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Manitoba Agriculture released its latest weekly crop report on Tuesday, offering a snapshot of harvest progress and crop conditions across the province. Cereal crop specialist Anne Kirk, who is compiling the reports this month, says harvest operations are moving forward despite recent weather challenges.

A Swift Current father-daughter duo have won the Great Beater Challenge for the second year in a row.

Dustin and Hayley Vipond spent two days touring nearly a thousand kilometres of Alberta, tracking down landmarks and unravelling clues on where to go next. With Dustin driving and Hayley scouring the map, the pair made sure to get every single point they could during their scramble.

The City of Swift Current has announced another sidewalk repair project. 

The section of 10th Avenue Northeast between George Street East and North Hill Drive. 

The work will begin tomorrow, and is expected to take one week to complete, weather depending.  Restrictions will be in place. 

The City of Swift Current apologizes for any inconvenience. 

On May 18, 2025, Angela Jean Maynard passed away peacefully in Princeton, BC at the age of 97 years, with family by her side.
Angela is survived by her children, Kimball Maynard, Braden Maynard, Dierra Maynard (Lloyd) and Leanne Williams (Ron); as well as her grandchildren, Hayden, Shelby, Sierra, Lindsay, Matthew and Tyra.
Angela is predeceased by her husband, Lloyd George Maynard and son, Craig Thomas Maynard.

It's playoff day in the slo pitch tournament at the Saskatchewan Senior Fitness 55+ Provincial Games in Swift Current.

The local team, Wrinkled Warriors, still have a shot at it despite an 0-3 start yesterday.

They lost 10-4 to the Regina Ruckus, 14-13 to the Saskatoon Silver Foxes, and 11-7 to the Saskatoon Red Aces.

The deadline for the Swift Current Museum's Veteran Banner Program is fast approaching.

August 29 is the deadline for anyone who would like to see a friend or family member honoured with a banner in Swift Current. The banners are hung each year, detailing a service member's rank, name, and service. They are put up around Swift Current in time for Remembrance Day, helping to highlight local veterans and veterans with relations in Swift Current. 

A former Swift Current high school teacher could soon have her teaching certificate revoked in light of pleading guilty to sex crimes involving a minor.

Kara Braun, 38, attended a virtual disciplinary hearing last Wednesday conducted by the Saskatchewan Professional Teachers Regulatory Board (SPTRB).

The SPTRB’s professional conduct committee was seeking the most severe sanction they could impose, which is the revocation of Braun’s certificate.

Lead poisoning impacts cattle in Saskatchewan every year, potentially killing multiple animals in a herd. Not only is there the concern associated with losing cattle, but there is also potential for lead to enter the food chain – because of this, testing is required in lead poisoning cases to protect public health.

Researchers say pediatricians, family doctors and parents need to learn more about what kind of performance-enhancing substances kids are using when they work out or play sports.

Seventeen per cent of more than 800 Canadian pediatric specialists surveyed say they saw adolescents who needed medical attention due to dietary supplements or performance drugs over the previous year.

The majority of cases were boys and more than half of them were between 13 and 15 years old.

Almost a third of the patients were even younger — between 10 and 12 years old.

Workers dangle from ropes as they brush the last bit of white paint on the trim of the Okhmatdyt children’s cardiac hospital in Kyiv.

Below them, a damaged children's stroller and construction supplies sit atop a tree-covered garbage heap. Windows of some surrounding buildings are still boarded up with plywood.

One year after a devastating rocket attack on Ukraine's largest children's hospital that killed four and injured a dozen, the century-old facility is getting ready to reopen — with help from the Canadian Red Cross.