by MBC News | Nov 4, 2015
The snowy owl rescued in La Ronge. Photo courtesy Facebook, Transwest Air. A provincial authority on birds is weighing in on the recent plight of more than a dozen snowy owls. There have been reports of about 16 snowy owls that are either extremely weak or dead...
by MBC News | Nov 4, 2015
Lac La Ronge Indian Band Chief Tammy Cook-Searson. Photo courtesy Facebook. Lac La Ronge Indian Band Chief Tammy Cook-Searson is back in northern Saskatchewan after travelling to Brazil for the inaugural World Indigenous Games. Cook-Searson says it was an amazing...
by MBC News | Nov 3, 2015
The results from the judicial recount in Desnethe-Missinippi-Churchill River are in — and they show that the NDP’s Georigina Jolibois is still the MP in northern Saskatchewan. The initial vote count gave Jolibois a 70-vote victory over the Liberals’...
by MBC News | Nov 3, 2015
A murder conviction has brought back a lot of painful emotions for a Saskatoon woman. In 2005, Crystal LaPlante’s father John Richard Roy, 53, was stabbed 18 times by his common-law partner’s son, Jordan Thomas Lumberjack. And after Lumberjack served his...
by MBC News | Nov 3, 2015
About 40 people attended a public forum about break-ins and vandalism to homes on a La Ronge-area reserve on Monday night. The Bell’s Point reserve was the scene of a suspicious house fire last week – a fire that local Mounties confirm was preceded by...
by MBC News | Nov 3, 2015
The 24-year-old man injured in a police-involved shooting at Red Earth First Nation will be in court later this week. Mario Whitehead is scheduled to appear in Carrot River Court on Thursday. The incident happened on October 17th when Carrot River RCMP were called to...
by MBC News | Nov 3, 2015
Representatives of Saskatchewan Environment continue the task of assessing the Woodland Caribou population in northern Saskatchewan. Meetings were held last week in Nipawin, La Ronge and Ile-a-la-Crosse to update interested members of the public on how the process is...
by MBC News | Nov 2, 2015
First responders, volunteers and other agencies that helped in some way with this summer’s wildfire crisis in northern Saskatchewan were recognized in the Legislature on Monday. Premier Brad Wall introduced 180 individuals who played a part in the...
by MBC News | Nov 2, 2015
Cameco says Cigar Lake mine is proving to be a high point in a market flooded with too much uranium. On Monday, the uranium mining giant held a conference to discuss some highlights from its third quarter financials, which covers the end of July to the end of...
by MBC News | Nov 2, 2015
A man who’s serving life for a grisly Prince Albert murder is pursuing his last chance at an acquittal. In late 2013, John Thomas Shaoulle was convicted in the first-degree murder of Margaret Sewap, who was 33 at the time of her death. However, in October...
