by MBC News | Sep 1, 2015
The school bells are ringing again for kids across the province, and aboriginal families in a Prince Albert-area school division are a big part of a plan to help students succeed this school year. Saskatchewan Rivers School Division (SRSD) has been monitoring the...
by MBC News | Aug 31, 2015
Three bears had to be destroyed in La Ronge late last week after several brushes with humans. Saskatchewan Environment’s Daryl Minter says a sow and her two cubs were spotted repeatedly near the town’s fire hall and high school. Minter says it became clear...
by MBC News | Aug 31, 2015
If elected to government, NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair says his party would take several steps to end violence against women. One of these steps would be to launch a national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women within 100 days of forming government....
by MBC News | Aug 31, 2015
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation says the chief of Cote First Nation has some explaining to do. It costs more than $1 million to run the band council for the First Nation – which is located northeast of Regina – and the chief was paid nearly $200,000 in salary and...
by MBC News | Aug 31, 2015
A photojournalist who’s documented human rights violations in Africa says nothing has hit her as hard as the legacy of Canada’s residential schools. Last week, London and New York-based photojournalist Daniella Zalcman partnered with New Yorker magazine to unveil a...
by MBC News | Aug 28, 2015
Premier Brad Wall says he believes this summer’s wildfires will be an election issue in the Cumberland riding come next April. Wall was in La Ronge Thursday night to promote local Saskatchewan Party candidate and La Ronge mayor Thomas Sierzycki. The premier...
by MBC News | Aug 28, 2015
This week, a man was found dead in a Kamsack-area field inside a car that had been previously reported stolen. A farmer called the RCMP after the discovery on Monday. The RCMP determined the car had been there for 10 days. It seems the driver had been trying to cross...
by MBC News | Aug 28, 2015
The summer fire season isn’t quite over, but firefighting officials say activities in northern Saskatchewan are returning to normal. At one point in July, dozens of fire departments from across the province responded to the request for help in fighting fires...
by MBC News | Aug 27, 2015
On Thursday, the Saskatoon Tribal Council and PotashCorp helped hundreds of kids in Saskatoon get ready to go back to school next week. The tribal council and the mining company handed out 500 backpacks filled with school supplies to inner city children at the White...
by MBC News | Aug 27, 2015
A man from a Battlefords-area hamlet now faces charges after shots were fired in Onion Lake this week. Todd William Rousseau, 44, was arrested after the RCMP responded to a call about a man with a gun on the First Nation. The RCMP reports he’s from Delmas. His charges...
