Category Archives: Yorkton News
Melville applies for PDAP support due to flooding
The City of Melville has applied for support through the Provincial Disaster Assistance Program (PDAP) after receiving significant rainfall Aug. 7. Mayor Joe Kirwan said the community received a signi...
Aug 26, 2025 Melville's city hall.Photo sourced from the City of Melville's Facebook page
Legacy Co-op announces $18.5 million travel centre for Yorkton region
Legacy Co-op has announced plans to build a $18.5 million Travel Centre at the corner of Highway 9 and Grain Millers Road, aimed at providing professional drivers, RV travellers and local motorists wi...
Aug 25, 2025 A new Legacy Co-op Travel Centre will operate 24 hours a day and will include fuelling (diesel and gasoline), DEF, showers, washrooms, laundry and a truckers’ lounge. Photo Courtesy: Legacy Co-op
Golf tournament raises $18,000 for Yorkton Hospital oncology upgrades
A Yorkton-area golf tournament has raised $18,000 for the Health Foundation of East Central Saskatchewan to support upgrades to the oncology program at the Yorkton Regional Health Centre. Organizer Al...
Aug 25, 2025 Alec Zawatsky and family present the cheque to the Health Foundation. (Photo: Greg and Leone Ottenbreit, Alec, Claire and Edward Zawatsky with Executive Director of the Health Foundation Ross Fischer)
New Suncrest College graduates join SPSA to battle northern Sask. wildfires
A group of new firefighters is putting their training to the test just days after graduating from Suncrest College. Eighteen students completed the 20-week Professional Firefighter Qualification progr...
Aug 22, 2025 Photo: Suncrest College
Province-wide SaskTel wireless outage affecting residents across Saskatchewan
SaskTel is currently experiencing a province-wide service outage that is affecting both cellular network calls and Business Voice services. 9- 1-1 emergency calls are not affected by the current outag...
Aug 22, 2025
Carlyle RCMP seek driver in hit and run near Alameda
Carlyle RCMP are asking for the public's help in locating the driver of a white Dodge Ram truck involved in a hit and run around 7:00 a.m on August 22nd on Highway 9, just north of Alameda . The lifte...
Aug 22, 2025 A File photo of an RCMP Cruiser. (Harvard Media News)
One dead, several injured in two-vehicle crash near Wolseley, Sask.
One person was killed and several others injured Tuesday evening in a two-vehicle collision in the Rural Municipality of Wolseley, Sask., RCMP say. Indian Head RCMP said they were called to the scene ...
Aug 21, 2025
Moe calls for stronger federal push as China's canola tariffs hit Saskatchewan farmers
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says the province is ready to support Ottawa in negotiating an end to steep Chinese tariffs on Canadian canola seed. Moe met with federal Agriculture Minister Heath MacD...
Aug 21, 2025 Canola plants bloom in a pasture on a farm near Cremona, Alta., Friday, July 18, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
Moe confident in future of BHP Jansen project despite delay
BHP says its Jansen potash mine will face major delays and cost overruns, less than a year after the company reported construction was ahead of schedule. According to the company's 2025 operational re...
Aug 21, 2025 Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe listens to a question from the media during the 2025 summer meetings of Canada’s Premiers at Deerhurst Resort in Huntsville, Ont., on Wednesday, July 23, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Province commits to major investment in Grain Millers Drive north of Yorkton
A major transportation corridor north of Yorkton is set for long-awaited improvements as the Government of Saskatchewan announced it will cover up to half the cost of upgrading Grain Millers Drive. Th...
Aug 20, 2025 Highway Minister David Marit, Yorkton MLA David Chan, Agriculture Minister Daryl Harrison, Premier Scott Moe, Yorkton Mayor Aaron Kienle, Reeve of RM of Orkney Randy Trost. (Photo: Tanner Wallace-Scribner)
