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Corrections and Policing, through the Ministry of Justice, contributed $330,000 to the City of Yorkton to continue funding for three Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers.

Roots of the town of Ituna are similar to many prairie communities, connected by the development of Canadian railways, but Ituna now has something unique to Saskatchewan, and quite possibly to anywhere else in the world.

Yorkton Mayor Bob Maloney told Council Monday the City handled the recent rain flood event quite well. "Our experience in 2010 served us very well this time," Maloney told the regular meeting of Council Monday.

Yorkton Rural RCMP are asking the public for their assistance in the following investigation: Sometime between June 19 and June 23, 2014, a large 45 kilowatt generator was stolen from Ungar Construction yard in Theodore, SK.

An active member of the Yorkton RCMP has lost his driver's licence and is the subject of a Code of Conduct review following a guilty plea to driving with over .08 blood alcohol content (BAC). Cpl.

In April, Anton Purisima filed a claim in Federal District Court in New York City that the Lowering The Bar blog calculated was for the largest monetary demand ever made in a lawsuit - "$2,000 decillion" (or 2 followed by 36 zeroes, which of course i

Yorkton Council took its first look at the City's 2015 budget at its regular meeting Monday. The tax increase laid out in the report presented, is a significant one at six per cent. The increase would come on the heels of the 5.

The Yorkton Regional 4-H Beef Show and Sale was held as part of the annual Yorkton Exhibition. While storm conditions kept some expected participants at home, the event still attracted 4H clubs and their members from throughout the region.

The Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society (STARS) is the first medical service in Canada to begin stocking blood in advance for life-saving transfusions on air medical missions. The STARS base in Saskatoon is now the third base to come on line.

The provincial government has approved a 3.4 per cent overall increase to Saskatchewan Government Insurance's (SGI) Saskatchewan Auto Fund vehicle rates, along with rate rebalancing, and a one per cent increase to the capital amount on all rates.