After months of speculation, Bobby Cameron made it official announcing he is running for Chief of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations. Yesterday, during the FSIN Executive Council/Indian Government Commission meeting the FSIN Second-Vice Chief announced to...
La Ronge’s mayor hoped a Canada Day Do-Over celebration Friday night in the community would bring some closure to people still haunted by this summer’s wildfires. The event included the parade and fireworks that had to be postponed while La Ronge was...
On Wednesday, Regina police officers were on patrol when they came across a dangerous situation. The officers noted a disturbance and, according to a Regina Police news release, approached a vehicle where a man then reached for something underneath a seat. The release...
Aboriginals represent about eight per cent of Saskatchewan’s total workforce, yet they represent 22 per cent of the total unemployed. The numbers are contained in the August employment figures released Friday by Statistics Canada Overall, the numbers show the province...
Concerns about a one-sided retelling of history are coming out now that the University of Manitoba is on the cusp of rolling out documents that up until a month ago were in the hands of the church and Aboriginal Affairs. The National Centre for Truth and...
Things might be moving forward at the Metis Nation – Saskatchewan. A court ruled this week that president Robert Doucette failed to prove members of the Provincial Metis Council ignored a court order to have an assembly. Doucette sent a request to the council...
Conservation officers are still hoping to relocate a bear that has been living inside La Ronge lately. Last week, a mother bear and her two cubs were destroyed in the northern town after losing their fear of humans. A fourth bear, estimated to be about two years old,...
A charge of first-degree murder has been laid following a fatal shooting on the Ahtahkakoop First Nation early yesterday. Twenty-one-year-old Ahtahkakoop resident Tyrone Jacob Knife was found unresponsive with an apparent gunshot wound on a trail leading to several...
Grave site for Hilliard Sewap, Jr. Photo courtesy Facebook A pretrial is in the books for men accused of killing a Pelican Narrows teen. On May 2, Hilliard Sewap, Jr., 17, was found in medical distress in a home in the community. He was pronounced dead at the local...
The province, already hammered by low oil prices, could be in for another major economic blow according to the Canada West Foundation. The economic think-tank says billions of dollars will be at stake when the Canada-U.S. softwood lumber agreement expires in a few...
