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The Red Deer Arts Council's Arts & Culture District Collab is inviting Central Albertans to take part in a free community conversation on the future of arts and culture.

“Audacity in the Arts: Reviving Cultural Relevance” will take place Sept. 16 at 6:30 p.m. at The Scott Block Theatre in downtown Red Deer.

The Cochrane Lions Rodeo has its new queen. Sonia van der Burgh was crowned the 2026 Cochrane Lions Rodeo Queen in August and is excited to represent the rodeo and its community over the next year.

“It definitely didn’t sink in until after the entire rodeo was done,” says van der Burgh. “You’re standing back there, they call your name, and then out you go into the arena. I was shocked. I definitely wasn’t expecting it.”

With more than 100,000 bodies of water across the province, the Saskatchewan RCMP are reminding drivers to be prepared in case their vehicle becomes submerged.

“Drivers and passengers are at significant risk when a vehicle enters the water,” said Cpl. Jamie Diemert, coordinator of the Saskatchewan RCMP Underwater Recovery Team (URT). “Water can pour in through windows and doors, causing entrapment, and the situation can quickly become life-threatening. Knowing and practising an escape plan with your family can prepare you for this kind of emergency.”

A report that could shed more light on why Manitoba's former Progressive Conservative government rejected calls to search a landfill for the remains of two murder victims is being withheld under the province's freedom of information law.

Records obtained by The Canadian Press show senior bureaucrats assembled a presentation for cabinet ministers on a potential search in the weeks before the government decided not to proceed with the idea in 2023.

Canadian scientists have contributed to exciting new findings from NASA’s Perseverance rover that may point to evidence of past life on Mars.

Researchers from the University of Winnipeg, University of Alberta, and Brock University analyzed rock samples collected from the Bright Angel formation, located in an area believed to be an ancient river channel that fed Jezero Crater billions of years ago. Their study, published in Nature, suggests the presence of a possible “biosignature,” a substance, feature, or pattern that could indicate past or present life.

The federal government is investing $28.7 million to equip Canadian workers with skills for a rapidly evolving clean energy sector and to expand artificial intelligence (AI) research capacity.

Moose Jaw-Lake Centre-Lanigan Member of Parliament Fraser Tolmie had this to say regarding Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre’s statements on the Temporary Foreign Worker program:

“In this riding, agricultural producers, processors, and other businesses rely on seasonal temporary labour to do what they do best. This type of work is why the Temporary Foreign Worker program was created in the first place, and in my view, it is working well.”

Temporary housing units will be available this fall for residents displaced from Denare Beach, as municipal leaders and provincial officials outline plans to support the community through the winter months.

When the fall sitting begins at the Legislature next month in Regina, the opposition New Democrats are intending to introduce legislation about the public notifications for emergency room closures.  

The Sask NDP said on Wednesday, would require a formal public notification of all emergency room closures in the province after months of analysis and testimonials from people who were unable to access emergency healthcare in rural communities. 

With fall well on the way, countless species of birds have already set off on a lengthy annual journey south for the winter.

Nature Saskatchewan is looking to encourage southwest residents to be mindful and keep an eye out for birds on their seasonal migration.

Jordan Rustad, conservation coordinator at Nature Saskatchewan, shared that she works at Last Mountain Bird Observatory, where a migration monitoring bird banding station is set up.