Local Arts

Saskatchewan’s public libraries bore the brunt of major budget cuts in the most recent provincial budget. In Yorkton, that meant cuts to staff, materials, courier service and available resources.

The results are in! The cutest pets were chosen by the number of 'Likes' their pictures got on the Yorkton This Week Facebook Page. Contest winners can pick up their prizes at the Yorkton This Week office at 20 Third Avenue North.

Yorkton Municipal RCMP, with the aid of the CN Rail Police, have arrested a Saskatchewan woman and seized a shipment of illegal tobacco products. At approximately 8 p.m.

When Royce Pettyjohn was given the job of community and economic development for Maple Creek in 2011, things were looking pretty bleak in his hometown of around 2500 people in southwestern Saskatchewan.

In 1958, we were not quite as sentimental about geography as we are today. On this date in that year, Canada blew up a mountain in what was, up to that time, the world’s largest peacetime non-nuclear explosion.

The Yorkton Regional High School’s robotics program notched another win into their belts at the Sask Polytechnic myRobotRumble. The team of James Thiessen and Brett Guenther took home first place in the tournament.

Equinox already gearing up for Canada Day production

Langenburg's Jess Moskaluke took home the biggest honour of her young career April 2 at the Juno Awards in Ottawa.

It is always interesting when the history of a game comes with a good story attached. Canadian checkers is certainly one such game.