About Yorkton This Week

Yorkton This Week

Overview

Yorkton This Week is a weekly newspaper published in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, by Glacier Media. It appears in print each week — media directories list Wednesday as its publication day — and its reporting is distributed digitally through SaskToday.ca, the provincial news website. The 2025 Saskatchewan Media Directory describes it as "a weekly newspaper that delivers news, sports, community events and classifieds to the Yorkton region," and the paper's own recruitment material describes its reporters covering courts, crime, local governments, school boards and First Nations across east central Saskatchewan. Yorkton This Week is not an independent newspaper, despite older directory shorthand: it has belonged to a succession of newspaper chains for decades and has been part of Glacier Media since 2004. The paper's roots run back to 1896, when the Yorkton Enterprise — the title today's paper descends from — was founded, and the "This Week" name itself dates to a locally launched challenger paper of 1975. Its newsroom works alongside three sister Glacier weeklies in the region, the Canora Courier, the Preeceville Progress and the Kamsack Times, sharing an east central Saskatchewan reporting team.

History

Newspapering in Yorkton began, according to a 2024 local history podcast on the city's press, with The Messenger in 1892, two years before Yorkton was officially incorporated as a village. The direct ancestor of today's paper, the Yorkton Enterprise, was started in 1896 by J. Peaker, who had gained his newspaper experience in his home county of Broadacres, England. The type-printed paper was produced in a former Methodist church on Third Avenue, and its first issue came out late on a Saturday night to crowds waiting at the publishing office. The Enterprise moved premises in 1909 and again in 1930, and saw off two short-lived competitors, The Times and The Press, during decades of stability as the community's dominant newspaper.

The Enterprise was sold in 1968 to the Thomson Newspaper Company, part of the Thomson chain that then held newspapers across Canada, the United States and Britain. Competition returned in 1975, when Eddie Betker, Dick DeRyk and Bob Thom founded Yorkton This Week as an upstart weekly taking on the Thomson-owned incumbent. DeRyk, one of the founders and the new paper's editor, later recalled that the two papers competed head-to-head for more than fifteen years. The rivalry ended in 1990, when the Armadale Company Ltd. bought both papers and amalgamated them into a single title, Yorkton This Week & Enterprise. In December 1995 the combined paper was sold, along with the rest of the Armadale chain, to Hollinger Ltd. The Estevan Mercury purchased the paper in 2001 and shortened its name back to Yorkton This Week. In 2004 Glacier Media acquired the paper as part of the Boundary Group of newspapers, beginning the ownership that continues today. Glacier's 2023 annual information form, filed in March 2024, still lists Yorkton This Week — together with its companion Yorkton Marketplace publication — among the company's Saskatchewan weeklies, alongside the Assiniboia Times, Carlyle Observer, Estevan Mercury, Weyburn Review, Weyburn This Week, Battlefords News-Optimist, The Outlook, Canora Courier, Kamsack Times, Preeceville Progress and Southwest Booster.

Programming and Content

The paper covers the standard beats of a Saskatchewan regional weekly: municipal councils, courts and crime, school boards, First Nations, agriculture, sports and community events across Yorkton and the surrounding east central region. Glacier Media's recruitment posting for its east central Saskatchewan multimedia reporter — a position based in Canora and serving Yorkton This Week and the Canora Courier — describes the coverage area as the rural region surrounding Yorkton, including Canora, Preeceville, Kamsack, Langenburg, Foam Lake, Wadena, Kelvington, Wroxton, Churchbridge and Saltcoats, with the reporter focusing on courts, crime, local governments, school boards and First Nations. Stories produced by this shared team are distributed in the weekly print editions of Yorkton This Week, the Canora Courier, the Preeceville Progress and the Kamsack Times, across the province through SaskToday.ca, and to other news outlets through the federal Local Journalism Initiative. Recent Yorkton This Week reporting carried on SaskToday.ca in the autumn of 2026 is dominated by exactly that agenda: a steady run of Yorkton Provincial Court and Court of King's Bench coverage — drug trafficking arrests, a manslaughter sentencing, a concluded murder preliminary hearing — alongside community items such as a cross-country runner's passage through the city, an immigration partnership's presentation to city council and a new restaurant opening. Alongside news and sports, the paper carries classified advertising, and Glacier also publishes the companion Yorkton Marketplace title listed with it in the company's filings.

Audience and Reach

Yorkton is the regional service centre for east central Saskatchewan, and the paper's reporting footprint extends well beyond the city limits into the farming communities and First Nations of the surrounding region — the ten communities named in Glacier's reporter posting give a fair picture of the territory its journalism is expected to cover. The audience is reached in three ways: through the weekly print edition distributed in Yorkton, through the shared print editions of its sister weeklies in Canora, Preeceville and Kamsack, and digitally through SaskToday.ca, which carries Yorkton This Week stories to a province-wide readership and feeds them to other outlets through the Local Journalism Initiative. No audited circulation figure for the paper is published in the sources consulted for this profile, and none is claimed here. The City of Yorkton continues to treat the paper as its newspaper of record: the city's relocation guide, published in January 2026, lists Yorkton This Week among the community's media.

Digital Presence

Yorkton This Week's working digital home is SaskToday.ca, where its stories are published under the paper's name; the 2025 Saskatchewan Media Directory gives the paper's website simply as sasktoday.ca. That platform has changed hands: Harvard Media, the Saskatchewan broadcaster that is part of the 121-year-old Hill Companies and already operates Yorkton radio stations GX94 and Fox FM, announced in 2025 that it had acquired SaskToday.ca from Glacier Media, saying the move extended its digital footprint and deepened its local news coverage across the province. The print weeklies themselves remained Glacier publications — the 2025 provincial directory lists the paper's contact email at glaciermedia.ca — with their reporting continuing to flow onto the platform. The paper also maintains a social media presence under the handle @YorktonThisWeek. One caution for directory users: the standalone domain yorktonthisweek.ca, long associated with the paper, currently displays only a "Launching Soon" placeholder page (carrying a 2025 copyright line) rather than the paper's content, and Yorkton's own 2026 relocation guide prints yet another address, yorktonthisweek.com. Readers looking for the paper's current reporting should go through SaskToday.ca.

Ownership and Organisation

Yorkton This Week is owned by Glacier Media, the publicly traded Canadian information and community media company, which acquired it in 2004 with the Boundary Group of newspapers. Glacier's Saskatchewan division operates a dozen weekly titles, and Yorkton This Week is produced within a regional structure: its 2025 directory listing shows a Yorkton office at 20 – 3rd Avenue North (Box 1300, Yorkton, SK S3N 2X3) with John Bauman listed as publisher and advertising manager, while editorial coverage is supplied by the shared east central Saskatchewan reporting team that also serves the Canora Courier, Preeceville Progress and Kamsack Times. That structure is the modern reality of the paper: a historic local masthead, chain ownership, and a regional newsroom whose work appears across four print weeklies and a provincial website. The paper began the twentieth century as a locally owned pioneer journal, spent its middle decades under Thomson, Armadale and Hollinger, and has now spent more than two decades in the Glacier stable — a longer tenure than any of its previous chain owners managed.

Contact and Availability

Yorkton This Week is published weekly in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, with media directories listing Wednesday as its publication day. Its office is at 20 – 3rd Avenue North, Box 1300, Yorkton, SK S3N 2X3, telephone (306) 782-2465, as listed in the 2025 Saskatchewan Media Directory, which also gives the newsroom contact address as ytw@png.glaciermedia.ca and advertising contacts under the yorktonthisweek.com domain. Current stories from the paper can be read on SaskToday.ca, where its court, council and community reporting for the Yorkton region is published as it is produced, ahead of its appearance in the weekly print edition. Readers should note that the yorktonthisweek.ca domain itself presently shows only a placeholder page, so the SaskToday platform — not the standalone domain — is the reliable route to the paper's journalism.