by MBC News | Jun 15, 2017
Photo courtesy of AG Canada Nearly 800,000 acres of government-owned pastureland will be available for long-term leases rather than be sold to private users. That decision was announced today, following weeks of public input earlier this spring. There will also be...
by MBC News | Jun 15, 2017
Pelican Narrows. Photo courtesy of peterballantyne.ca A 20-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder after a death last weekend in Pelican Narrows. RCMP say Curtis Michel from Pelican Narrows was arrested on Monday. Police were called to a home in the...
by MBC News | Jun 14, 2017
Anthony “John” Custer and his mother Noreen. Photo submitted by Noreen Custer. A mother who lost her first-born son in a Pelican Narrows beating is reacting to the sentence for his killer, saying “I am glad that at least my son got justice.” In...
by MBC News | Jun 14, 2017
Crown prosecutor Lloyd Stang leaves court on June 13, 2017. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski. Concerns about the La Loche school shooter’s motive, sense of remorse and empathy, and continued fascination with guns have arisen at his sentencing hearing this week. This comes...
by MBC News | Jun 14, 2017
George Gordon First Nation. Photo courtesy of Manfred Joehnck. The band council of the George Gordon First Nation, northeast of Regina, is taking the next step to hold a by-election for chief and one vacant councillor position. It has passed a motion to begin the...
by MBC News | Jun 14, 2017
Photo courtesy of CRTC The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has granted five new radio licences to serve Indigenous people in urban areas. The new stations will be located in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Ottawa and Toronto. Northern...
by MBC News | Jun 14, 2017
Dr. Janet Tootoosis. Photo courtesy of YouTube. Two Aboriginal women are among the ten members of a new board of directors that will oversee the operation of the province’s single health authority. Dr. Janet Tootoosis is from the Poundmaker First Nation. She is a...
by MBC News | Jun 14, 2017
The hearing is taking place at Meadow Lake Provincial Court. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski. A child psychiatrist testified on Tuesday about his meetings with the La Loche teen who killed four people in January of 2016. The teen surrendered at the Dene Building high...
by MBC News | Jun 14, 2017
Jaydus Shingoose. Photo courtesy of RCMP. Fort Qu’Appelle RCMP are concerned for the safety of a missing 17-year-old girl. Jaydus Shingoose was reported missing on Monday. She was last seen at the Standing Buffalo Crossing Gas Station on Sunday morning. Jaydus...
by MBC News | Jun 13, 2017
Photo courtesy of Flickr.com Conservation officers have a simple message to residents who want to rescue what they think are orphaned young animals this time of the year — don’t touch them. Ministry of Environment officials say in a majority of cases, young...
