Local Arts

Sixteen-year-old Rikki Lee Hort of Endeavour, SK was chosen as the 2011 GX94 Star Search Champion at the Yorkton Exhibition on Saturday night. It was the first year in the competition for Hort, who has been singing since she was 10 years old.

Each month a male and a female student is selected as the SHHS Saint of the Month. Saint of the Month students are nominated by staff and students of SHHS.

WE'RE ALL FRIENDS and LOVERS UNTIL IT FALLS APART Redbird Indie 7-out-of-10 We're All Friends and Lovers Until It Falls Apart is the debut EP from Vancouver band, Redbird, a group some fortunate local music fans will remember from when the band recen

Work continues in the city to provide new entry level housing options. That was what Yorkton Council heard Monday at its Committee-of-the-Whole meeting.

Yorkton Council gave unanimous support to the second and third reading of Zoning Bylaw Amendment at its regular meeting Monday to facilitate a new apartment development in the city.

Duck Mountain Provincial Park is celebrating its 80th anniversary with more electrified campsites.

The City of Yorkton is continuing work on the Dracup Avenue Storm Water Channel and Pond and related projects, with another step about to move forward following unanimous support of Council at its regular meeting Monday.

The Industry Liaison Office (ILO) at the University of Saskatchewan has increased its successes year over year by following a simple mantra: creativity commercialized.

Regulations are being streamlined for large commercial vehicles travelling across the boundaries of the three westernmost provinces.

Police kept a close eye on the Yorkton Summer Exhibition after an eleven-year-old girl reported being abducted from the fair by a strange man on the first day of the event.