CBC Saskatchewan and CBC Saskatoon won seven Best Canadian Local awards at the 2023 Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) awards. The RTDNA awards recognize excellence in digital and broadcast journalism.
The Indian Head Rockets, an all-Black team, played in Indian Head, Sask., in the '40s and '50s. Now player Nat Bates has been inducted into the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame.
Nat Bates, who served on the Richmond City Council when the six-mile stretch of 580 was constructed in 1980, says the person who really deserves credit for the highway has never gotten his rightful due. Now, at age 91, Bates has kicked off a community effort to recognize the man who first got the project off the ground nearly half a century ago.