Local Arts

Yorkton’s school divisions will see significantly less money thanks to the 2017/2018 provincial budget. The Good Spirit School Division will see a funding decrease of 3.15 per cent, or $2,275,872, for a total budget of $69,966,168.

While Yorkton was grappling with a provincial budget that will strip $2.3 million from the city’s bottom line, the federal budget released the same day, March 22, has kind of slipped under the radar locally.

Yorkton Chamber of Commerce President Brent Murdock does not believe that the provincial budget is the worst one that Saskatchewan has seen, but the business community in the city will see a negative impact thanks to the changes made.

Public library funding took a major hit in the recent provincial budget. Through the budget it was reported seven of eight regional library systems will have a reduction of $3.5 million (58 per cent) to $2.

Yorkton Walmart had to be evacuated last week due to a threat. At approximately 1:35 p.m. on March 24, RCMP, Fire and EMS responded to an unspecified threat at the store on Hamilton Road.

The provincial budget shows a record investment in health care at $5.2-billion investment towards health. Finance Minister Kevin Doherty announced the government will increase spending in the health portfolio by $38.6 million, representing a 0.

Two Quebec men accused of selling cocaine in Yorkton have pleaded not guilty and elected to be tried in provincial court.

Third-year RN students at Parkland College took the time to visit the kids at the Yorkton Nursery School Co-operative and take care of their stuffed animal friends.

We don’t have many services that aren’t essential. — Yorkton Mayor Bob Maloney The province has put much of its deficit onto the municipalities to deal with, or at least that is the suggestion of Yorkton Mayor Bob Maloney. “Who’s paying? It’s urbans.

Grain Millers Canada Corp. (GMCC) has announced the initiation of the second phase of a project to add 80,000 metric tonnes of oat product production capacity at its mill in Yorkton, Saskatchewan.