Opinion

Few places on Earth have been untouched by humans, according to a study in the journal Science. Satellite images taken from hundreds of kilometres above the planet reveal a world that we have irrevocably changed within a remarkably short time.

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) gave today's federal budget a B-minus, applauding the government's plans to overhaul job training and keep a lid on spending, while criticizing the extension of pork-barreling regional development programs and

Spring is trying to spring. The calendar says it should, and we, the people, agree. But even as we wish winter away, we dread what follows. Alps have risen in our front yards. Some walkways sport newly sculpted tunnels.

I've been a huge fan of Jack Horner since I was in university. Horner is the American paleontologist who was among the first to recognize the link between dinosaurs and birds.

The provincial budget dropped last Wednesday in the Saskatchewan Legislature and it was a document that has to be looked at as positive, from a Yorkton perspective.

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

I don't know about you, fellow gardeners, but with every snowfall it seems harder to believe that it is now spring! The piles of snow everywhere make it difficult to imagine how our tulips and daffodils will ever make an appearance.

Dear Editor: I am a 69 year old retired Yorkton Regional Health Centre employee. On March 13, 2013, as her sole caregiver, I brought my 88 year old, 150 lb., disabled mother in for an EGD slated for 10 a.m.

Rural Saskatchewan has certainly seen better budgets. But it has also seen worse. Let us examine today how rural Saskatchewan specifically did in the 2013-14 budget, presented last week by Finance Minister Ken Krawetz.