Yorkton This Week

Saskatchewan farmers have been able to seed five per cent of the 2019 crop, compared to the five-year average (2014-18) of three per cent. Field activities such as harrowing, rock picking and fertilizing are taking place.

Yorkton Film Festival Week will be marked in the city May 23-26. “The Yorkton Film Festival celebrates 72 years in 2019, and is the longest running festival in North America.

The canola export issue between Canada and China is not going away. Frankly I don’t see a solution cropping up for several months.

A Yorkton man who was charged with two counts of dangerous driving causing death was in court over the past two weeks. Hunter Arnold plead not guilty to the two charges, which stem from a collision on Sept.

Yorkton residents should be prepared to deal with emergencies if they arise. That was the message put forward by Lisa Washington Community Development Manager, with the City as she made a presentation to the regular meeting of Yorkton Council Monday.

There’s less than a week left to sign a petition that aims to reform commercial driving training nationwide – a petition the Brons and Joseph families are urging people to sign.

Dear Editor: In December 2017, the federal and provincial governments agreed that provinces would receive 75 per cent of the cannabis excise tax revenues instead of a fifty-fifty split. These additional dollars were to support municipalities.

Saskatchewan producers had a record 1,481 quarter sections come into compliance in 2018-19, more than doubling last year’s numbers and a tenfold increase from 2014-15.

Josh Gogol of Canora continues to face a variety of challenges, monetary and otherwise, after suffering a serious spinal cord injury which left him in a wheelchair.

It was interesting to listen to a presentation Monday at the regular meeting of Yorkton Council regarding is Emergency Preparedness Week in Canada May 5-11.