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The Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) has concluded its 2025 June Division Meetings after covering more than 2,200 kilometres and visiting all six divisions across the province.

From June 16 to 19, SARM leadership and staff met with municipal representatives in North Battleford, Langham, Moose Jaw, Swift Current, Kipling and Kelvington. The annual tour gave rural leaders a chance to raise concerns, share solutions and hear updates directly from SARM.

After two weeks of public voting, Rosetown’s Kinsmen Park Accessible Playground Expansion has been named the final winner of a $25,000 grant through Sandbox Mutual’s ‘Communities at Play’ program.

The 2025-2026 schedule was released for all twelve Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League teams on Wednesday, after the SJHL gave a sneak peek with various home openers on Monday.

The Klippers open the season on Friday, September 19 in the Battlefords, then return home Saturday to host the North Stars and wrap up their annual opening home-and-home. Another key series comes the following weekend, with the Warman Wolverines visiting Kindersley on Friday, September 26, before the Klippers head to Warman the next night for a second straight home-and-home.

According to the weekly RCMP report, a dog bite incident resulted in two bylaw tickets being issued to the animal’s owner. The extent of the injuries was not disclosed.

Police also attended a single-vehicle collision on Highway 14 near Wilkie. The driver was transported to hospital by EMS with injuries described as non-life-threatening.

Officers conducted a wellbeing check at the request of a concerned family member and responded to a report of a person allegedly not complying with a court order. That complaint was found to be unfounded.

Residents across a wide stretch of Saskatchewan are being urged to keep their eyes on the sky Wednesday as yet another round of severe thunderstorms is forecast to develop through the afternoon and evening.

A low-pressure system pushing in from Alberta is expected to spark powerful storms from Leader and North Battleford through Saskatoon and down to Regina, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada.

A Kindersley man accused of sexually assaulting a teenager and improperly storing firearms is set to appear in court later this month as his case moves forward in Saskatoon.

Jeffery Houle, 38, is facing multiple charges, including sexual interference, sexual assault, and making sexually explicit material available to a person under 16. He also faces several firearms-related offences, including careless storage, unauthorized possession of a prohibited device, and possession of an unregistered firearm.

Our listeners certainly got "Up(!)" for the Shania Twain "Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under" concert promotion earlier this June. 

Pictured above, Kindersley’s Irene Rissling was the lucky winner of two tickets to the upcoming show in Moose Jaw from Temple Gardens Centre on July 7.

To carry out the contest Nick Cooper, took the Country 104 morning show on the road to different Mainline Automotive Group locations in Kindersley and Rosetown.

May inflation figures showed marginal improvements in some of the Bank of Canada's closely watched price figures — a step in the right direction, some economists say, but likely not enough to convince the central bank to cut interest rates.

The annual pace of inflation held steady at 1.7 per cent last month as cooling shelter costs helped tame price pressures, Statistics Canada said Tuesday.

UPDATE: June 25, 2025, 7:00 AM

The work originally planned for Tuesday was rescheduled to Wednesday in Kindersley. All of the below information is still applicable, the outage taking place between 9:30 to 11:30 AM for parts Rosedale in Kindersley.

The update was provided Tuesday morning at 8:30.

ORIGINAL: June 23, 2025, 5:00 PM

SaskPower announced before the weekend that the Town of Kindersley has a power outage set for Tuesday.

The Liberal government will table a bill this fall introducing stricter bail conditions and sentencing for some crimes, particularly those involving organized crime, human trafficking, home invasion and car theft, Justice Minister Sean Fraser said in an interview.

"It's perhaps obvious, given the tenor around the criminal justice system, that reforms are in order," Fraser told The Canadian Press.