Weyburn

A slightly above average number of calls during the week of July 13th to 20th for the Weyburn Police Service saw 91 responses by its members, including 13 requests for well-being or mental health checks. According to the weekly report, the majority of those incidents were resolved without needing further intervention. Two people, however, were taken to the hospital for additional care.

The founding CEO of the five-year-old organization will stay on until January 2026

Seeds Canada is looking for a new chief executive officer after Barry Senft announced he is stepping down from the role he’s held for about four years.

Senft will continue to serve as CEO until the end of January 2026.

“I think after five years, it’s time for new leadership,” he said during the 2025 Seeds Canada conference in Quebec City.

He said someone with more seeds experience would make sense now that the organization is up and running.

As five former Canadian world junior hockey players await a ruling in their sexual assault trial, legal experts say videos shown in court of the complainant saying she was OK with what had happened highlight a broader misunderstanding of consent and sexual assault law in Canada.

Two cellphone videos in which the woman says she’s “OK with this” and that “it was all consensual” were presented as evidence during the trial of Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dube, and Callan Foote.

Several Conservative MPs are criticizing the Crown's approach to prosecuting two key organizers of the Freedom Convoy protests, with the party's deputy leader calling it an act of "political vengeance."

Tamara Lich and Chris Barber were convicted of mischief in April for their roles in organizing the demonstration, which blockaded streets around Parliament Hill for more than three weeks in early 2022.

Barber was also convicted of counselling others to disobey a court order.

Three players from the Weyburn Soccer Association's U-15 Division 1 Celtics team took the trip of a lifetime this spring, attending the Real Madrid training camp in Madrid, Spain, from May 24th to 31st, 2025.

Lexington Roy, Ranson Jordens, and Ethan Thiedig were selected for the camp during a Real Madrid camp held in Edmonton in the summer of 2024. 

The City of Weyburn has advised that 5th Street NE has been closed due to a watermain break between Souris Avenue and Bison Avenue. The closure took effect just after 11 a.m. and is expected to be in place for the rest of the day. 

The closure comes as crews are already working on watermain infrastructure to the south of where the break took place. Souris Avenue is closed between 4th Street NE and 5th Street NE, along with the intersection of 5th Street and Souris Avenue. 

Motorists are asked to avoid the area when possible and to follow all of the signage in the area. 

The long-simmering tensions between the village of Richmound and the followers of self-proclaimed "Queen of Canada" Romana Didulo boiled over last week, leading to the indefinite closure of the village office and a physical altercation with RCMP that resulted in one arrest. 

Sixty kilometers south of Weyburn on Highway 35 is the hamlet of Oungre. According to the 2021 Census of Population, the hamlet of Oungre is home to 10 people. However, a lot more than ten people enjoy the amenities of the Oungre Memorial Regional Park (OMRP), located just north of town.  

A new, dedicated fundraising committee will be helping the Weyburn Theatre Community Service Co-operative. Announced by the president of the co-operative, Ryan Janke, the committee will be looking to help bring the community-driven project to completion. The announcement also comes on the heels of the announcement of a major donation by the Weyburn Young Fellows last week, and the pouring of the foundation Friday morning.  

Work on the rehabilitation of Highway 18 has been underway for a few years, and construction is underway on one of the final stages, the stretch between Estevan and Outram. Provincial Highways Minister David Marit stated the crews are on-site, and the paving is expected to be completed this year. Once it is wrapped up, it will be what he calls a major upgrade for the highway from Estevan to the junction with Highway 6.