by MBC News | Sep 9, 2015
First Nations Chiefs in Ontario are launching an online fundraising campaign to pay for their own public inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women. Ontario regional Chief Isadore Day says he doesn’t want to wait any longer for the federal government to...
by MBC News | Sep 9, 2015
The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) says he’s listened to his elders and will be voting on Oct. 19 after all. Just a week ago, the AFN issued a statement encouraging First Nations people to vote in the federal election. However, Chief Perry...
by MBC News | Sep 9, 2015
A 31-year-old man is dead after he was hurt while doing maintenance work at the lumber mill south of Big River on Tuesday. Big River RCMP and paramedics were called to the Carrier Wood Products worksite before 9 p.m., but the man had already succumbed to his injuries...
by MBC News | Sep 9, 2015
It was STARS air ambulance to the rescue when an elderly hunter went missing on the Sweetgrass First Nation west of North Battleford. The family of the 89-year-old man called RCMP around 9 p.m. on Tuesday when he didn’t return after a day of hunting. He had last been...
by MBC News | Sep 8, 2015
The power of the First Nations vote has caused a lot of buzz leading up to the federal election, and that excitement is fueling a group of First Nation University (FNUniv) students. The group ‘Voice to Vote’ formed as a sociology class project this spring....
by MBC News | Sep 8, 2015
A Pelican Narrows fisherman pulled in two big ones, defying the odds, in an impressive fishing feat on the weekend. Ronald Highway won the Senator Pierre Settee Memorial Heaviest Walleye Derby, in Cumberland House, over the weekend catching the same size fish on both...
by MBC News | Sep 8, 2015
The RCMP is looking for information after two men in a half-ton truck pulled over and offered candy and a ride to girls on the Little Red River reserve on Saturday. At about 10 p.m., the two 12-year-old girls refused the offer, and the driver got out and tried to grab...
by MBC News | Sep 8, 2015
Saskatoon police made a fatal discovery on Monday evening when they were called to the city’s west side. Around 7 p.m. they found the deceased body of a 16-year-old boy in an area where a shooting took place, in the 300-block of Avenue Q South. The victim’s...
by MBC News | Sep 8, 2015
There are some anxious family members of the Kahkewistahaw First Nation near Broadview, after a 15-year-old girl went missing. Last Wednesday, Shayna Bigstone left a note for her father saying she was going to Regina. The family has not heard from her since....
by MBC News | Sep 4, 2015
An inmate has died after staff found him unresponsive at the Saskatchewan Penitentiary, located just outside Prince Albert. Staff performed CPR on Arthur William Michel when they went to his cell in the minimum security unit on Wednesday night, a release from...
