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It was a good day yesterday for our Ultimate Giveaway grand prize winner Stephanie Green. 

Green stopped by B&A Petroleum to collect her chosen grand prize package that she won as our Ultimate Giveaway winner. She selected the "Hit The Roadtrip" package from B&A Petroleum which included: 

Shaunavon RCMP are investigating an assault in the community. 

RCMP have confirmed they are looking into an incident that occurred late in August. 

While the investigation is ongoing, there have been no charges laid. 

No further information was available from the RCMP. 

Road crews are occupying a 13-kilometre stretch of Highway 332.

The work they are conducting is located three kilometres east of Hazlet. 

Motorists are being advised that they need to be prepared to stop and that flag persons are in attendance. The work is being listed as occurring in both lanes. 

Any vehicles passing by will need to reduce speed and obey the posted speed limit. The work is expected to be finished by 5 p.m.

For updates, check the Highway Hotline.

Throughout the Summer our Southwest Explorer, Carianne Hunter visited many events across the Southwest all the while handing out some Full Line Ag fun bucks to lucky listeners who found her at each event including the coveted gold bucks this year. 

Well, the time has come to put those Full Line Ag fun bucks to good use. Friday evening (Sep 12th) we will be holding our Million Dollar Auction event at Cypress Motors. This event is an opportunity for all those that collected those fun bucks to come and use that money to bid on over 30 items from our Southwest Explorer sponsors. 

The company will start commissioning the Saskatchewan canola plant in the next couple of months

Canola growers finally have some good news to celebrate.

Cargill’s brand-new Regina crush facility is coming online just as farmers are reeling from the loss of their top export market.

“At a time of uncertainty in the canola markets, to have domestic demand is a really good opportunity for farmers,” said Cargill Limited president Jeff Vassart.

Keith Urban is playing LIVE in Saskatoon on Monday Sept. 15th with his High and Alive world tour, and we want to send YOU to the show!

We've got 2 pairs of tickets to give away to the show plus hotel stay, and YOU could be lucky enough to qualify by playing "Urban Legends"! All week long, we have been playing "Urban Legends" where we give you 3 statements about Mr. Urban. Within those statements, there is 2 truths and a lie. Your job is to determine which of these statements is the lie. If you do so, you're qualified to win!

A local man is set to spend the next year behind bars and the next two decades on a registry after his recent sentencing earlier this week on a charge stemming from child pornography seized in 2023. 

Maple Creek's Kiyomichi Nakanishi pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography in Swift Current Provincial Court on Tuesday.

With fall well on the way, countless species of birds have already set off on a lengthy annual journey south for the winter.

Nature Saskatchewan is looking to encourage southwest residents to be mindful and keep an eye out for birds on their seasonal migration.

Jordan Rustad, conservation coordinator at Nature Saskatchewan, shared that she works at Last Mountain Bird Observatory, where a migration monitoring bird banding station is set up.

Swift Current's Anthony Wilson has come home to play his final WHL season with the Broncos.

"All roads lead home," he said. "It's been pretty cool. I played at a young age here, and being back here wearing a Bronco jersey is obviously pretty special."

Wilson joined the Broncos after being waived by Lethbridge in the post-season.

"I got put up on waivers, and then Chad reached out over the summer and told me he wanted me to come to camp," Wilson said. "I ended up here and am super pumped about it.

The number of emergency department visits for pneumonia more than doubled last fall over the previous year, the Canadian Institute for Health Information says.    

The new data released Thursday said young people between five and 19 years old were the hardest hit. 

"This is actually the largest increase in pneumonia-related emergency department visits that we've seen post-COVID," said Tanya Khan, CIHI's manager of hospital data advancement and engagement, in an interview.