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Yellow Grass is a town in southern Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located in the Rural Municipality of Scott No. 98, approximately 25 km northwest of Weyburn, at the junction of provincial Highway 39 and 621. The town is located on the Canadian Pacific Railway Soo Line, at an elevation of above sea level. The town was founded as an unincorporated village and named after the yellow prairie grass that surrounds the area. The town was built shortly after the railway line was completed in 1893. The town site itself was surveyed in 1882. The town applied to the Northwest Territories government July 22, 1903 and became an incorporated village. On February 15, 1906 Yellow Grass was incorporated as a town. The town itself has a primarily agricultural based economy. Like other Saskatchewan rural communities the town has seen a large portion of young residents leave to find work in other parts of Canada. Yellow Grass has grown little since the boom years in the early twentieth century; many resident families are descendants of the original pioneers.

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Yellow Grass had a population of 483 living in 191 of its 205 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 478. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

Yellow Grass has a primary agrarian economy, with many residents working as farmers, or providing services to farmers. Primary crops grown around Yellow Grass are wheat, durum wheat, barley, lentils, peas, canola, and flax. Some local producers also raise cattle, as well as bison and elk. A tertiary service industry provides general services for town residents and travelers along Highway 39. A substantial number of residents are employed in the nearby city of Weyburn, many in the manufacturing sector, retail sales, the health region, and in the oilfields. Yellow Grass has gone through a couple of boom cycles in the early years of the town. The first boom started in 1899, when most of the original town infrastructure was founded. This boom attracted many new businesses to the town, as other towns were not yet as organized. This boom would level off at the start of World War I. The second and by far the biggest boom started in the post war years and continued until the late 1920s as the trading area of the region. The building of Highway 39 and access to larger centers marked the beginning of decline of Yellow Grass as a commercial center. The onset of the Great Depression and substantial crop failures would take its toll on the town. The agricultural industry made a recovery in the post World War II years with record setting crops, and the community recovered its municipal services. In the last few decades the economy has been relatively stagnant, with most of the town's youth leaving to find employment in larger communities. Pressures on farming due to weather and high fuel and equipment costs have been keeping the growth of agriculture in check.

The railroad was the lifeblood of the town in the early years. Canadian Pacific Railway used to provide passenger train service to the town until the early 1960s. Since then travel to and from town is done almost exclusively by automobile. Today Provincial Highway 39 travels through town making a quick and convenient drive to Weyburn, as well as Regina and Moose Jaw. Twice daily passenger bus service used to be provided by STC, the provincially owned bus line, until STC ceased operations in May 2017. The railway, still owned by Canadian Pacific Railway, passes right by the town, but is not being used to collect grain anymore since late 2014 when Yellow Grass' last grain elevator was torn down, following the same trend occurring all over the prairies. The first plane landed in Yellow Grass on May 27, 1920, but no official airstrips have been established. The nearest municipal airport is in North Weyburn. Few farmers in the area have planes, as they are mainly used by crop spraying services.

From 1910 to the early 1930s Yellow Grass had a newspaper called the Yellow Grass Herald. The newspaper changed owners over the years, and names as well. It has also been titled the Yellow Grass Rag, and the Yellow Grass Journal. Very few copies of the newspapers have survived over the years. Another common news source since the 1930s has been the Weyburn Review. Today the town's news is handled primarily by online news site discoverweyburn. com, the Weyburn Review, and the Weyburn This Week, which are all based in the nearby city of Weyburn. Some news coverage is also handled by news outlets based in Regina, such as CTV News, CBC News, Global News, and the Regina Leader Post. Cable television in town is provided by Access Communications, and satellite television is provided by other providers. Several radio stations can be received in Yellow Grass, from Weyburn as well as Regina.

Yellow Grass has a town council that has been in operation since 1906. The community has been electing members since August 5, 1903 for the position of "Overseer". The overseer position is similar to that of a mayor except that there is no town council, and the primary duty is to file the annual financial statements. When the town was incorporated in 1906, the overseer position was abolished. The town held its first election to elect a mayor and six at large councillors. Elections were held every year up until the 1970s; now the town holds elections every two years. J. H. Allen became the first mayor in a hotly contested race. The first meeting of the council occurred on March 13, 1906. Residents of the town have been actively involved in both the Federal and Provincial level of politics. Currently the town is in the provincial riding of Weyburn Big Muddy and federally in the Souris—Moose Mountain. Election times have always stirred debate and rivalry among the local residents. Federally, Yellow Grass has sent one home town resident to the House of Commons of Canada. John Morrison, a Yellow Grass area farmer, ran for the Progressive Party of Canada was first elected in 1921 and defeated in 1925. A number of residents have run for provincial legislature as well, most recently including Barry Chase in Alberta. No one from Yellow Grass has successfully been elected to a provincial legislature.

Ice hockey is a popular past time in Yellow Grass. During the Great Depression when incomes prohibited buying sports equipment such as hockey pucks, a frozen potato would be used. Yellow Grass has had three contributions to the National Hockey League. Peter Schaefer, who played for the Vancouver Canucks, Ottawa Senators and the Boston Bruins Nolan Schaefer, Peter's brother played goal for the San Jose Sharks as well as many seasons in the AHL and Europe. Mike Rooney, who still resides in Yellow Grass, currently scouts for the New Jersey Devils. Mike has also worked for the Buffalo Sabres and the Nashville Predators. Yellow Grass has an organized team "Wheat Kings" that played in the Soo Line Hockey League, that went defunct in 2000. In 2016, the team joined the Big 6 Hockey League and began play in the 2016 2017 season after nearly 20 seasons of no Senior Hockey in the community. There is also a Junior C team by the same name that plays in the Qu'Appelle Valley Hockey League. The hockey rink in Yellow Grass is called the Communiplex. The government of Canada donated $11,440 to upgrade the facility as a centennial project. Curling is also a popular pastime. Yellow Grass had a team that represented Western Canada in the very first Brier. They finished in a three way tie for third place. The town named the local curling rink The Barkwell Rink in honour of the skip O. S. Barkwell. The rink was demolished in 1946, and a new rink named the Memorial Rink was completed in 1948. In the summertime baseball is the preferred sport, with the "Wheat Kings" teams going back to the early 1900s. All styles of organized baseball have been played including fastpitch softball, slow pitch, and hard ball. All other manner of sports have been organized in the town at one time or another including tennis, football, field hockey, and soccer.

During World War I and World War II the prairie provinces sent a significant portion of residents to fight for the Canadian Forces overseas. Yellow Grass was no exception, sending over 32% of the town population to fight in the Second World War. Yellow Grass would send two men to fight in the Second Boer War; both returned from combat safely. During the First World War 42 men went overseas to fight, unfortunately 14 would perish in combat, marking the most significant loss for the town during wartime. Yellow Grass sent a significant number of men to fight in the Second World War. There was a noticeable drain on the town as 167 of the 512 residents went overseas. Ten men from the town would pass away from combat. During both world wars, most of the organized clubs and sports teams halted operations, and the remaining residents focused on farming. Many of the men who fought were descendants of the first Yellow Grass soldiers in the First World War. In 1971 the Royal Canadian Legion dedicated a special section of the Yellow Grass Cemetery known as the Field of Vanquished to the Yellow Grass war dead. A full list of the Yellow Grass soldiers can be found in Our Prairie Community: Pages 162 176.