Local Arts

One year ago, Erin Costelo got a band together and spent 10 days in a wooden house in Nova Scotia, determined to record a new album. That album, Sweet Marie, was released Oct.

It was a spring, summer and fall, spent on the trail for Tyler Cottenie. Cottenie, who grew up in Yorkton, started a hike across the United States on May 2, and finished the Pacific Crest Trail on Sept. 24.

Harlan Theaker, originally from Yorkton, didn’t do much preparation before taking the plunge at the 2019 Polar Bear Swim in Delta, B.C.

On Dec. 10, the Yorkton SaskTel Pioneers presented a $300 donation to the Yorkton’s Royal Legion.

A once grand farmhouse sits long-abandoned in a field just east of Theodore. The history of the forlorn structure is known to only a few today, how it once housed one of the most influential families in the earliest years of the area.

St. Paul’s School launched its 10th annual ‘One School, One Book Family Reading Program Monday.

There has been interest in a new multi-use indoor turf facility in the city for some time, and Darcy Zaharia is hoping a public meeting next Thursday will help determine just how much.

An escaped convict, spotted in the Yorkton area last week, has turned himself in to authorities. Steven Briggs went missing from the Saskatchewan Penitentiary in Prince Albert, Sk. on New Year’s Eve, being found missing at around 10:00 p.m.

The driver of the semi-truck that collided with the Humboldt Broncos’ team bus has pled guilty to all the charges he was facing.

The Yorkton Rural RCMP are asking for the public assistance in locating an inmate who went missing from the Saskatchewan Penitentiary in Prince Albert, Sask on New Year's Eve.