Humboldt

You’ve got one more weekend to take in the full-on spooky experience that is the Festival of Frights at the Humboldt Vintage Club just south of Humboldt. The experience has been running for a couple of weeks, and the response of those who have dared the haunted and cavernous space has been beyond enthusiastic, says Mike Yager with the Festival of Frights.  

“We’re very happy with the number of people who have come through the front doors and left screaming out the back,” Yager laughs.  

SaskPower is planning for a power outage for today, Tuesday, October 22, 2024

The outage will affect residents of Humboldt Lake (0 Block of Pape Drive) and residents southeast of Humboldt. Power services will be interrupted between 9 am and 2:00 pm.

SaskPower thanks customers for their patience and understanding. 

The Saskatchewan Provincial election is just a week away, with the province's parties looking at what they can do for the agriculture sector.

That includes working with other provinces and the federal government and responding to disaster years such as the droughts that have come up through the 2020s.

Trent Wotherspoon is one provincial candidate, who served as the Saskatchewan NDP's official critic for agriculture, finance, and transportation during his previous term.

The Chief Electoral Officer of Elections Saskatchewan says with more than 880 locations across 61 ridings and polls open today through Saturday and then again on Monday, there are plenty of opportunities to vote. The deadline for applying to vote by mail has come and gone, but Dr. Michael Boda says more than 32,000 voters have applied, which is less than in the 2020 election during the pandemic.

Humboldt residents will have a chance to get their small appliances and items fixed up at this Saturday’s Humboldt Repair Cafe. The event takes place at the Humboldt Community Gathering Place from 11 am – 3 pm. If you have a lamp that needs some love, some missing buttons or patching needed, The Repair Cafe is the place.  

After her party won a majority government in the New Brunswick election on Monday, Liberal Leader Susan Holt thanked all the women who came before her.

Flanked by her three young daughters on stage in Fredericton, Holt, the first female premier-designate in New Brunswick history, delivered a bilingual victory speech that paid tribute to female trailblazers in provincial politics.

The 47-year-old former business advocate and public servant led the Liberals to victory after a 33-day campaign, thwarting Blaine Higgs’s bid to secure a third term as Tory premier.

Liberal MP Sean Casey is the first to publicly confirm that he has signed a letter calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to resign, arguing it would be in the best interests of the country to let someone else take the reins. 

As an internal revolt brews, few Liberal MPs who are not in the cabinet are publicly defending the prime minister. The upcoming caucus meeting on Wednesday appears to present the most serious challenge to Trudeau's leadership to date.

Farmers in Manitoba are being called upon to aid critical research aimed at improving wheat production amid changing climate conditions. 

The University of Manitoba's "Mani Wheat Project," led by Dr. Cristina Rosell’s food science group, is gathering wheat samples from farmers to study the effects of pre-harvest sprouting, a significant issue caused by excessive rain and humidity before harvest.

In Loving Memory of
Josephine Krueger

Age: 
93 Years 

Of:
Regina, SK
formerly of
Humboldt, SK

Passed Away:
Sunday, October 20, 2024

A Private Family Service 
will be held at a later date.

This notice placed courtesy of
Malinoski & Danyluik Funeral Home & Crematorium
Phone: 682-1622

A woman from the RM of Blucher is facing a number of charges after a fatal incident on Highway 11 on Saturday night.

A truck driving north in the southbound lanes near Dundurn struck an SUV, killing two people.

Two women aged 50 and 20 from Lake Isle, Alberta were in the SUV and were pronounced deceased at the scene. 

Two occupants in the truck, both children were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.