Humboldt

It was a great send off to summer on the Labour Day Weekend at the Manitou Music Fest Rock and Roll Weekend with shows and events scattered throughout the village site. Discover Humboldt took in some of the Saturday festivities at the Little Manitou Art Gallery, an anchor host for all the music.  

Performers hit two stages at the Gallery this year. The upper stage played host to a number of solo artists, providing solo acoustic sets.  

 
With a new school year set to begin, the Saskatchewan RCMP is encouraging everyone to make the transition back to school a safe one.  

Some tips they are providing for parents to remind their children as they head to class in the morning include: 

The future of the Humboldt Broncos was on display in their first preseason game on Sunday night in Melville as the Millionaires beat the Broncos 4-3 in a shootout.

Trailing 2-0 early in the second period, Boston Schmidt put the Broncos on the scoreboard with the team's first goal of the preseason.

Melville would later extend their lead to 3-1. 

With less than a second remaining in the middle frame, Gabriel Kaminski scored to cut the green and gold deficit back to one heading into the final twenty minutes.

Just a reminder with kids back in schools, school day speed zones near Humboldt Schools are back in effect for the new school year. 

Speeds in Humboldt school zones are 30 km per hour during the designated times from 8 am to 5 pm on school days.

School zone speed restrictions are not only on Highways 5 and 20 but on adjoining streets in marked areas.

Be extra careful as kids head back to school this morning. Around the province, be aware of school zones designated by local bylaws in your community.

As Chinese tariffs on Canadian canola products continue to hamper the cash price of one of the country's most valuable crops, farming experts say producers have big decisions ahead of them.

Market analyst Chuck Penner with LeftField Commodity Research said while future prices are down slightly, the cash price farmers receive for their canola, also known as the basis, is much lower.

The governments of Saskatchewan and Canada are investing $10.8 million to expand child care services at post-secondary institutions across the province.

The funding, through the federal Early Learning and Child Care (ELCC) Infrastructure Fund, will create 450 new spaces at Saskatchewan Polytechnic campuses in Regina, Prince Albert, Moose Jaw and Saskatoon, and another 90 at Northlands College in La Ronge.

The Prairie Division of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling on the provincial government to find savings after running a projected deficit in the first quarter of the fiscal year.

Federal public servants were less likely to call in sick to work during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, new government data shows.

The figures shared by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat indicate that in 2020-21, when the pandemic had most office employees working entirely remotely, the average number of sick days for the public service was 5.9.

That number grew to 8.1 in 2021-22, 8.8 in 2022-23 and 9.2 days in 2023-24.

New research on a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu — a small portion of which should arrive in Canada soon — is offering a glimpse into how it came to be.

Studies published in Nature Astronomy and Nature Geoscience last week offer some insight into the granules that were collected and brought to Earth in September 2023 as part of NASA-led OSIRIS-REx mission.