by MBC News | May 14, 2013 | Current News
Some of the top housing analysts, experts, and innovators from across Canada are wrapping up a two day brainstorming session in Regina. The goal is to come up with effective ways to deal with the affordable housing crises impacting many Canadian cities. The forum was...
by MBC News | May 14, 2013 | Current News
A Poundmaker First Nation man has been sentenced to three years in a federal jail as the result of a car accident which killed his best friend last summer. Robert Wilfred Badger pleaded guilty to three charges including impaired driving causing the death of Ryan James...
by MBC News | May 14, 2013 | Current News
A major economic conference kicked off in Saskatoon Tuesday morning. Whitecap Dakota First Nation Chief Darcy Bear is one of the co-chairs of Saskatchewan Forum 2013. He says First Nations people have always wanted to be part of the economy but regressive pieces of...
by MBC News | May 13, 2013 | Current News
They were prepared for the worst and hoping for the best, and in the end Saskatchewan escaped relatively unharmed from the spring melt. The worst is now over in a year that saw almost a third of the province under the threat of moderate to severe flooding. Patrick...
by MBC News | May 13, 2013 | Current News
RCMP are investigating after a three-year-old child drowned in Pinehouse Lake on Saturday night. Police say they received a call of a missing child at 6:50 p.m. and the child was located by a local resident at 7:35 p.m. The child was transported to the Pinehouse...
by MBC News | May 13, 2013 | Current News
There’s no word on the current condition of a woman that was struck by a vehicle while walking on the Sturgeon Lake reserve over the weekend. The pedestrian received serious injuries in the incident, which took place early Saturday evening. She was eventually...
by MBC News | May 13, 2013 | Current News
The 27th annual Career Symposium and Job Fair was held Monday at the Jonas Roberts Memorial Community Centre in La Ronge. The event is organized by the Interprovincial Association on Native Employment, Keewatin Chapter. Organizing committee member Cathy Wheaton says...
by MBC News | May 10, 2013 | Current News
One new Saskatchewan First Nation will likely soon be added to the six already in a state of emergency because of spring flooding. Onion Lake, Cowessess, James Smith, Muscowpetung, Sakimay and Poundmaker are already in a declared state of emergency. Colin King, with...
by MBC News | May 10, 2013 | Current News
A man accused of killing an Onion Lake Cree Nation woman in Saskatoon nine years ago remains without a lawyer. Douglas Hales of White Fox is charged with first-degree murder and offering an indignity to a human body in the 2004 death of Daleen Bosse. Appearing in...
by MBC News | May 10, 2013 | Current News
A company with a gold mine in northern Saskatchewan is reporting a first quarter net loss of $2.5 million. That compares to a net loss of $500,000 for Claude Resources for the same three months a year ago. President Neil McMillan says production in the first quarter...
