Yorkton News Review - Archive

It was a Canada Day long weekend that started out brilliantly for the Yorkton Cardinals quest to reach the WMBL Playoffs for the first time in a half decade.

With the Canada Day long weekend over and a busy sports week that saw the end of the Stanley Cup, the CFL's opening weekend, Aaron Hernandez' arrest and the NHL Draft it is time to bring back everyone's favorite self-proclaimed favorite column, Rutti

Effective July 1, 2013 the Sunrise Health Region has announced it is launching its "Respect the Boundaries" tobacco free initiative. Use of all tobacco products will now be prohibited in health facilities, on grounds and in parking lots.

The summer season has finally arrived and as you are headed out to enjoy the great outdoors, the province is reminding residents to be careful when it comes to mosquito bites.

SaskTel has announced it has saved almost 50,000 cell phones from ending up in a landfill through its Phones for a Fresh Start program.

After a largely sleepless night, spent trying in vain to get comfortable in the convection oven that is my upstairs bedroom, I have come to a startling realization: I don't actually like summer very much.

The University of Saskatchewan Board of Governors has granted its approval of the final project location at Royal University Hospital, program and schedule for Children's Hospital of Saskatchewan.

One death reported

Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister Lyle Stewart, along with agriculture industry representatives, lead a trade mission to the midwestern United States June 23-26, focused on advancing Saskatchewan grain and livestock interests in these markets.

Ed, my neighbor next door, tells me it keeps getting harder and harder to be a farmer. The tightrope walk between profit and loss is slipperier than ever.