CTV Saskatoon's most-read stories of 2024: Part One

As 2024 comes to a close, we’re taking a look back at some of the stories that made an impact on our readers. To be blunt — it’s been a year.

As 2024 comes to a close, we’re taking a look back at some of the stories that made an impact on our readers. To be blunt — it’s been a year.

Saskatchewan residents finally learned how Myles Sanderson came to die, surrounded by RCMP constables after a wrong-way chase down Highway 11 in September 2022, ending a three-day manhunt after Sanderson killed 11 people in a drug-addled spree in James Smith Cree Nation and Weldon.

Through two heart-wrenching inquests, James Smith community members grieved the losses and grilled police and corrections officials for insights into why Sanderson wasn’t caught sooner when he skipped out on his parole, and what can be done to prevent a similar tragedy from happening again.

We participated in two consequential elections, bringing major gains for the NDP in the legislature and significant changes to Saskatoon’s city council. Former councillor Cynthia Block became the first woman elected mayor of Saskatoon, and six first-time councillors were elected out of the city’s 10 wards.

Labour was hot again in 2024. Teachers, railroaders, library staff and of course, postal workers, all hit the picket lines this year seeking better wages and improvements to their working conditions.

These stories marked events that had a real impact in our community, but they weren’t the stories that readers engaged with the most — really sunk their teeth into.

In two parts, here are CTV Saskatoon’s top 10 most-read stories of 2024: