Yorkton News Review - Archive

Building permits in Saskatchewan saw a large increase in June 2016, up 28.0 per cent over last year (seasonally-adjusted), the highest percentage increase among the provinces. On the national front, building permits were down 12.

Don McMorris is not the first politician to be charged with drunk driving and he will not be the last. His case may hold the dubious distinction of being the most ironic, however.

The trend in films that Harry Potter launched is now dying out. Young adult fiction used to be the hot ticket at the cinema, and the film adaptation of the Potter series was the template that most of the series’ launched in its wake used.

Of all the trivia buried in Canada’s regulatory house of horrors, the most maddening are provincial liquor laws. But it could all soon change.

After five months of year-over-year job losses, Saskatchewan’s job creation numbers are back in positive territory. Employment in Saskatchewan increased by 800 in July 2016 over last July, according to numbers released today by Statistics Canada.

It came down hard, it came down fast and it left Yorkton reeling with 100-year floodwaters for the third time in six years.

Analog or digital? That’s the choice at the Godfrey Dean Art Gallery, as two shows running this August each embrace one side of the analog and digital divide.

The family of Mekayla Bali is continuing the search for the missing girl, who disappeared in April of this year.