Yorkton News Review - Archive

RCMP have issued a Canada-wide warrant for a man they says could be armed and dangerous. On August 4, 2014 shortly after 3:00 p.m., Fox Creek RCMP officers responded to a complaint of a female who was abducted by a male with a firearm.

She's being compared to the likes of Natasha Bedingfield and Alicia Keys and very soon Yorkton and area residents will be treated to her sounds.

Cadet Kelsey Valuck of Yorkton was recently selected as the best cadet in 15 Platoon in the second intake of General Military Training at Vernon (British Columbia) Army Cadet Summer Training Centre.

Do you think maybe 100 or so test meters would have been a good plan before they set about installing 105,000 of them? Yeesh...

League Playoffs for five consecutive seasons, the Yorkton Cardinals entered the 2014 season hoping to give the city playoff baseball in the WMBL for the first August in a half decade when the team was assembled leading up to the summer.

To the Editor: Canadians might be surprised to learn that 86 families now hold more wealth than the poorest 11.4 million Canadians. Is this a Canada to be proud of? Hardly. According to many studies, the Canadian poverty rate remains high.

After winning his first Stanley Cup, Los Angeles Kings forward and Yorkton product Jarret Stoll brought hockey's most famous prize back to the Parkland area in a celebration that funded KidSport to give opportunities to local athletes around the area

There's work underway across the entire province so if we want to see goals accomplished and workers home safe at the end of the day - SLOW DOWN out there.

It has affected people in the Yorkton area in the past and it can happen to you too if you don't take precautions as it is preventable.

To the Editor: No surprise to anyone - the United States marketplace has changed since the NAFTA made world headlines in the 1990's. Since then the United States has been buffeted in ways few would have contemplated.