Yorkton This Week

Kael DePape with the Yorkton Secon Maulers and RE/MAX Blue Chip Realty joined in a partnership over this hockey season. (See story here ).

Today, the Water Security Agency (WSA) released the March spring runoff outlook. Most of the province is facing a below normal spring runoff for 2020 as low winter snowfall levels are impacting conditions across Saskatchewan.

Innovation Saskatchewan, in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture, is asking technology entrepreneurs to develop a way for farmers, ranchers and agricultural workers to monitor their mental health.

The annual Yorkton Music Festival will be held March 9-21. As is the case every year the Festival will be adjudicator by people with a long resume in music. They include; Dr. Melissa Morgan is a choral conductor, educator and performer.

The Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) is appalled to learn that the Pesticide Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) has made final decision to cancel the approved use of strychnine to control Richardson Ground Squirrels (RGS).

The Yorkton RCMP is requesting the public's assistance to identify the subject in the attached photo who is a suspect in a recent theft. If you can identify this person please call the Yorkton RCMP or your local police.

The nice thing about Canada is that our political system makes sense. We roughly know what we’re voting for every time we go to the polls.

Simmer down. It’s what our teachers used to tell us when we were misbehaving. And it appears it’s what politicians and stakeholders behaving like unmanageable petulance children now need to hear.

On the evening of March 3, 2020, the Saskatchewan RCMP Major Crimes Unit North arrested a third individual in relation to the disappearance of 20-year-old Allan Douglas Garrioch (who also used the surname Glasier) of Humboldt, SK.

Saskatchewan Roughriders Head Coach Craig Dickenson has announced Ben Olson as the Club’s defensive line coach.