by MBC News | Nov 22, 2011
About 500 people participated in a feast and round dance in North Battleford this past weekend to honour residential school survivors. The event was organized by the Sunchild Law Office of the Battlefords area. The firm represents about 700 residential school...
by MBC News | Nov 21, 2011
Investigators are on the scene of a fatal house fire on the Ahtahkakoop First Nation. Two bodies have been pulled from the wreckage, while a four-year-old girl is being treated in hospital for smoke inhalation. The blaze occurred sometime after 1:30 this morning....
by MBC News | Nov 21, 2011
A Prince Albert man has made his first court appearance on accusations he drunkenly ran his car into a northern teenager over the weekend. The 17-year-old girl was walking in the city’s West Flat Saturday night when the vehicle struck and killed her. Family...
by MBC News | Nov 21, 2011
A vast herd of northern caribou that scientists feared had vanished from the face of the Earth has been found, safe and sound — pretty much where Aboriginal elders said it would be. The Beverly herd, which roams from northern Saskatchewan to the Arctic coast,...
by MBC News | Nov 21, 2011
The RCMP is asking for the public’s help in identifying a male who briefly abducted a teenage girl in La Ronge earlier this month. At approximately 8:30 p.m. on November 9th, the teen was walking alone on a road on the Jackpine Reserve in the La Ronge area when...
by MBC News | Nov 21, 2011
A familiar moustache in Saskatchewan is about to be shaved off as part of “Movember”. Metis Nation – Saskatchewan president Robert Doucette, who has sported facial hair for the past 30 years, says he is ready to do his part to battle prostate cancer...
by MBC News | Nov 18, 2011
A mining official says a federal draft recovery strategy for woodland caribou could effectively “shut down” economic and social development in northern Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan Mining Association executive director Pam Schwann says Ottawa has concluded...
by MBC News | Nov 18, 2011
The person charged with manslaughter in the death of a La Ronge man last winter has had the charge against him stayed. The charge was laid against 23-year-old Corey Alexander Clarke in February 2010. The body of a 40-year-old man had been found on a road on the...
by MBC News | Nov 18, 2011
A La Ronge woman has received a fine and probation for her part in a fatal hit-and-run from last year. On October 9th, 19-year-old Sheena Billette was arrested after the death of Carl Lance Smith of Pinehouse. The 21-year-old man was hit by a vehicle while walking...
by MBC News | Nov 18, 2011
An inmate at the Saskatchewan Penitentiary says he worries the Stephen Harper government’s so-called “tough on crime” legislation could lead to increased tensions at the jail. Richard Leber is a spokesman for the inmate welfare committee at the...
