by MBC News | Aug 12, 2015 | Current News
Liberal leader Justin Trudeau says his government would hold an inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women, implement all of the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee and increase funding for First Nations education. He made the commitment...
by MBC News | Aug 11, 2015 | Current News
Prince Albert officers are about to diversify. The service is announcing that community safety officers (CSOs) will take on traffic and liquor law enforcement, bylaw enforcement, and act as crime prevention community liaisons. The CSOs are less trained than police...
by MBC News | Aug 11, 2015 | Current News
For the first time in quite a while, the man who tried to murder Marlene Bird last summer was present in Prince Albert court. Leslie Ivan Roderick Black was arrested last summer in relation to the brutal violence. His attendance has been waived in Prince Albert for...
by MBC News | Aug 11, 2015 | Current News
Despite some major challenges caused by forest fires, an airport and roadway upgrade at Stony Rapids is expected to be completed on time and on budget. It’s a $14 million project that will see some major improvements to the airport and service road. Points Athabasca...
by MBC News | Aug 11, 2015 | Current News
Prince Albert police have found their suspect in four armed robberies that happened over the course of a week and a half. The pattern of the crime was a woman brandishing a needle, threatening staff, and demanding cash in Prince Albert businesses. Carmine Patty...
by MBC News | Aug 10, 2015 | Current News
Regina police have made an arrest after issuing a province-wide arrest warrant for a suspect in an assault with a blade and other weapons that sent a man to hospital on Sunday. Police say the violence was not random, and that a 25-year-old man was sent to hospital...
by MBC News | Aug 10, 2015 | Current News
A new face representing the Green Party in a northern Saskatchewan riding plans to stand out against political veterans this federal election. The Green Party’s Warren Koch is a nurse who’s been elected to represent nurses in provincial groups, but is the only...
by MBC News | Aug 10, 2015 | Current News
The Ochapowace First Nation, about 185 kilometers east of Regina, has more than doubled in population as it hosts an event that has been part of aboriginal history in Saskatchewan since 1974. More than 3,000 aboriginal athletes from 71 First Nations have descended on...
by MBC News | Aug 10, 2015 | Current News
Canine officers with Saskatoon Police Service tracked down two 16-year-old boys in relation to a car theft early Sunday morning. The car had been reported missing earlier, when an officer spotted it. After that, two males ran from the vehicle, which was parked in the...
by MBC News | Aug 8, 2015 | Current News
Hugo Gallegos stood to his feet in a packed Saskatoon courtroom today, pleading guilty to six fraud and theft-related charges. Between 2009 and 2013, Gallegos stole $5.8 million from the Whitecap Dakota First Nation while employed as an accountant for the band....
