by MBC News | Sep 27, 2013
A small school in northern Saskatchewan is coping with a big loss. The Wapanacak Elementary School in Pelican Narrows is planning a memorial for a little girl who died in a house fire this week. Ten-year-old Denasia Sewap was in Grade Four. The school’s...
by MBC News | Sep 27, 2013
Aboriginal HIV/AIDS prevention and intervention was the topic of discussion this week at a Saskatoon research conference. Over four days, conference participants were treated to a wide variety of workshops, keynote speakers and research panels aimed at helping...
by MBC News | Sep 27, 2013
A Saskatoon doctor says it is time we started trying to improve the social determinants of health, rather than just dealing with people once they are already sick. Ryan Meili was in the bridge city on Friday to launch the Upstream Institute for a Healthy Society,...
by MBC News | Sep 27, 2013
A man remains in hospital after an assault outside a Creighton bar last weekend — and RCMP are looking for suspects. A special investigative team from Prince Albert has been brought in to look at the case. RCMP say the incident took place outside a bar on...
by MBC News | Sep 26, 2013
A 15-year-old boy from Beardy’s and Okemasis First Nation is facing several charges after employees at a school in Duck Lake received threats. Rosthern RCMP say shortly after 4 p.m. Wednesday, police received a call that a student had threatened to shoot three...
by MBC News | Sep 26, 2013
Regina Police are looking for clues after the death of a 21-year-old woman. Shortly after 7 p.m. Wednesday evening, officers were called to an alley in the 1700 block of McAra Street where they found the body of Kelly Nicole Goforth. It is Regina’s seventh murder of...
by MBC News | Sep 26, 2013
Despite some local opposition, a plan to increase the maximum height of lakefront dwellings on Lac La Ronge is going ahead. La Ronge town council heard two presentations on the matter at a meeting last night and a bylaw amendment passed second and third readings. The...
by MBC News | Sep 26, 2013
The federal government has given $128,000 to help ensure homeless people looking for a good meal in Saskatoon’s core area can get one. The money has gone toward renovating the Central Urban Métis Federation Incorporated’s basement kitchen. CUMFI Executive Director...
by MBC News | Sep 26, 2013
RCMP suspect a 10-year-old girl perished in a house fire in Pelican Narrows earlier this week. Mounties say the fire broke out at around 1:30 Tuesday morning at the home of an elderly couple and their 10-year-old great granddaughter. The couple was able to escape from...
by MBC News | Sep 25, 2013
The La Ronge area got a lot of attention at today’s Northern Excellence Awards in Prince Albert. The event was organized by New North as part of this week’s Northern Symposium for Safer and Healthier Communities. La Ronge’s Trudy Connor was named...
