Yorkton This Week

An apartment building in Esterhazy has now been demolished after being damaged by fire over the summer.

Applications are now being accepted for the 2021 Saskatchewander. In its 11th year, this program is looking for the next enthusiastic person who can showcase all the great things Saskatchewan has to offer.

LOCHABER – Merle Taylor, who lives where the highway sneaks down to the lake she first glimpsed in the springtime of 1945, is foremost a teacher. And, while she’s personable and outgoing, I’m more comfortable calling her “Mrs. Taylor.

Forty-eight people are in hospital

Our prairie landscape is always changing, but the one thing that identifies itself to travellers and locals has always been the grain elevators.

The annual Remembrance Day service usually fills the Flexihall at the Gallagher Centre, as people across Yorkton gather to remember the sacrifices of Canadian veterans who served over the generations.

As the sun breaks over the central Newfoundland town of Gander on Remembrance Day, the graves of servicemen buried in the town’s Commonwealth War Graves site will slowly start to come into focus.

In the Second World War, a group of young Canadian airmen, mostly from this region, became a big band that played with music's top names — even Glenn Miller approved — and brought a welcome boost and 'taste of home' to our troops fighting in Europe.

One hundred and two years ago, on November 11th at 11 a.m., an Armistice agreement ended the First World War.

Philip Favel, 98, has never stopped fighting for Indigenous veterans since he landed on Juno Beach. On Sunday, the Canadian War Museum unveiled a portrait honouring him for Indigenous Veterans Day.