Yorkton This Week

It's not exactly what you would classify as bad news for the province. In fact, the recent job numbers are actually alarmingly good - especially when you compare them with what's been going on in the rest of country when it comes to job creation.

Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL) and its 235 member-owned retail Co-ops are donating $1,000,000 over five years to help local Co-ops and the Canadian Red Cross work together to provide effective, community-based emergency response throughout Wes

Two of the Royal Saskatchewan Museum's (RSM) palaeontological travelling exhibits - Scotty the T. rex's skull and Omaciw the Tylosaur are on the move again.

This week we'll look at something just a little different, and that is a book on a game, rather than the game itself. Long time readers may recall I have written on Hive in the past.

Saskatchewan's finance minister is skeptical of an investigative report on CBC's Fifth Estate that gave Yorkton's hospital a "D" grade.

A group of First Nations people walking from Stanley Mission to Ottawa passed through Yorkton Sunday.

Versus Series Hairy Hands 7-out-of-10 James Bright, a UK based producer otherwise known as Hairy Hands, took his time in creating the Versus Series.

The Canalta Cup, emblematic of being Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League champions, will reside in Yorkton for the next year. The local Junior Terriers earned the title with a win Sunday in Game 6 of the league final against Humboldt.

A Verizon risk team, looking for data breaches on a client's computers, discovered that one company software developer was basically idle for many months, yet remained productive - because he had outsourced his projects to a Chinese software develope

Irene Strilchuk of Yorkton passed away on Thursday, April 4, 2013 at St. Paul's Hospital in Saskatoon. She was 80 years of age. Irene was born on October 2, 1932 on a farm north of Yorkton to Wasyl & Maria (nee Kacedan) Strilchuk.