Yorkton This Week

Britain's National Health Service acknowledged in November that, because of a shortage of healthy lungs and other organs available for transplant, it was offering those on waiting lists the option of receiving them from former smokers, drug addicts,

The Yorkton Terriers and Melville Millionaires hooked up for the traditional home-and-home New Year's set, with Melville taking both.

Eight major economic forecasters are predicting that Saskatchewan will have the fastest growing economy in Canada in 2011. Saskatchewan's economy is expected to increase by an average of 3.7 per cent next year, well ahead of the 2.

The results of Yorkton's annual Christmas Bird Count are in. A total of 1,176 individual birds from 19 separate species were spotted on December 29.

Artwork compliment of NASHI, a Saskatchewan based charitable organization, rallying activists in the fight to stop human trafficking in the world. See Web site: http://www.nashi.ca/home.html.

"'She is perfect.' Those were the first words I spoke when I saw Aubrey for the first time on May 16th, 2009," wrote her Mother Janine on a Facebook page for 'Baby Aubrey'. "From her head to her ten tiny toes she was perfect...

When you drive around Yorkton it's not that difficult to find 'Help Wanted' signs hanging in the windows of local business.

Logan Wilk and RJ Skinner have a lot in common with each other. Both are former Yorkton Regional High School students. Both played football there. Both continue to play football. Both are pretty solid dudes by anyone's standards.

Saskatchewan Roughrider fans can turn Rider pride into a resolution to save lives this New Year.

Jeanette Stewart, who performs as Jean Boots, said songwriting seems to come rather freely to her.