Humboldt

It’s officially summer at Manitou Beach! 

So said Mayor Cheryl Hanson as she welcomed a capacity crowd to Manitou Springs Terrace for the opening concert of the Manitou Beach Busking Festival. 

On stage were Manitou Beach mainstay performing “brothers,” Brian Paul DG and Bruce Rawling, backed with the solid bass undertow of Hank “Butterdish.” 

Canadian varietal development system called a success story

Canada’s system of developing wheat varieties is both efficient and effective, says a University of Saskatchewan agricultural economist.

Australia invests much more into wheat genetics and improving varieties, but the yield gains are similar to Canadian results.

“In Australia, they’re spending three to five times what we are, right now, on wheat research and wheat genetics,” said Richard Gray, Canadian grain policy research chair at the U of S.

STARS communicated with the City of Humboldt that effective June 30, 2025 they will no longer be able to land directly at the HDHF. This was previously stated in the story about the rejection of privatization of the Humboldt Aerodrome. 

STARS issued the following statement:

Our Moo for Meat contest is in full swing and all you have to do is listen for our sound of the cow.

If you hear our friendly bovine mooing text us 'meat' for your chance to win! 

Congrats to this week's winner JoAnne Spence! 

You can enter in multiple times, every time you hear to moo, but you can only win once.

The future is looking bright for a new daycare facility in Lanigan as citizens gather on Munster Street by the site for a celebratory burger barbecue and groundbreaking ceremony. The event was held on Thursday at 6:00 pm.  

The area for the new site sits just north of the existing school facilities which will soon be vacated for parking and drop-off amenities for the new school and the daycare.  

Name That Tune was all 90's today

Blaze was in to play and had some fun. He tried to risk it but sadly it didn't pay off for him.

Listen to our conversation below. 

You could be next to play tune in Friday mornings to hear the song of the day.

The horse is out of the box! 

It sounds like a cute but cryptic metaphor. It’s literal after the unveiling of Humboldt’s latest public arts project just off Highway 5 in front of the Prairie Agricultural Machinery site. As part of the PAMI’s 50th anniversary celebration, community members and guests gathered outside on Thursday afternoon, June 26 for the reveal of the Iron Horse, a tribute to the vaunted Iron Triangle of regional manufacturers that has underpinned much of the region’s economy for decades.  

The Federal Court has approved a multi-billion-dollar class-action settlement for people who suffered abuse at federally run 'Indian hospitals' following out-of-court negotiations between Ottawa and Indigenous survivors.

The federal government ran 33 such hospitals between 1936 and 1981. The total compensation amount is expected to be between $3 billion and $5.3 billion.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Thursday that a 49-year-old Canadian has died while in its custody.

A detainee death notice from the agency, commonly known as ICE, said that Johnny Noviello was pronounced dead by the Miami Fire Rescue Department at 1:36 p.m. on June 23.

The agency said he was found unresponsive at 12:54 p.m. at a federal detention centre where he was being held pending deportation proceedings. Medical staff attempted CPR and defibrillation but were unsuccessful, the agency said.

It was a celebration of both the past and the future on Thursday afternoon at Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute (PAMI) with their 50th Anniversary celebrations.  

The day included demonstrations of some of the tests that have been done at PAMI over the years, an open house, tours and some food trucks.