Southwest Booster Staff

SWIFT CURRENT – As of 10 a.m. today, the City of Swift Current lifted the State of Emergency that had been enacted on April 11, in response to this year’s spring flooding. For the past few days, the City of Swift Current and the Water Security Agency have been closely monitoring the latest weather...

The Water Security Agency (WSA) is pointing to a tapered off flooding risk in the Swift Current Creek in their most recent spring runoff update. Information released by the Water Security Agency this afternoon (April 18) noted that current flows in the creek are down to 20 metres cubed per second, down from last...

CITY OF SWIFT CURRENT - As of 5 p.m. today, the City of Swift Current remains in the State of Emergency. The water levels for the Swift Current Creek will remain high, with fluctuations over the next 10 – 14 days as the Water Security Agency manages the continuous inflow of water into...

CITY OF SWIFT CURRENT - As of 10 a.m. today, the City of Swift Current remains in the State of Emergency as the water levels of the Swift Current Creek continue to be high. The City of Swift Current and the Water Security Agency have been working very closely together to manage how much...

CITY OF SWIFT CURRENT - As of 4 p.m. today (April 12), the City of Swift Current remains in the State of Emergency as the water levels of the Swift Current Creek continue to be high. The current Swift Current Creek water levels match the flood events of 1997 and 2011, with the possibility...

Swift Current Mayor Al Bridal has reached out to city resident to share a message regarding the current state of emergency occurring in Swift Current caused by high flooding levels.His statement is as follows: Dear Citizens of Swift Current,As you all know, yesterday at a Special Council Meeting, the City of Swift Current declared...

CITY OF SWIFT CURRENT - As of 8 a.m. today, the City of Swift Current remains in the State of Emergency as the water levels of the Swift Current Creek continue to be high. It is anticipated that by mid-morning, as the temperatures warm, and in conjunction with the necessary release of water from...

The O.M. Irwin Ice girls basketball team won the league championship with a 65-37 win over the ECS Stars on March 9. The girls went undefeated in league play, won the Speedy Creek Hoops Classic tournament in January and only lost one game all season at a grade 9 tournament in Medicine Hat in...

SHSAA SENIOR BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS Big thanks to our Regional Basketball host schools (Herbert and Maple Creek). It is a lot of work to put on a regional tournament. With it being a four-day weekend for Chinook schools, it would have been even more of a challenge to find workers for games, booths and gates....

The top two seeds will meet in the Swift Current Curling Club – Innovation Credit Union Super League final on March 23. Top seeded First Avenue Dental and second seeded Swift Plumbing & Heating won their playoff games on Thursday to advance to the March 2023 final. March 16 results