Local Arts

In 1986, the Canadian Red Cross in Saskatchewan launched what is now known as the Great Saskatchewan Red Cross Lottery.

It has been announced the legendary Sons of the Pioneers will be appearing in concert on Thursday, April 7 at St. Mary’s Cultural Centre. The Sons of the Pioneers are synonymous with the ultimate in Cowboy music.

Wired.com’s most recent “Absurd Creature” feature shows a toad devouring a larva of a much-smaller beetle, but the “absurdity” is that the larva is in charge and that the toad will soon be beetle food.

A Yorkton judge has decided 18 months is a suitable prison term for a 42-year-old Melville man who pleaded guilty last month to trafficking methamphetamine.

Two men accused of numerous break and enters, thefts and mischief all around the Yorkton region between August and November 2015 have entered guilty pleas to some of their charges.

A 38-year-old Yorkton man accused of sexually assaulting at least two girls under the age of 16 has been denied bail by a Yorkton Provincial Court judge.

The Mac’s convenience store on Smith Street has once again been the scene of an armed robbery. At approximately 2:30 a.m.

Indigenous people make up approximately four per cent of the Canadian population, but more than 23 per cent of the federal inmate population.

It was under the premiership of T. Walter Scott that women obtained the right to vote in provincial elections 100 years ago. Scott was Saskatchewan’s first Premier from 1905 until 1916.

Arrest warrants were issued for the following people at Yorkton Provincial Court March 14, 2016: Darryl John Kovach Christopher J. Lanz Tyler G.