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Fast Five (DVD/Blu-Ray) - Dir. Justin Lin. Starring Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson. It's rarely a good sign when the movie you are about to watch ends with a number like "five.

The heavy hand of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service landed on 11-year-old Skylar Capo and her mom in June, after an agent happened to spot Skylar holding a baby woodpecker in her hands at a Lowes home improvement store in Fredericksburg, Va.

A Yorkton insurance business is spearheading an initiative to build a new skateboard park in the city's downtown.

Few, if anyone, are as famous, or perhaps infamous, in terms of their association with the Yorkton Terriers Junior Hockey Club than former team owner and coach Gerry James.

Saskatchewan's population has hit a new all-time high of 1,057,884 people following the largest quarterly population jump ever recorded since Statistics Canada starting keeping quarterly population estimates.

As Yorkton becomes increasingly a destination for international immigrants, questions of how to make the city more accommodating to the influx of newcomers grow more important.

Neverest and Alyssa Reid have joined forces for a MuchMusic presented Canadian Tour this fall.

Annual greenhouse gases have been reduced in new government buildings in an amount equal to taking 600 cars off the road each year, and water conservation projects will result in a reduction of 78 Olympic-sized swimming pools of water annually.

The Health Foundation of East Central Saskatchewan showed off the region's new Cardiac Rehabilitation Program to media at an event last Thursday.

The board of the Yorkton Film Festival kicked off celebrations for the festival's 65th anniversary during Culture Days events at the Godfrey Dean on Saturday. "We're very, very excited.