Local Arts

The Yorkton Film Festival is proud to announce the continuation of our OPEN Cinema program for the 2014 - 2015 Screening Year. Join us at the Yorkton Public Library as we open up the film vaults and bring out some of the best.

National Disability Employment Awareness Month has been established to increase the awareness of the positive outcomes of hiring persons with disabilities in Canada.

In the moments after Cpl. Nathan Cirillo was shot while standing on guard at the National War Memorial, several passersby immediately rushed to his side to perform first aid. One of them was lawyer Barbara Winters.

Yorkton Council has declared Nov 16 to 22 in the city as Anti-Bullying Week. The decision was made at the regular meeting of Council Monday at the request of the St. Mary's School Community Council. The Council, along with St.

The size of a wage increase for Yorkton's firefighters is now in the hands of an arbitration board.

From time to time, a virus, such as the swine flu in 2009 or H1N1 last year, comes along and dominates the headlines. Meanwhile, year in and year out, seasonal influenza hospitalizes thousands Canadians and claims hundreds of lives.

August wholesale trade numbers jumped 10.8 per cent on a year-over-year basis, the second highest percentage increase among the provinces on a seasonally adjusted basis according to Statistics Canada. Nationally, wholesale trade was up 6.0 per cent.

New driver August Becker leaves his cellphone alone every time he drives. "You just shouldn't text and drive, it's a stupid thing to do.

Nearly a year-and-a-half after Yorkton and District Nursing Home's bus had to be taken off the road, a new one is on its way.

Four suspects are in custody and one has been released following an armed bank robbery in Elfros two weeks ago. On October 7, a masked gunman entered the Elfros Credit Union and fled with an undisclosed amount of cash.