Yorkton This Week

The 2015/16 Yorkton Minor Hockey season was punctuated recently as a total of four local players were selected in the 2016 WHL Bantam Draft.

A 50-year-old Yorkton man accused of assaulting a police officer has been released from custody.

Arrest warrants were issued for the following people at Yorkton Provincial Court May 16, 2016.

One youth has been arrested and several other people are under investigation for a home invasion and assault that ended with a high-speed police chase in a downtown residential area. On May 15, police received a call about a home invasion.

The breather between Poppy campaigns for the Yorkton Legion is brief as one winds down and the next begins. In 2015 the local branch of the venerable veterans organization raised $33,161, $19,086 from poppies and $14,075 from wreaths.

In 2015, the South-East Senior Baseball League’s Yorkton Yankees had the strongest season they could have, taking home the provincial championship, league championship and getting voted Saskatchewan Baseball Association senior team of the year.

If you follow baseball, then by now you’ve most likely heard about the situation between the Toronto Blue Jays and Texas Rangers, or, more specifically, Blue Jays’ slugger Jose Bautista and Rangers’ middle infielder Roughned Odor.

Lieutenant Governor Vaughn Solomon Schofield will formally open the First Session of the Twenty-Eighth Legislature with the Speech from the Throne today in the Assembly Chamber of the Saskatchewan Legislative Building.

Gymnastics Saskatchewan held its 2016 Provincial Championships at the Nexera Flexihall in Yorkton. The three-day event, which concluded Sunday, featured athletes from across the province competing in the full range of gumnastics disciplines.

Crime has been declining in Canada for more than two decades in virtually every category. Despite that, the justice system has become steadily more costly.