Estevan

The Om Yoga Festival is set to take over Rotary Park-Woodlawn Regional Park in Estevan this weekend with a full lineup of activities, workshops, and community connections.

People in Carlyle may have received a brief, unplanned outage for natural gas services yesterday as SaskEnergy was working nearby.

In the town of Carlyle on the afternoon of September 4, SaskEnergy was conducting maintenance work on the Carlyle Town Border station, which resulted in the outage.

The service has since been restored; however, SaskEnergy Technicians are now going door-to-door to assist customers in relighting and safely restarting their appliances and performing system safety checks.

The Estevan Police Service posted a few recent calls they received mid-week from the local community.

One report described a female yelling in a parking lot of a business in the east end of the city. Officers spoke with the individual, and she was cautioned about her behaviour before being sent on her way.

Officers were present for a well-being check on an elderly family member. Members made contact with the person and determined that he was safe and well.

The NextAcre Real Estate Grain Rush is back for harvest season 2025, and the latest stop brought Discover Estevan, Sun 102, Country 106.1, and CJ1150 out to Benson to meet with Honan Farms.

Tristan from Honan Farms said the crew is about a third of the way through harvest, with peas and durum wrapped up. “It would be nice to have a warm meal in the combine right about now,” he shared, adding that the durum crop was a bit of a challenge this year because of weeds and wet conditions.

The Estevan area is proving to be a key site in understanding what life looked like after the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Royal Saskatchewan Museum curator of paleontology Ryan McKellar and his team spent part of their summer working along coal seams near Estevan, uncovering tiny pieces of amber, fossilized tree resin, that date back roughly 60 to 62 million years.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Thursday human smuggling across the border with Canada is getting worse — and that traffickers are looking north following the Trump administration's crackdown at the border with Mexico.

"The northern border, it always has been, but it's gotten much worse, much more prevalent because … it's a multibillion-dollar business, the smuggling of drugs, guns and humans," Bondi said during a news conference in Tampa, Fla.

Messages of condolences and support poured in for a Manitoba First Nation after a mass stabbing on Thursday, including from a First Nation in Saskatchewan that experienced one of its own exactly three years earlier.

Police say eight people were found severely injured in two homes on Hollow Water First Nation, northeast of Winnipeg.

An 18-year-old woman died while the suspect, her 26-year-old brother, died after the stolen vehicle he was driving collided with a vehicle driven by a police officer responding to the attack.

Southeast Saskatchewan producers are catching up in the fields after a stretch of favourable conditions, but harvest remains behind the seasonal average.

Harvest in the region is now 33 per cent complete, behind the five-year average of 41 per cent and the 10-year average of 43 per cent.

Reporters say yields appear decent so far, with more detailed data expected in next week’s report.

Environment and Climate Change Canada kept track of the temperatures and rainfall levels over the summer, collecting all that data to compare some of the recent conditions to years past.

Meteorologist Crawford Luke says that they look at the past three months to sum up their meteorological summer.

"We kind of define our seasons from June 1st through August 31st. It just kind of makes for neater housekeeping when it comes to climate data and stuff."

A brother and sister are dead and several others, including a Mountie, injured after a mass stabbing Thursday on a Manitoba First Nation.

Police say the woman, 18, was among those stabbed by her brother, 26-year-old Tyrone Simard, in the early morning attack on the Hollow Water First Nation northeast of Winnipeg.