Humboldt

The union representing about 55,000 Canada Post employees has called for a countrywide halt to overtime work, saying its negotiators will continue to review the latest contract offers from the mail carrier.

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers said late Thursday that members were being told to refuse any work beyond eight hours in a day and 40 hours in a week. 

The University of Saskatchewan’s Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM) has secured over $194 million in funding, to be delivered over the next five years. This renewed interprovincial funding commitment from Manitoba, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan has been in place for over 60 years.

Through the agreement, WCVM provides essential veterinary medicine programming, research, and clinical services to meet the needs of each province. Saskatchewan and Manitoba each have 25 student seats, while British Columbia funds 40 seats.

A female teenager has been arrested after Prince Albert Provincial General Investigation Section (GIS) located a Black Jeep that was responsible for a fatal collision with a pedestrian on Highway #11 on Tuesday morning.  

The Black Jeep was located on the Beardy’s & Okemasis Cree Nation on Wednesday (May 21).  

Plant 2025 is well underway across the prairies and generally ahead of the seasonal averages.

Canada's Outlook for Principal Field Crops came out yesterday.

Some of the highlights for the 2025-26 growing season:

As farmers continue their seeding operations, the latest crop report brings a mix of optimism and caution. 

Crop Extension Specialist Tyce Masich says at this point 72 per cent of the provincial crop is now planted; that's an increase of 23 per cent from last week. 

He notes it's a smaller increase than the week before, largely due to rain delays in parts of the south and east regions of the province. 

The 15U AAA East Central Dodgers squeaked out a walk off 7-6 victory against the Saskatoon Expos last night.  

Sawyer Pollon knocked in the game winning run with a single in the bottom of the seventh inning.  

Reid Griffith picked up the win on the mound for the Dodgers.  

The 15U AA Watrous Lakers picked up an 8-5 win over the 15U AA East Central Dodgers on Wednesday night in Humboldt. 

Daxton Hoppenreys led the Lakers at the plate with three hits, a pair of RBIs and two runs scored. Jayce Lockie also had two RBIs.  

For East Central, Dryden Knittig, Hunter Korte, and Kade Comfort each had two hits.  

Watrous stormed out of the gates, picking up four runs through the first three innings.  

Humboldt RCMP are asking the public’s assistance in identifying a pair of individuals and/or vehicle involved with mischief with a local business. 

On Monday, May 19 at around 1am, video surveillance places a dark coloured 4 door Ford hatchback car with no visible license plate and two occupants driving into a business compound on 4th Avenue, checking for easily accessible storage units.  

The Humboldt/Lanigan RCMP are investigating an incident that saw jewellery stolen from a local residence.  

Sometime on Friday, May 16, between 9:30-5:00 unknown suspects broke into the residence and stole jewelry out of their jewelry box inside the home. 

A picture of the missing jewellery is located above.  

The union representing about 55,000 Canada Post employees said the latest offers from the postal service "fall short" with hours to go until a looming strike deadline.

Canada Post meanwhile said Thursday it's already seeing mail volumes decline ahead of another possible labour disruption and is pushing for an urgent resolution.

Spokesperson Lisa Liu said Canada Post hasn't yet received a response from the union about its proposals issued a day earlier.

The postal service is ready to resume bargaining "as soon as possible" with a mediator at the table, she said.