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A Preeceville man is traveling to the United States for medical treatment after a long struggle with the Saskatchewan healthcare program. Rodney Gardner, 46, took ill in December of last year.

To wrap up a summer on mancala I thought I’d offer up a rather intriguing variant 55Stones. The game 55Stones was said to have been invented on Halloween night 2002 by Ralf Gering in Kusterdingen, Germany.

After a year of almost no change, Canada’s private sector job vacancy rate edged up 0.2 percentage points to 2.

Youngsters enjoyed a day at the carnival on August 23. It was part of a fundraiser by Staples and Big Brothers Big Sisters Yorkton to buy school supplies for students in need. They raised $860.

The issue of rural crime has become a definite hot button issue in Saskatchewan. So it’s no surprise the provincial government went to work trying to figure out how to deal with the concerns of the public.

Kids, scapels in hand, prepare for surgery. They sit side-by-side at a table. They receive their patients: Licorice sticks. The sticks are clogged with Nerds, the small, pebble-shaped candy.

In 1870, when the Dominion of Canada came into possession of the lands that had been chartered to the Hudson Bay Company, it inherited control of the vast territory which comprised all of what is Western Canada today, except for British Columbia and

The bail hearing in the Desiree Musqua case has been delayed until Musqua finds a new lawyer. The hearing was scheduled for August 23 at the Yorkton Pronvincial Court.

Mature drivers will have a chance to brush up on their road knowledge with a refresher course this September. The Saskatchewan Safety Council (SSC) is offering a free course for drivers 55 years or older.

The Yorkton Chamber of Commerce is encouraging local business owners to contact their members of parliament about proposed federal tax changes.