Yorkton This Week

Two Yorkton residents think collecting eggs from backyard chickens is a good thing, and they appeared before City Council Monday to ask for a Bylaw to allow that to happen.

In what turned out to be an awesome second period, the Yorkton Junior Bulldogs could only settle for a tie in a game most on the team felt they should have won.

Yorkton unanimously adopted the Yorkton Municipal Development Plan at its regular meeting Monday, but were also quick to point out the document is only a guideline and is not binding on the City.

A Churchbridge resident is one of seven men charged with possession and distribution of child pornography as a result of an online investigation by the Saskatchewan ICE (Internet Child Exploitation) Unit.

Access Communications Centennial Scholarship, awarded to: Schayla Kirschman; ACT/UCT Health Education Scholarship, awarded to: Kayla Manovich; Rick Andrusyk Memorial Scholarship, awarded to: Sheridan Polinsky; Army, Navy and Air Force Veterans Ladies

The longstanding springtime culinary tradition of urine-soaked eggs endures, in Dongyang, China, according to a March CNN dispatch.

Teachers in Yorkton and across the province spent two more days on strike last week and withdrew voluntary services on Monday.

Dalton Bakke had quite the night on Queen Victoria Day when the Saskatchewan High Schools Athletics Association (SHSAA) 27th Annual Ed Henick Senior Bowl was played in Regina.

Premier Brad Wall said the "Saskatchewan Advantage" budget was the highlight of a productive legislative session which ends today.

Saskatchewan's third annual provincial archery competition took place Saturday at the YRHS.