A northern Saskatchewan community has been without a store for a few weeks and a local man says the community is suffering. Tracy Merasty of Sandy Bay says local residents are being forced to travel more than 70 kilometres to Pelican Narrows for their gas and...
The owner of a restaurant in Prince Albert says when he needs to hire a reliable worker for a lower paying job, the temporary foreign workers program has been a great resource. Robert Dunn owns the local Humpty’s and he says he has hired temporary foreign workers in...
A group fighting against a multi-million dollar collaboration between the northern community of Pinehouse and uranium mining companies Cameco and Areva has decided not to appeal a judge’s earlier ruling. Last month, Justice Rothery dismissed a lawsuit brought forward...
La Ronge, Saskatchewan, August 15, 2014 Missinipi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) Scholarship Selection Committee is pleased to announce the 3 Scholarship Recipients for the2014 – 2015 Academic Year.MBC Scholarships Program is designed to support &...
A public inquest into the death of a man who passed away after being in RCMP custody in Creighton last year is scheduled for next week. Forty-three-year-old Roderick Sewap was taken to the Creighton RCMP detachment on Aug. 25, 2013 after being arrested in Denare...
An autopsy is scheduled for Wednesday after a body was found in the North Saskatchewan River on the weekend. Prince Albert police say the discovery was made around 5:30 p.m. Sunday afternoon by kayakers who found the remains east of the city near the airport. The body...
RCMP believe alcohol was a factor in a single vehicle rollover on the Muscowpetung First Nation near Fort Qu’Appelle on the weekend. The driver was thrown from the vehicle and suffered undetermined injuries. He was found unconscious and was airlifted to a Regina...
A northwestern Saskatchewan First Nation is not giving up its fight to assert what it says are traditional hunting rights on a piece of land currently occupied by the Canadian military. The Buffalo River Dene Nation has been locked in a battle with the Department of...
A 22-year-old man is facing 17 charges after an accident that sent several people to hospital in the La Ronge area Thursday. The single vehicle rollover on the Bell’s Point reserve near La Ronge happened around 1:30 p.m. in the afternoon. RCMP say six people in...
The CEO of the province’s first online casino does not see the venture as a total failure even though he has been forced to shut down after two years of operation. Bernard Shepherd ran the Northern Bear online casino out of an office on the White Bear First Nation in...
