Yorkton This Week

When 24 people decide they want to be on Yorkton city council, and four decide they want to be mayor, it sends a message that is hard to ignore: people are not happy with the status quo.

Viewed in the distance through a car window, the hills that border Saskatchewan’s Qu’Appelle valley appear soft and gradual. They lie. For years I said I’d like to climb one of those infant mountains; sure I could reach the top in minutes.

Parkland College awarded 19 Entrance Scholarships with a combined value of approximately $88,800 at a presentation event Thursday in Yorkton.

Saskatchewan’s population hit one more milestone today, reaching an all-time high according to figures issued by Statistics Canada today.

This week I find myself perplexed by the millennial notion of love. We have the tools and the voice to spread our thoughts across the globe, yet our topics end up shallow because our minds are too narrow.

Science should be the one thing we can trust. Research should be carried out for the sake of exploration, and the results published, whether the results are positive, or negative.

One of the more common things I hear when it comes to disagreeing with ‘new’ ways of doing things because we have a lot of ‘new’ people in our country is that we need to be more culturally sensitive with how things are done in other countries, so it’

Despite the weekend rain, producers were still able to make progress with harvest. Seventy per cent of the 2016 crop is now combined and 22 per cent is swathed or ready to straight-cut, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture’s weekly Crop Report.

October! How quickly the time goes by! By now many of us have cleared most of our gardens and planters, but I know some are still reluctant to pull out plants which still look so nice.

At the core of my interest in board games lies my love of abstract strategy games. That love really started sometime around Grade 7 when I was introduced to chess.