an 80 kilometer wind and things just get plugged up,” he said.

The City hopes to begin residential street clearing, based on priority, over the next few days.

Air travel impacted

Crews at the Regina International Airport (YQR) were also busy clearing walkways and the runway so flights were clear for takeoff.

However, several flights Wednesday were delayed or cancelled and not just due to conditions in Regina.

“If we have a flight going into Calgary where they’ve got a storm and they can’t land, they’re not going to take off from here,” Kyla Antonini, the manager of public relations and customer experience for the Regina Airport Authority said. “The weather at the arrival airport matters as well and there’s wild weather all across Canada right now.”

YQR reminds all flyers to double check the status of their flights with the individual airlines prior to heading to the airport.

EVO Radio Network – Scheduled Maintenance Notice

EVO Radio will be conducting a network-wide server migration and infrastructure update beginning Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 3:00 AM, with work expected to be completed by Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 8:00 PM.

During this maintenance window, the following services may be temporarily offline or intermittently inaccessible at various points:

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• https://979thecowboy.evoradio.ca/

• https://101therockhound.evoradio.ca/

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• https://evomcorp.com/

• https://djspinderella.evomcorp.com/

Live Broadcasting

• Z103.5

• 979 The Cowboy

• 101 The Rockhound

• Classic 88.7 The Goat

Stream Relay Network

• All Stream Relay services will be unavailable during the migration.

Because this update involves server transfers, database installations, and name server changes, exact downtime periods cannot be guaranteed. Individual service interruptions may vary, with some components taking up to several hours to complete.

Our support and technical teams will work to keep all stations and websites online for as long as possible and will restore services immediately as each system becomes available. Broadcast services and station websites will be prioritized, followed by additional network services.

We appreciate your patience and understanding as we complete these upgrades, which are designed to improve performance, reliability, and long-term stability across the EVO Radio Network.

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🎉 Update Completed Successfully! 🎉

We are thrilled to announce that our scheduled network update has been completed without any issues! 🚀 All our broadcast stations, streams, and websites are now fully operational and running better than ever.

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