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Last week's announcement that the provincial government will begin paying a larger share of the cost of regional health projects is encouraging news, says The Health Foundation's executive director, Ross Fisher.

Yorkton Transitional Homes for Youth Inc. last week celebrated the opening of its new housing project in Yorkton: the first of its kind outside of the province's major cities.

Russell Yasinowski lives north of Yorkton. Retired from farming. he was looking for something to take up some time in the winter, and last year started sculpting with snow.

RCMP in Yorkton are providing the following information regarding an aboriginal man reported missing from their detachment area on February 17: Harold Gordon Smoke, age 38.

Recent improvements to the health region's diagnostic imaging systems are a feather in the cap of the Ministry of Health, but The Health Foundation of East Central Saskatchewan wants to remind residents it was local donations that made the upgrades p

SaskEnergy pipeline subsidiary TransGas, together with partner companies Found Energy and Innovative Steam Technologies (IST) will use an innovative technology designed to capture the waste heat of compressor station engines and convert it to useable

Brandon Coleman, Lindsay and Kayla Kitsch braved the chilly temperatures on Sunday to dig a tunnel through a massive snowbank in their grandparents front yard on a city street in Yorkton.

Two hundred boredom "activists" gathered in London in December at James Ward's annual banal-apalooza conference, "Boring 2010," to listen to ennui-stricken speakers glorify all things dreary, including a demonstration of milk-tasting (in wine glasses

Saskatchewan's government is providing more than $40 million in additional funding for the Saskatchewan Surgical Initiative this year, so that more patients receive surgery sooner.

Saskatchewan experienced an increase in the number of live births in the province in 2010. To date, there have been 14,978 live births registered in Saskatchewan in 2010, compared to 14,536 for 2009.