Humboldt

Take a step back in time to experience the wonder of old-world artistry. 

The Humboldt and District Museum is hosting a Heritage Skills Revival Demonstration of Wool Spinning with Patricia Clarke.  

The event takes place at the Museum of Saturday, September 13 from 10:00 am to noon.  

The Saskatchewan Roughriders (5-7-1) find themselves on the edge of the playoff picture with their winless skid falling to seven games following a 26-21 defeat to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (7-6) on Saturday.  

Six of the last seven games for the Roughriders have been decided by five points or less.  

Wild weather buffs got a treat on Saturday with a special screening of the summer blockbuster Twisters, along with a video presentation and talk by real life Tornado Hunter, Greg Johnson. Johnson made appearances at both the 2 pm and 7 pm screenings at Reel Attractions. 

Former fashion mogul Peter Nygard has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for his sexual assault convictions in Toronto.

His time behind bars will work out to 6.7 years after accounting for credit he received for time already spent in custody.

Nygard’s lawyer had argued for a six-year sentence, citing the 83-year-old’s age and poor health, while the Crown sought a sentence of 15 years.

Nygard was convicted of four counts of sexual assault last November but acquitted of a fifth count as well as one of forcible confinement.

Students are back in school, and another year is underway for the Horizon School Division. The 2024-25 school year comes complete with new in-school and in-office leaders and many capital projects and new initiatives. 

In terms of personnel, retirements and internal shifts have meant numerous school principals and principals taking up duties for the first time. 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may be bracing for an earful from his caucus when Liberal MPs gather in Nanaimo, B.C. today to plot their strategy for the coming election year.

It will be the first time he faces them as a group since MPs departed Ottawa in the spring.

Still stinging from a devastating byelection loss earlier this summer, the caucus is now also reeling from news that their national campaign director has resigned and the party can no longer count on the NDP to stave off an early election.

They can crawl just about anywhere, and their chirping can be a nuisance, but the positives of crickets can outweigh the negatives. 

While there is a wide diversity of crickets, the most common species found in Saskatchewan is the Fall Field Cricket. They are about an inch long, black in colour, and relatively robust with a very distinct chirp. 

According to Provincial Entomologist with the Ministry of Agriculture, Dr. James Tansey, crickets are very curious insects that can get into tight spaces looking for food. 

The provincial election is drawing closer with Saskatchewan residents voting for their MLAs this fall.

Getting all of the 800,000 registered voters to prepare for the election is a tough task, which Elections Saskatchewan is working on during the leadup.

Spokesperson Tim Kydd talks about some of the work they're doing over the next couple of months.

More money is going to childcare in Saskatchewan from both the provincial and federal governments in order to boost the recruiting and retaining of staff.

$8.4 million is coming from both governments in the form of early learning and child care workforce enhancement grants, with an additional $1 million adding up to a total of around $53 million to the Early Childhood Educator wage enhancement grant.

On average this change represents an extra $1 an hour increase to the ECE wage enhancement grant maximums for all certification levels.

SaskPower has announced they are creating a new subsidiary in SaskNuclear to manage their work on producing small modular reactors (SMR).

Their work is seeing one SMR built in the Estevan area, with more possibly to come following that unit's construction after 2030.

The new subsidiary will be focused on the regulatory and business processes involved in nuclear development.