Weyburn

Thunderstorms raged across southeast Saskatchewan last night, bringing lightning, thunder, rain, and hail. Strong winds were also reported, with gusts up to 65 kilometres an hour from the north reported in Weyburn, and much stronger winds reported in areas to the north.  

The storm system moved up into the province from Montana around 5:00 p.m., with some of the severe storm warnings being escalated to tornado warnings near Mankota and Coronach. 

The Weyburn Police Service handled 12 individual calls for assistance last week relating to mental health concerns. 

While in many instances, police can use their training to deescalate and work to find safe solutions with people suffering from mental health concerns, in two of last week's cases, the people were required to be apprehended under the Mental Health Act and were taken to the Weyburn General Hospital for appropriate treatment.   

The Heritage Village is gearing up a paranormal investigation. This event is in partnership with Canadian Paranormal Expeditions, a team from Qu’Appelle Valley who hold events across the country.  

Leisure Services Manager for the City of Weyburn, Amanda Wallace, says they’re very excited for the experience to come to Weyburn.  

“You will experience Heritage Village through the miscellaneous ghost hunting tools that they provide. You'll be able to handle and manipulate the ghost hunting equipment and experience it in your own hands.” 

Weyburn's Deputy Chief of Police, Brent VanDeSype, has now taken on the role of Interim Chief of Police for the Weyburn Police Service.

He said he worked well with the former Police Chief Jamie Blunden, who will be the new Police Chief for the Estevan Police Service beginning in October.

For weeks now, the agriculture sector has been calling for action to avoid a potential rail strike urging the Federal Government to take action to stop the strike.

On Wednesday, with just hours left before the strike deadline for over 9000 CN and CPKC workers they gathered once again to voice their concerns.

Terry Youzwa, a farmer from Nipawin and chair of Pulse Canada says we're staring down a rail stoppage of historic proportions.

Paramedics in training will have a bit of financial relief thanks to bursaries invested by the provincial government. Approximately 58 bursaries will be allocated to students entering the EMS program to help financially support paramedic training. A one-time funding of $530,000 will be split up ranging from $5,000-$10,000 over the bursaries. However, certain criteria need to be met to be eligible. 

 the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference says the roughly 9000 CN and CPKC workers involved could walk out as of 12:01 am Thursday.

The Executive Director of the Western Grain Elevators Association (WGEA) Wade Sobkowich says a national rail strike involving both railways will have a major impact, as there is no Plan B.

According to the WGEA we move roughly 50 million tonnes of grain per day by rail in Canada.

Sobkowich says the railways on Tuesday started preparing for a work stoppage situation with both railways embargoing all Canadian-origin products.

As the clock ticks down on the strike deadline there's an overwhelming call for the Canadian government to intervene and prevent a national rail strike.

For months now Canadian Pacific Kansas City, Canadian National and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference have been at the bargaining table but to no avail.

On Sunday, the union announced that unless the parties reached a last-minute agreement, workers would be off the job as of 12:01 a.m. eastern time Thursday.

Members of the Weyburn Police Service, Weyburn Fire Services, and EMS were on the scene of an accident at the intersection of Third Street and Highway 39 this afternoon following a collision involving two vehicles.

The incident occurred at approximately 1:50 p.m. 

"Two occupants of a northbound vehicle SUV sustained some injuries and were transported to the Weyburn General Hospital with unknown injuries at this time," shared Corporal Riley Doud. "The lone occupant of a westbound SUV suffered minor injuries."