Yorkton This Week

The Saskatchewan Weekly Newspaper Association (SWNA) awards the best in print each year at the annual Better Newspaper Competition. Yorkton This Week took home one first-place, three second-place and four third-place prizes.

A semi and a pickup truck collided in a fatal accident south of Yorkton last Friday. A northbound semi crashed head-on with a southbound pickup truck on Highway 9 south of Yorkton on Apr. 27. The vehicles spun into the east and west ditches.

A Yorkton man has been found guilty of sexual assault. Kenneth Hasper was found guilty of the lone charge of sexual assault in Court of Queen’s Bench in Yorkton. The charges stem from an incident on June 23 of 2017.

It will be the biggest curling event ever staged in Estevan, Sask., and on Thursday fans will get their chance to nail down coveted seats for the 2018 Home Hardware Canada Cup. Full-event ticket packages will go on sale Thursday at 10 a.m.

John Cena has been a professional wrestler for nearly 20 years. He’s been a top draw in WWE, the biggest pro wrestling company in the world, for almost as long.

Coco Jarin traveled thousands of miles for football. Jarin, a coach, is based in California. Last week he trekked to Yorkton. It’s a long journey, one Jarin has made three times in as many years, but the coach thinks it’s well worth his time.

Mapmaker: Philip Turnor in Rupert’s Land in the Age of Enlightenment by Barbara Mitchell Published by University of Regina Press Review by Michelle Shaw $39.

How do you boost soil water content and soil health without irrigating? Best cover it with a layer of straw, a new study concludes.

Terrance Littletent and Chancz Perry come from different dance worlds. Littletent has performed traditional First Nations hoop dancing for decades, while Perry has specialized in North American hip hop styles.