by MBC News | Oct 9, 2015
The man charged with killing Monica Burns has changed lawyers. Todd McKeaveney was arrested for second-degree murder in January. Burns’ body had been found dumped on a snowmobile trail outside Prince Albert about a week earlier. McKeaveney has already entered a...
by MBC News | Oct 8, 2015
A judge will take four months to consider the evidence in a Fond du Lac child pornography trial. The accused, Aiden Pratchett worked with the RCMP when his online file sharing was flagged last fall. Ever since he was charged with accessing and possessing child porn in...
by MBC News | Oct 8, 2015
Several potential candidates in the upcoming Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations elections were not allowed to run because they failed to provide a vulnerable sector check. Now, one of the disallowed candidates in the election for the Office of the Second...
by MBC News | Oct 8, 2015
Officials in Wollaston Lake are making plans to officially open the community’s fish processing plant. The facility is the first-CFIA registered fish processing plant in the north and the first in the province owned by a First Nation. Hatchet Lake Development...
by MBC News | Oct 8, 2015
The City of Saskatoon has to do more than just fly the Treaty Six flag, according to the author of a report that recommends a monument be built recognizing First Nations people. Saskatoon Lawyer Jim Scott submitted his report, Redefining our heritage: A proposal for...
by MBC News | Oct 7, 2015
The Crown prosecutor is onto its last witness at a child pornography trial in Prince Albert. In October of 2014, Aider Pratchett was an officer at Fond du Lac’s RCMP detachment when the Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) unit started investigating flagged...
by MBC News | Oct 7, 2015
The case for a second bridge was a big topic at a Prince Albert infrastructure conference on Wednesday. One speaker unveiled the economics of Prince Albert’s Diefenbaker Bridge. Each time the full bridge is down, there’s a $1.8 million economic hit, and a...
by MBC News | Oct 7, 2015
Pictured: The ribbon-cutting for the first William Charles Health Centre. Photo courtesy sicc.sk.ca As Montreal Lake breaks ground on a brand new health centre, its band members want to set a trend for on-reserve healthcare. The Wednesday afternoon groundbreaking for...
by MBC News | Oct 7, 2015
About 100 people turned out Tuesday night to shout down Prime Minister Stephen Harper during a campaign stop in Saskatoon. The crowd chanted, “Stephen has to go! Hey, hey!” throughout the evening. Plainclothes RCMP officers stood between the protestors and the...
by MBC News | Oct 7, 2015
The forest fires in Northern Saskatchewan this past summer created a lot of heartache for people who lost homes and property. The La Ronge Ice Wolves weren’t spared either, the team was not able to hold numerous fundraising events due to the disaster, but now...
