Weyburn

Movie Nights are back at Nickle Lake Regional Park every Saturday night this summer. This Saturday night, they'll be playing, 'Paddington in Peru'.

"This year, we're going to hold them underneath the roof of our new building, so it should be nice there, and if it's raining out, we can still continue to show movies," shared Park Manager Darren Wheeler. "They'll be  starting at between 8:30 and 9, depending on when dusk hits."

The movies will be projected onto a jumbo blow up screen, which should be right in the courtyard of the new washroom and canteen facilities. 

The Government of Saskatchewan announced an increase to the provincial minimum wage effective October 1, 2025. The increases will change the current $15 wage to $15.35. 

In 2022, the provincial government began to incrementally increase the minimum wage, with a goal to raise it from $11.81 to $15.00 by 2024. With that commitment met, they have implemented the indexation formula again, which puts equal weight to changes to the consumer price index and the average hourly wage for Saskatchewan. 

If you tuned into Battle of the Generations recently, you may have spotted a familiar face, as Estevan’s Jodi Tweed took part in the trivia competition representing Generation X.

The episode aired July 8, featuring contestants from Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X and Boomers. Each round, the lowest-scoring contestant is eliminated. The finalist then faces the vault, where they try to answer four questions in two minutes to win the prize money banked throughout the episode.

Tweed applied for the show last summer after watching the first season.

The Weyburn Salvation Army's School Lunch Program, which runs from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. each weekday, is now completely in-house at their Fourth Street downtown location.

According to Community Ministries Director Ronza Reynard, this is due to now having their own kitchen, which just makes the most sense.

The NDP's leadership race to replace Jagmeet Singh will formally begin in September, with a six-month race to follow according to a rules framework adopted by the party's national council. 

A new leader will be chosen no later than March 29, when the party holds its 2026 convention in Winnipeg.

An entry fee of $100,000 has been set for candidates to show their "organizational and fundraising capacity."

Debates and other leadership events hosted by the party will be streamed online in both official languages, according to the framework. 

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose 35 per cent tariffs on Canadian imports on Aug. 1 in a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney posted on social media Thursday night, evidently setting a new date for bilateral negotiations between the two countries. 

Canada and the United States had committed to working on a new economic and security agreement with a July 21 deadline for a deal. The boosted tariff pressures call into question progress toward the initial time frame.

According to the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture's Weekly Crop Report for the period of July 1st to 7th, released on Thursday, crops in the southeast are looking promising in many areas, though producers would like to see additional timely rains to continue supporting crop development.

While parts of the southeast continue to receive modest rainfall that is causing producers to spray fungicides on certain pulse, cereal, and oilseed crops, other areas in the southeast have been experiencing dry conditions for the past two weeks, and fungicides haven’t been needed yet.

Jean Ann Bailey, late of Weyburn, SK passed away on July 9, 2025 at the age of 70 years.

She was predeceased by her parents, Ray and Dorothy Dennis; nephew, Joel Dennis; father-in-law, Ray Bailey; and her special fur babies, Roxy and Murphy.

The closure of King Street has presented some challenges for residents in the area, with detours in place for road work being done until the end of the summer.

While the residents are dependent on back alley access to their homes, area resident Tara Keating-Jaap said, "Honestly, a little bit of inconvenience is necessary if they can get the pavement to be nicer and better. It's a main road and hasn't been in good repair for years now. We really appreciate the City of Weyburn and Jeff Richards and Council for working so hard to make this finally happen! Very appreciated!"

A dream is set to become a reality for Weyburn's own Brayden King, who will be making his main stage debut at the Country Thunder music festival in Craven this weekend. In a last-minute change, King was tapped to fill the opening slot on Friday afternoon, after singer Nate Smith had to withdraw for health reasons.