Yorkton This Week

Nominations are now being accepted for the province's highest honour, the Saskatchewan Order of Merit.

Saskatchewan Health Authority is notifying the public that an individual who tested COVID-19 positive visited the Starbucks location at 19-233 275 Broadway St.

Training resumed on June 12, 2020 at RCMP Academy, Depot Division, after the initial shutdown in March due to COVID-19.

There are five new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on August 27. This brings the total to 1,609 reported cases. The new cases are in the North West (3) and Saskatoon (2) zones. Of the 1,609 reported cases, 58 are considered active.

Today, NDP finance critic Trent Wotherspoon rejected the government’s first-quarter report as a “grossly inadequate” smokescreen, and committed to new measures to improve financial transparency. “This is the standard Sask.

The Conservative Party of Canada accidentally revealed a problem at their leadership vote over the weekend. I’m not talking about the extremely delayed vote count, which was attributed to a machine tearing ballots.

Warm, dry conditions continued this week which allowed crop development and maturation to progress and farmers in all regions of the province to make some harvest headway.

Forecast deficit is $2.1 billion at first quarter

Parks Canada will not be complying with requests to remove Wesley Bone from Riding Mountain National Park. The ask comes from from 26 frustrated Lake Audy area residents.

According to an Angus Reid Institute survey early this month, Saskatchewan people are among the worst “cynical spreaders” when it comes to COVID-19. It wasn’t a very nice way for the polling company to put it nor was it accurate.