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A food documentary featuring a restaurant nestled in Cypress Hills will be showcased provincially and nationally this week.

Flat Out Food's fifth season and fifth episode will spotlight Lakeview Grill on CityTV Saskatchewan, Wednesday at 10 p.m. and CityTV in Canada at 11:30 a.m. 

The episode marks the first time the TV series has visited Cypress Hills. The three-day visit was inspiring for Adrian Halter, the producer and director of Flat Out Food.

Alberta RCMP are reminding motorists to drive with caution this weekend as thousands of volunteers take to the province’s highways for an annual cleanup campaign.

The cleanup is scheduled for Saturday, May 3, between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. An alternate date of May 10 has been set in case of poor weather.

More than 12,000 people are expected to take part, including roughly 8,000 youth from 4-H clubs, Junior Forest Wardens and other youth organizations. Volunteers will wear safety vests, and warning signs will be placed near cleanup zones.

If you’re looking for a cat who brings both charm and comedy into your home, Dean is ready to be your guy. This one-year-old neutered male is currently available for adoption through KC Rescue in Unity, and he’s already winning hearts with his larger-than-life personality.

Conservative MP Damien Kurek is set to step aside to allow Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to run in a byelection in the Battle River—Crowfoot riding in Alberta.

Kurek says he is "temporarily" stepping aside as MP for the riding, which he has held since 2019.

The Conservative party confirms that Poilievre will run in the Battle River—Crowfoot byelection once it's called.

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The St. Mary River Irrigation District (SMRID) is notifying irrigators that they are now accepting water orders.

For the 2025 irrigation season, water allocation will remain at 12 inches at the farm gate based on the recent Irrigation Water Supply Forecast from Alberta Agriculture and Irrigation.

Crews have started flushing lines and are charging the system for water startup, expected to be available across the entire district by May 5th to 9th.

The 2025 CFL Draft took place back on Tuesday, the league's Global Draft taking place right before it.

After the 2024 draft I made a point to grab my write-handed glove and make a few jot-notes on the likes of Ajou Ajou, Richard Aduboffour, and Matt Hayball. That turned into a fun blog, available below, as now it's time to run it back with another draft day passed.

Crime rates in rural communities are consistently higher than in urban centres, suggests new data presented in a Statistics Canada report -- a long-term trend one criminologist says is unsurprising.

The report, published Tuesday, found the rate of police-reported crime in rural Canadian communities was 34 per cent higher than the urban rate. That disparity was especially pronounced across the Prairies and in rural British Columbia.

In the last issue we discussed warm and cold clouds, and we learned that most of our local precipitation is produced in cold clouds, which means that most of it starts off as snow, even in the summer.

This week we are going to look at the different types of precipitation we experience and examine how each type forms.

Next on our list of precipitation types is sleet or ice pellets.

This form of precipitation is created when raindrops freeze in the air before they reach the ground.

The Kindersley Kobras football team is getting together this weekend for their annual springtime bottle drive.

The team is asking residents to leave their bags of bottles and cans out front of their house for easy pickup. Anybody who can't facilitate a pickup but still wants to donate can drop their recycling off at SARCAN and donate it to the team account.

All funds raised will be going towards new equipment for the team. Recent bottle drives have brought in anywhere between $3500-$4500.

After an exciting victory over the Georgia Swarm, the Saskatchewan Rush are moving on in the NLL playoffs! 

One of the biggest contributors to the 13-9 victory was Rush transition player Jake Boudreau. With four goals and an assist, Boudreau said it was a team effort that led to the win.