Opinion

Further to Crime Diary from last week ("Was the Latham decision just?" Yorkton This Week, October 18, 2013), I want to talk a little bit more about sentencing.

What weighs less than a paperclip, tastes terrible and can travel thousands of kilometres without a map? Hint: this delicate critter is tawny-orange with black veins and white spots and has been mysteriously absent from Canada this summer.

It was one of the government announcements we have all been waiting for here in Yorkton, Premier Brad Wall stepping forward last week with $10 million on funding for a new Trades and Technology Centre for Parkland College.

On October 11, Judge Darin Chow of the Yorkton Provincial Court handed Trevor Latham a suspended sentence with 18 months probation for sexual assault.

Just because our gardens are done doesn't mean that we gardeners are settling back in our easy chairs with our fuzzy slippers on not yet, anyway! The next meeting of the Yorkton and District Horticultural Society will be on Thursday, October 17 at 7:

October, the time of year for Nobel Prizes and with them the prestige and, as usual, the controversy. Physics Very little controversy on what this prize would be awarded for.

Following Japan's devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami, fear spread about risks of leaked radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant - for the health of those living in or near Fukushima or involved in cleanup efforts, and for the pl

If the high school driver that was clocked doing 105 km/h in a school zone last week is found to be guilty then I think it should be a real long while before that youngster ever gets behind a wheel of a vehicle again.

Welcome to Week LXXIV of 'Fishing Parkland Shorelines'. Like most of us I am a novice fisherman, loving to fish, but far from an expert.