by MBC News | Jul 23, 2014
A disabled Aboriginal man is filing a human rights complaint after allegedly being kicked off a Saskatoon transit bus last week. Leslie Tataquason says he, his roommate, Karen Akan, and her two-year-old son, Kisihs Akan, boarded the crowded bus last Wednesday. After a...
by MBC News | Jul 23, 2014
STARS air ambulance service intends to expand its service to far northern Saskatchewan communities with the acquisition of a new helicopter. Funding for the $16 million dollar aircraft and $11 million dollar hangar is being supplied by Potash Corporation and pilot...
by MBC News | Jul 23, 2014
A Black Lake man has been found guilty of second-degree murder in connection to a fatal shooting three years ago. Twenty-nine-year-old Allister Donard was initially charged with first-degree murder in the death of Joey John Yooya. Yooya’s body was found in the woods...
by MBC News | Jul 23, 2014
The body of a man who fell out of a boat and into a northern Saskatchewan lake on Sunday night has been found. The body of the 32-year-old man was found yesterday at 2 p.m. in Reindeer Lake about 15 kilometres northeast of the northern community of Southend. The...
by MBC News | Jul 22, 2014
The Crown and defence both say a 70-year-old former Moosomin Day School teacher changed his ways while in prison. This is part of the reason he received the sentence he did for assaulting girls at the Moosomin Day School in the 1960s. On Monday, Morris David Hryniuk...
by MBC News | Jul 22, 2014
A retired United States coast guard officer is traveling to La Ronge to help in the search for a man who went missing a dozen years ago. In July 2002, 72-year-old Percy McKenzie was last seen near Powell Island on Lac La Ronge and he hasn’t been seen since. At the...
by MBC News | Jul 22, 2014
Wadena RCMP are on the looking for a 48-year-old man wanted in a case of sexual assault involving a teenage girl. Police say they believe Vincent Alex Desjarlais is either in Saskatchewan or Manitoba. He has connections to the Long Plain First Nation in Manitoba,...
by MBC News | Jul 21, 2014
The number of black bear sightings in the town of La Ronge continues to rise, and on the weekend one of the animals had to be destroyed. Officials with Saskatchewan Environment say 12 bears have now been trapped and re-located, and the cool spring weather is being...
by MBC News | Jul 21, 2014
Southend RCMP continue to search for a man who is believed to have drowned in Reindeer Lake on Sunday evening. Police say they received a call in the evening of a report of a man who had fallen out of a boat on the local lake. RCMP members and Saskatchewan Environment...
by MBC News | Jul 21, 2014
The 2014 North American Indigenous Games kicked off in style Sunday in Regina with opening ceremonies at Mosaic Stadium. Those in attendance were treated to live music, cultural dancing and much more. Games CEO Ron Crowe says overall things went smoothly. “When you’re...
