Southwest Booster Staff

The Saskatchewan RCMP have requested the independent investigation of an officer-involved shooting in Swift Current during the evening of March 17. The Swift Current Municipal RCMP responded to a report of an assault with a weapon in an apartment building in the 500 block of Robert St. E. at approximately 5:43 p.m. on Thursday....

SWAC is having a milestone anniversary this school year. The South West Athletic Conference was formed in 1951. This school year is our 50th Anniversary! Curling: We appreciate curling facilities working with all our senior/junior SWAC teams throughout the season during practices and sectional playoffs. What a busy curling weekend in...

Velocity Taekwondo brought 31 medals back from the Kim’s Challenge Provincial Championships. 17 athletes combined to win 13 gold medals, 10 silver, and eight bronze medals. HIGH PERFORMANCE POOMSAE Gold: Brooklyn Hir. REC POOMSAE Gold: Nathan Onraet, Gabriel Aguilar, Christiaan DeLange.

Team captain Matthew Ripplinger won over half of the awards at the Swift Current Home Hardware U18 AAA Legionnaires awards banquet with five individual awards. The Legionnaires missed the playoffs by mere percentage points this season with a 17-22-0-5 record. Ripplinger, a 5’7’’ forward from Regina, led the Legionnaires with 22...

A fire at the West Entrance of the Swift Current Comprehensive High School this afternoon prompted an evacuation of all staff and students to neighbouring Irwin School. The Swift Current Fire Department responded and extinguished the fire before clean up efforts began. RCMP were on hand to restrict traffic around the scene, and ensure...

Members of Swift Current Christian Taekwondo participated in Kim’s Challenge in Regina on Saturday, March 5, bringing home three gold, four silver and five bronze medals in sparring and poomsae (forms). “This was the first face-to-face tournament the province has seen in almost two years,” says head instructor Gary Voysey. “We were all a...

What a busy curling weekend in the SouthWest. Thank you to the Fox Valley Curling Club and the Swift Current Curling Club for giving SWAC access to your facilities. The weekend of March 11-12 will also be very busy for our senior teams – Provincial Curling, Provincial Wrestling and Conference Basketball are all taking place.

Josh Davies and Karson King each scored twice to lift Swift Current Broncos to a 4-3 win over the host Regina Pats on Monday afternoon. Davies scored the game winner in the third period, his 15th goal of the season, midway through the final frame. King scored the Broncos first two goals and now has...

An opportunity to try your hand at ice fishing is coming up this weekend across Saskatchewan. February 19 to 21 is Free Fishing Weekend in Saskatchewan, with Saskatchewan residents and visitors able to fish without a fishing license at any provincial body of water that has an open sport fishing season.

The Swift Current 17U Black Junior SunDogs finished fourth in the province out of 27 teams at Sask Cup #1 in Warman over the weekend.  The team went undefeated through its first five matches, then came up short losing a hard fought battle in three sets to the Sask Stealth in the Tier One...