Local Arts

California State University Los Angeles researcher Marc Kubasak spent about 2,500 hours (sometimes 12 hours a day) training 40 brain-damaged rats to walk on a treadmill, after sewing little vests to tether the critters, suspended, to a robotic arm.

Be on the lookout for Loggerhead Shrikes (a.k.a. Butcherbirds) perching on fence posts, utility wires, and prominent dead branches in shelterbelts and shrub patches, particularly near farmsteads.

St. Alphonsus School had the honor of hosting the Division Oratory this year on Tuesday, May 12, 2015 for Christ the Teacher Catholic School Division. We’d like to thank the judges, Mr. Bob Maloney, Mayor for the City of Yorkton; Mrs.

Peter Wyatt, president of the Yorkton Legion, inspects members of the NLCC Margaree, and RCSCC Orkney during their Annual Ceremonial Review and Inspection Sunday at Dr. Brass School.

Undercover witnesses reveal elaborate fictional reality created for murder suspect in eight-month, $300K sting

Crown reveals “Mr. Big” operation responsible for catching alleged killer It has been more than six years since the murdered body of 50-year-old Gwenda Gregory was found in her Usherville home on a cold March afternoon.

The Yorkton municipal RCMP have charged a 20-year-old Yorkton man in relation to an incident that closed down all Yorkton schools on the afternoon of May 4. Tanner Edward Lingel faces one count of possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose.

The Royal Canadian Legion paraded into the city cemetery Saturday evening to conduct the annual Decoration Day Ceremony. In traditional fashion, the scattering of ashes was carried out by cadets.

When a young frenchman unearthed a few war-era items in his back yard garden in 2006, it began a detective story which would evolve into one of discovery for Garth Simms and his sister Laurie Parobec, both of Yorkton.

The detective work and forensic tests which went into identifying Private William Simms is the stuff of television shows and mystery movies. The mystery in this case started as many do, by the opportunity of fate.