Weyburn

The Weyburn Rotary Music Festival has concluded for the season, with the 'Stars of the Festival' event held on Wednesday, March 26th at the Cugnet Centre. The performers were those who received the top awards in each category.

The St. Michael School Honour Band was awarded 'Best performance by a band', $300 & a shield sponsored by Prairie Sky Co-op Association.

Alexandra Jose and Heidi Penner gave piano performance and were given medals sponsored by Western Financial Group.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's efforts to defuse an escalating trade war with the United States should be commended.

Moe's comment comes as Smith heads to Florida for an event at an undisclosed location with a far-right U.S. influencer who has mocked Canada as a "silly country" and spoken about it being annexed as the 51st state.

Amid continued tariff threats from U.S. President Donald Trump, Moe says Smith is one of Canada's strongest advocates.

A new face is on patrol with the Weyburn Police Service. On Wednesday, the WPS announced Constable Matt Sanders was sworn in.  

Cst. Sanders is a 17-year veteran of policing, who is originally from Weyburn, before his career took him to other centres. Deputy Police Chief Shane St. John said Cst. Sanders originally wanted to start his career at home, though. 

Rodney Reid, a farmer north of Stoughton, says calving season is one of the busiest and most important times of year on his operation. 

With the calm weather that typically arrives in late March and early April, Reid aims to start calving around that time. 

The prairies are expected to feel quite the system starting today as it moves towards the east and is set to hit the southeast tonight. Environment Canada sent out a special weather statement earlier this week detailing that, though some pieces have shifted since then.

Meteorologist Stephen Berg gives a recap of what we can expect this evening.

With an Alberta clipper on its way, may as well take a snow day this weekend and begin Spring cleaning. The timing couldn't be better, as two community organizations are holding sales next week, and they're both accepting donations now.

The Richardson Pioneer Weyburn Red Wings pushed the Battlefords North Stars to the brink of elimination Wednesday night, and they did it in dramatic fashion. Liam Fitzgerald scored the overtime winner with 7:21 left in the first overtime period to lift the Red Wings to a 3-2 victory. 

SaskTel announced yesterday its recent expansion of its 5G network to nearly 100 rural communities, including Arcola, Carlyle, Fillmore, Manor, and Moose Mountain Provincial Park. 

External Communications Manager for SaskTel, Greg Jacobs, explains this is part of an ongoing effort to upgrade their entire wireless network to 5G. 

Each week, the Weyburn Police Service has a regular number of calls to deal with mental health issues. In one instance last week, a woman was taken to the hospital. In another instance, a man had to be taken into custody.

Canadian police patrolling corners of the dark web are well aware of the commonly nefarious ways criminals exploit artificial intelligence. 

There's deepfake pornography. Voice impersonation. Romance scams that turn into financial fraud.

But recently there's been a new twist — criminals offering to "jailbreak" the very algorithms that form the architecture of AI's large language models, or LLMs, tearing down their safeguards so they can be retasked for criminal purposes.

Call it tech support for cybercriminals.