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As farmers work on the harvest, agriculture ministers from across Canada gathered in Winnipeg this week for the annual Federal-Provincial-Territorial (FPT) meeting. The annual event hosted by Manitoba Agriculture Minister Ron Kostyshyn and Federal Agriculture Minister Heath MacDonald provided a key platform to discuss shared challenges, policy priorities, and the future of Canadian agriculture. 

After years of planning and construction, Rosetown Kid Kare has officially moved into a new building that expands its capacity and provides upgraded facilities for children and staff.

The centre increased its licensed spaces from 63 to 90, serving children from six weeks to six years, with an additional before-and-after school program for older kids.

It's the grand finale at Flatlanders Speedway just west of Kindersley this weekend — for cars meant to be in one piece at least.

While the Ultimate Enduro will end the season on September 28, the final actual race day at Flatlanders Speedway is taking place this weekend. It's another two day show starting Saturday, September 13 at 3:00 PM and continuing into Sunday, September 14 at 1:00 PM.

On tap for classes are modifieds, street stocks, legends, hobby stocks, and truck stock. Mini sprints and kid mods will be in action, and also the ever popular run your junk class.

A Saskatchewan court on Thursday heard detailed testimony about the hiring, housing and immigration arrangements of the woman at the centre of an ongoing human trafficking trial. One of the two defendants, Haider, who owned the restaurant Empire Diner in Gull Lake and Bob's Diner in Elrose, took the stand

The complainant first applied online for a cook position in the Gull Lake restaurant in September 2022. The court was told she participated in two phone interviews with the restaurant’s operator, who later consulted with his business partners about her as a possible candidate.

Police are looking into a break and enter in Gull Lake.

On Wednesday, Swift Current Rural RCMP followed up on a report of a break-in at a home on Queens Avenue.

Police say sometime between 10:00 am and 6:00 pm, someone broke into the home.

A sum of cash, keys, and a BB gun were reported stolen

RCMP are continuing to investigate.

 Macklin RCMP say the sudden death of a child reported last week is not considered suspicious.

Between Sept. 2 and 8, officers also opened investigations into a fraud complaint, a break and enter at the Macklin Golf Clubhouse sheds, and a suspicious person near a business.

Police responded to a disturbing the peace complaint that was later deemed unfounded, and assisted Emergency Medical Services with a patient.

Officers also received reports of trespassing and property damage at Kinette Park, though there was insufficient evidence to move forward in those cases.

Volleyball is one of several high school sports beginning their season alongside the school year. A joint boys and girls tournament took place in Wilkie last weekend, the McLurg Sr. SuperVolley, and now another tournament in Kerrobert this weekend will keep a busy start to the early season going. 

There have been about 18,000 games across the history of the National Football League, and thanks to "NFL Scorigami", every single final score from those games is publicly available at the tap of a finger. 

The website tracks every unique score in the NFL for the purpose of logging all of the final score combinations until finally getting a "gami", a score that has never happened before in an NFL game. 

The West Central region had a solid week of harvest progress alongside the rest of the province looking at the Ministry of Agriculture crop report for September 2-8.

Recent incidents surrounding the self-proclaimed "Queen of Canada" have Saskatchewan's political parties trading words.

The Saskatchewan NDP is calling for a major, multi-agency review in response to what they call "widespread failures" to act quickly against the occupation of the former Richmound School by Romana Didulo and her followers.