Leaders To Discuss Violence Against Native Women

Leaders To Discuss Violence Against Native Women Monday, September 26, 2005 at 14:45     The issue of violence against Aboriginal women will be discussed at a major government policy forum next year.   Deb Higgins, the minister responsible for the Status of Women in...

SIIT Joining Battle Against Crystal Meth

SIIT Joining Battle Against Crystal Meth Monday, September 26, 2005 at 14:41     The Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies has been awarded $851,000 to administer a program aimed at preventing crystal meth abuse in First Nations and Inuit communities across...

Scotiabank Chosen To Handle Primrose Trust Fund

Scotiabank Chosen To Handle Primrose Trust Fund Monday, September 26, 2005 at 14:37     The chair of the Primrose Lake Air Weapons Range Negotiating Committee says his group is very close to finalizing an economic development package with the provincial and federal...

Teenaged Killer From La Loche Pleads Guilty

Teenaged Killer From La Loche Pleads Guilty Monday, September 26, 2005 at 14:30     A 17-year-old from La Loche who stabbed a man in the heart in Saskatoon a couple of years ago pleaded guilty to second-degree murder this past Friday.   He has been allowed to return...

MNS Obstruction Case Adjourned Until December

MNS Obstruction Case Adjourned Until December Monday, September 26, 2005 at 14:27     A preliminary hearing will take place in December for a man accused of wrongdoing in the 2004 Metis Nation of Saskatchewan election.   31-year-old Shane Goldie appeared last Thursday...

Thieves Raid Patuanak Gas Bar

Thieves Raid Patuanak Gas Bar Monday, September 26, 2005 at 14:25     RCMP in Patuanak are asking for the public’s assistance in regards to a recent break-in at a local gas bar.   The Mounties say the Patuanak Gas Bar was broken into sometime early Friday...

Meadow Lake Car Chase Erupts In Gun Fire

Meadow Lake Car Chase Erupts In Gun Fire Friday, September 23, 2005 at 13:33     RCMP in Meadow Lake continue to investigate a shooting that happened just west of Makwa Lake.   On Tuesday evening, shortly before midnight, the occupants of 2 vehicles on Highway 304...

Primrose Committee To Hire Banking Officials

Primrose Committee To Hire Banking Officials Friday, September 23, 2005 at 13:32     Representatives of 4 Métis communities in Northwestern Saskatchewan will select banking officials to safeguard their money this weekend.   Beginning Sunday afternoon at a meeting in...

PA Official Says Fuel Prices Are About To Soar

PA Official Says Fuel Prices Are About To Soar Friday, September 23, 2005 at 13:30     You may want to think about filling up your gas-tank.   Various media reports indicate Hurricane Rita may cause a rise in the cost at the pumps throughout North America.   Nicole...

CBC Stages Protest In La Ronge

CBC Stages Protest In La Ronge Friday, September 23, 2005 at 13:29     Local CBC announcer, Tom Roberts, was joined yesterday by 20 of his locked out colleagues to stage a protest at the CBC office in La Ronge.   The information picket is a first since the over 5500...