Weyburn

The Weyburn Beavers dropped a close one Thursday night at Tom Laing Park, falling 8–6 to the Fort McMurray Giants. Despite an early lead and a strong start from pitcher Owen McConnell, the Giants rallied back to get their first win of the season. 

A complaint from a concerned citizen led to an impaired driving arrest. 

Deputy Chief Shane St. John with the Weyburn Police Service uses the incident to shed light on the importance of Report Impaired Driving (RID) complaints, thanking the person who reported the driver. 

"We're thanking the public for a written complaint calling in suspicious driver, and they were dead on - this person was impaired by alcohol."

St. John explains sometimes these calls turn up drivers that are only distracted or otherwise not impaired, however, they are still significant. 

With plants sprouting from the ground and farmers confidently finished with seeding, tractors in the field might find some new friends popping up in their farmland this summer. Burrowing owls can be found in the Saskatchewan prairies during the summer, having returned from their trip down south over the winter.

They're now moving into their namesake burrows in prairie meadows, grasslands, and even farmers' fields.

Weyburn has become a temporary home to around 80 evacuees from the Creighton and Flin Flon areas. 

Read more: Weyburn, other communities welcome wildfire evacuees

After leaving their home in Creighton under the direction of the SPSA, Amanda MacQuarrie's family arrived at the Ramada hotel in Weyburn over the weekend.

The Liberal government has introduced legislation aimed at cutting down barriers to internal trade by recognizing provincial and territorial rules at the federal level.

Officials who briefed reporters this morning say the goal is to reduce the number of redundant standards across the country.

They say that, for example, a company that produces washing machines that meet a provincial energy efficiency standard won't have to meet a separate federal standard to sell outside that province.

In 2023, as Canada suffered through its worst-ever wildfire season, the federal government was looking at creating a national disaster response agency.

Two years later, the country is again facing another summer of wildfires. There is still no sign of such an agency, though governments are tapping the private sector to help with evacuations.

Ali Asgary, a York University professor of disaster and emergency management, said the work to establish a national agency is "unfortunately … not going as fast as our crises are going."

The bright lights, the meticulously maintained grassy green field with perfect white marking lines, the crack of pads and the cheer from fans; it’s hard not to enjoy football. With the excitement of the CFL regular season almost underway, children might look up to these players and feel inspired to join the sport themselves. Well thankfully, Weyburn Minor Football have opened registration for the 2025 season. Tiarra Schneider, program administrator with Weyburn Minor Football, says the excitement for the upcoming season is growing.  

An investigation was initiated last week by the Weyburn Police Service following a complaint of unwanted messages sent from another person. The investigation revealed the messages to be in breach of the senders' conditions.  

Deputy Chief Shane St. John explains they were arrested and charged with failing to comply with release conditions.  

Members of three Saskatchewan credit unions are being asked to cast their vote this week as Conexus, Cornerstone, and Synergy Credit Unions consider a proposed merger that would create the largest credit union in the province, and one of the largest in the country. 

Farmers across southeast Saskatchewan made significant progress in the past week, with 95 per cent of seeding now complete. That’s up from 80 per cent the week before and is on par with the region’s five-year average of 94 per cent. This is just behind the provincial mark of 97 per cent complete as well, with the southwest, west-central and northeast at 99 per cent complete.