by MBC News | Aug 16, 2013 | Current News
A Saskatchewan union says large areas of northern Saskatchewan are currently without wildfire detection services, putting families and communities at risk. SGEU president Bob Bymoen says fire towers are being dismantled as government moves to an automated video...
by MBC News | Aug 16, 2013 | Current News
A man from the Montreal Lake Cree Nation has been granted statutory release, seven years after he kidnapped an 11 year-old girl from Shellbook.Linden David Jessie Bird will be required to live at an approved location, refrain from alcohol and immediately report any...
by MBC News | Aug 16, 2013 | Current News
A judge has granted a temporary injunction which allows a company to continue exploring for oil on the Thunderchild First Nation free of interference from protesters. The week-long injunction was granted Friday morning by Justice Gerald Allbright at Court of Queen’s...
by MBC News | Aug 16, 2013 | Current News
The Transportation Safety Board has released its findings into a fatal crash that happened in central Saskatchewan last year. The two planes collided in mid-air near St. Brieux on May 12, 2012. One of the planes was traveling from Alberta to St. Brieux while the other...
by MBC News | Aug 16, 2013 | Current News
A fire near Fond Du Lac that began on July 5 continues to burn away. The Helmer Fire measures 33 kilometres by 10 kilometres and is still not contained. Scott Wasylenchuk is the manager of the provincial fire centre for the province. He says they are paying close...
by MBC News | Aug 16, 2013 | Current News
The case against a man charged with murdering an Aboriginal woman from Saskatoon in 2004 took yet another turn this week. Thirty-five-year-old Douglas Hales was charged with first-degree murder in 2008 in the death of twenty-six-year-old Daleen Bosse but the case has...
by MBC News | Aug 16, 2013 | Current News
Aboriginal youth from all over Saskatchewan and Canada were pitching business ideas to a panel of judges in Regina Friday. It is part of the fifth annual Aboriginal Youth Entrepreneurship Camp put on by the First Nations University of Canada. Students like Jackson...
by MBC News | Aug 16, 2013 | Current News
Police have located a missing girl. Fourteen-year-old Morgan Hystad was located safe and sound by RCMP officers in Prince Albert. She ran away from a campsite at Devil’s Lake on Aug. 3. Authorities are still looking for her friend, 15-year-old Tristyne Ballantyne....
by MBC News | Aug 15, 2013 | Current News
There are now calls for the resignation of the entire band council of the Pheasant Rump First Nation in southeast Saskatchewan. It is the latest chapter in the saga of a disgraced chief who is now out on bail after being convicted of sexual assault of a teenaged girl....
by MBC News | Aug 15, 2013 | Current News
A court injunction has been filed against protesters on the Thunderchild First Nation. The citizens began protesting oil drilling they say was set to happen on their Sundance grounds. As a result, the members have been camped out on the site for the past few weeks....
