by MBC News | Oct 27, 2015
It is looking like someone is $1.5 million richer after playing a slot machine at Prince Albert’s Northern Lights Casino. Someone hit the Smoke Signals progressive jackpot shortly after midnight this morning. The actual winning total was $1,565,819.28. The win...
by MBC News | Oct 27, 2015
On Monday, Prince Albert Grand Council’s vice-chief said an agreement between its 12 member First Nations and the RCMP is “historic.” PAGC and the Mounties signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for search and rescue missions that will clear things up when...
by MBC News | Oct 27, 2015
The RCMP’s Major Crime Unit is investigating a suspicious death on the Piapot First Nation. Mounties say a man was found dead outside a reserve residence today. Southey RCMP, the RCMP’s Regina General Investigation Section and its Forensic Identification...
by MBC News | Oct 27, 2015
There’s a lot on the agenda for Prince Albert Grand Council’s annual assembly this week. On Monday, hundreds of delegates at the Senator Allen Bird Memorial Centre saw opening remarks from leadership, a summary of how the year went for the PAGC, scholarship...
by MBC News | Oct 27, 2015
The chief of the Onion Lake Cree Nation is facing a number of charges including two counts of assault, possession of a knife for a dangerous purpose and threatening to damage property. Fifty-four-year-old Wallace Fox was arrested yesterday in connection with the...
by MBC News | Oct 27, 2015
Using a forged treaty number to hunt moose and deer has landed a Weyburn man in big trouble with wildlife officials. Thirty-five-year-old Dustin Hoskins was fined $5,000 and banned from hunting for two years after being convicted of a number of offences, including...
by MBC News | Oct 26, 2015
The federal government has lost round one in its battle to impose the First Nations Financial Transparency Act, but the law is still on the books and funding is still being withheld to bands who refuse to comply. On Friday, a federal court judge in Saskatoon handed...
by MBC News | Oct 26, 2015
An RCMP officer who had been serving as a member of the Buffalo Narrows detachment earlier this year has been charged with sexual assault. On May 20, an alleged sexual assault happened at a social event Constable Randy McKay had been attending at home in Dillon, while...
by MBC News | Oct 26, 2015
First Nations, community groups and government agencies will come together to develop a process to review domestic violence deaths in the province. Justice Minister Gordon Wyant says the problem must be addressed as part of a broad, long-term strategy to curb domestic...
by MBC News | Oct 26, 2015
Accepting the outstanding operations and management award on behalf of Keethanow Bingo North is Dennis Sanderson (L). Next to him is IGR Vice President Diego Monteiro and CEO Greg Ahenakew. The Indigenous Gaming Regulators handed out awards Friday to First Nation...
