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An incident that occurred on Thursday, February 6 in Humboldt has resulted in a 48-year-old male facing multiple assault charges.

Officers along with local EMS responded to a report of an assault in a business parking lot at around 11:30 pm. 

The investigation determined an adult male was armed with a machete and approached two other males in the parking lot. The two groups did not know each other.

During the altercation, one of the males was injured. He was transported to hospital with injuries described as serious in nature. There is no update on his condition.

The HCAA Junior Curling District Championships hosted by Muenster School took place at the Humboldt Curling over the past two days (Feb.11&12).

Here are the results from the championship finals in each category:

On the Girls side Muenster beat St. Dominic School from Humboldt

On the Boys side Bruno defeated Humboldt Collegiate

Humboldt is one of several communities that is set to benefit from the latest investment from the Saskatchewan Government to help address growing student enrolment.  

On Wednesday, the provincial government announced it would be pledging an additional 29.5 million dollars in relocatable classrooms.  

The mid-year funding brings the total investment from the Saskatchewan government up to $58 million for 2024-25.  

Heading into the Family Day long weekend and the ensuing week off in Horizon and Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools, the Humboldt and District Gallery have some downtime covered for kids.  

February Break programming goes from February 18 to 21 from 1 to 5 pm each day.  

Humboldt/Lanigan RCMP is asking for the public’s assistance about a break and enter that occurred in Lanigan. 

The incident occurred on Main Street in Lanigan, sometime between January 7 and January 11. The property sustained some minor damage.  

*Update*

The Youth Writers night on Feb.12 has been cancelled.

It started with a poetry slam and followed up with an adult writers’ night. Now it’s time for young writers to shine in the spotlight. 

Once again Watrous Hospital has experienced closure of its ER over the evenings of February 10 and 11.  

A conversation with Watrous Mayor John Gunderson revealed that the primary challenge was with temporary staff shortages in the hospital’s lab. It’s a situation that Gunderson is hoping to be short term. However, Watrous Hospital is just one rural and northern Saskatchewan centre experiencing those types of staffing challenges. 

In order to reduce wait times for diagnostics in breast cancer patients, the provincial government has announced the continuation of contracted service providers from Alberta. The short-term extension was announced in a release of February 10.  

A single vehicle rollever near Bruno has resulted in the sole occupants death. 

Saskatoon RCMP, along with local fire and EMS, responded to the accident on Township Road 384 approximately 9 kilometres west of Bruno.

The deceased has been identified as a 60-year-old male from Bruno, SK. His family has been notified.

Saskatoon RCMP continue to investigate with the assistance of a Saskatchewan RCMP collision reconstructionist.

 Humboldt RCMP assisted in this investigation.

Saskatchewan RCMP's Prince Albert Crime Reduction Team (CRT), Warrant Enforcement and Suppression Team (WEST) and Humboldt Detachment arrested and charged one individual and seized nearly two kilograms of illicit drugs and 35,000 illegal cigarettes after executing a search warrant near Humboldt, SK.

An RCMP release indicates that on February 4, 2025, RCMP officers from Prince Albert CRT and Humboldt Detachment executed a search warrant at a residence northeast of Humboldt in relation to an ongoing investigation.