A Saskatchewan company has been fined $112,000 after the death of a worker in 2021. Bench Hutterian Brethren Corp. pleaded guilty to two violations of occupational health and safety regulations in Shaunavon Provincial Court on May 4. The fine stems from an incident on November 25, 2021, near Shaunavon, where a worker was fatally injured […]
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has released more details about an accident near Shaunavon that killed two people. On September 18, 2022, a Cessna 172 aircraft owned by Airborne Energy Solutions Inc was gathering electronic data on pipeline infrastructure for a client along a predetermined route that extended southeast of Shaunavon, then eastward to […]
According to the Transportation Safety Board, two people have died after a plane crash on Sunday near the Town of Shaunavon. The federal agency said that a Cessna 172 took off from Swift Current on Sunday morning, headed to Estevan for a pipelined inspection. The plane crashed over 11 kilometres south-southwest of Shaunavon. Officials say […]
After the amber alert was extended state side into South Dakota for two Saskatchewan kids thought to be in grave danger – the alert has ended. Authorities at the Meade County Sheriffs office in South Dakota announced that they had arrested sex offender Benjamin Martin Moore this morning, and safely recovered the two children. Benjamin […]
A 76-year-old man has died in a fatal motor vehicle collision near Gull Lake (300 kilometres west of Regina). The man from Shaunavon was parked when a southbound SUV collided with the parked vehicle. He was pronounced dead on the scene. The collision happened yesterday at 4:00 p.m. on Highway #37, nine kilometres south of […]
Shaunavon RCMP responded to a drowning incident neat the hamlet of Simmie, which is about 300 kilometres west of Regina. RCMP responded to a swimmer in distress call on Sunday afternoon at around 5:00 PM. It was reported that a 21-year-old man from Alberta had been swimming in the Swift Current Creek with friends when […]
It’s a sea shanty with a Saskatchewan spin. The Hunter Brothers are the latest act to get involved in performing a sea shanty as they have done so with their song “Those Were the Nights” It features the Shaunavon five singing around a barrel being used for percussion with a tractor rolling in at the […]
A farmer at Shaunavon had a rare experience this month. Kelly Oberle had triplet calves twice in the span of one week. The odds of one triplet birth is 1 in 100 thousand. Oberle says the calves are in good health. He was surprised, saying it has never happened at his farm. To keep the […]
Braydon Coburn is going from the Stanley Cup champs to one of the worst teams in the NHL. On Sunday night, the Tampa Bay Lightning announced they have sent the 35-year-old defenceman from Shaunavon along with forward Cedric Paquette and a second-round selection in the 2022 NHL Draft to the Ottawa Senators in exchange for forward […]
