Yorkton This Week

A Saskatchewan First Nation is nurturing new farming operations more than a century after they were stifled. An injection of $954,000 in federal cash is making up for lost time, Cowessess First Nation Chief Cadmus Delorme said.

When you play a lot of board games you learn that some are outstanding – say crokinole – some are a deeply flawed waste of time – think Monopoly – and some are games which remain something of a mystery.

First Nations, Métis and Northern Affairs Minister Don McMorris has announced that $2 million of provincial funding will be provided to the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) to support research into undocumented deaths and burials on

Provincially, topsoil moisture conditions have increased compared to the previous week due to rainfall. Cropland topsoil moisture is rated as two per cent surplus, 72 per cent adequate, 23 per cent short and three per cent very short.

On a blustery Father’s Day Sunday afternoon the Rhein Rockets headed south down Highway #10 to play a doubleheader against the Balcarres Bronx.

A large rabbit bumped its way across the street ahead of me as I walked the dog the other morning. Cash and I watched it make its funny zig-zag path in and out of front yards, then back onto the road, grey ears flapping, powerful hind legs pumping.

The Lutheran Church has been a landmark in Theodore for the past 100 years or so. In the early 80’s it was designated a municipal heritage site and as of last year the designation was removed and the property and building were sold.

The Fort Qu'Appelle RCMP is asking the public to help locate a dangerous, wanted individual. Over two years ago, on March 4, 2019, the Fort Qu'Appelle RCMP responded to an armed robbery at a business on Muscowpetung First Nation.

The Saskatchewan Health Authority is holding a number of walk-ins and drive-thru COVID-19 vaccine clinics across Southern and Central Saskatchewan this weekend, including in Yorkton.

The federal and provincial governments have announced $1.5 million over two years in renewed funding for Farm and Food Care Saskatchewan, Agriculture in the Classroom Saskatchewan (AITC-SK) and 4-H Saskatchewan.