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Five members of the Yorkton Pirates Tennis Club took to the road to compete at the Provincial Indoor Open at Saskatoon’s Lakewood Indoor Tennis Centre from April 23-26.

The Parkland ‘AAA’ Expos opened their inaugural Saskatchewan Premier Baseball League (SPBL) season up with a pair of road games Saturday afternoon in Swift Current against the hometown Indians.

The 17th annual Prairie Wildfire Taekwondo Challenge was once again a success, despite Yorkton Kee’s Taekwondo opting to move the event forward some six months in the hopes of drawing in new athletes.

Normal grandpas take their grand kids out for supper sometimes. They’ll go fishing with their grandchildren (if the child wants to); they’ll maybe even spoil them with some presents here and there, if their parents aren’t looking of course.

Roby Sharpe is almost never silent. The boisterous, rambunctious, happy-go-lucky head coach of the YRHS senior football team and president of Yorkton Minor Football is well known throughout the community for his loud voice and infectious spirit.

The Yorkton Regional High School played host to a nine year CFL veteran Thursday afternoon as current CFL free agent safety and Grey Cup champion J.R. LaRose, who has spent time in the CFL with both the Edmonton Eskimos and B.C.

Spring has arrived in Yorkton and with that comes something that many youth in the city have been waiting for since the autumn of 2014.

A very special guest delivered a very important message to students at Yorkton’s Dr. Brass School last Wednesday, April 22.

Two professional wrestlers that had once called Yorkton their home returned to the city last Wednesday, April 22, with the hopes of picking up big W’s over a pair of talented wrestlers.

The Yorkton Storm Swim Club (YSSC) sent 15 swimmers to Saskatoon this past weekend where they competed in the Saskatoon Lasers Septathlon event at the Shaw Centre. This was the first Long Course swim meet of the season.