by MBC News | Aug 21, 2018
Saskatchewan firefighters are doing their part in battling blazes all over B.C. this summer. A group of 31 firefighters returned to the province Tuesday afternoon after spending the last two weeks on the B.C. front lines. Lee-Ann McTaggart, who works out of the Prince...
by MBC News | Aug 21, 2018
UPDATE: The trustees of the Treaty 8 Agriculture Benefit Settlement for the Fond-du-Lac First Nation are clarifying that they are proceeding with per capita payouts to their members and will seek to obtain proper insurance to ensure these payments are made. An August...
by MBC News | Aug 21, 2018
The Lac La Ronge Indian Band is going to four communities this week, consulting on the Lac La Ronge Provincial Park Draft Management Plan. The meetings starting Thursday in Stanley Mission, La Ronge, Grandmother’s Bay and Sucker River are for communities, which will...
by MBC News | Aug 20, 2018
Northern Saskatchewan’s seasonal workers are not included in a national pilot program to extend unemployment insurance. Thirteen regions, mainly in eastern Canada, will see benefits lengthened five weeks. New North CEO Matt Healy says the additional coverage would...
by MBC News | Aug 20, 2018
Claims are now being accepted from people who qualify for the Sixties Scoop settlement recently approved by the federal government. The settlement covers status Indians and Inuit people taken from their families during a 40-year period from 1951 to 1991. The...
by MBC News | Aug 17, 2018
In spite of losing one of its members to suicide a week before competition, the Fond du Lac Fire Department pulled together, prevailed and won a national competition last weekend. The six-member team placed first at the 2018 Aboriginal Firefighters Association of...
by MBC News | Aug 17, 2018
The RCMP has decided to attempt a dive to reach a plane which went down in Peter Pond Lake in 1959. The wreckage was discovered on July 31 using sonar but the Mounties originally said a dive in the deep water would be too risky. Corporal Rob King says the RCMP would...
by MBC News | Aug 17, 2018
The Muskowekan First Nation and Encanto Potash say they have hired a consulting, design and construction services company to prepare two environmental studies as part of a new potash mine in the province. Golder Associates will conduct a water study to determine the...
by MBC News | Aug 16, 2018
A La Loche man is facing a number of drug-related charges after a traffic stop in the early morning hours on Wednesday. The traffic stop happened around 1:30 a.m. and police seized a quantity of drugs, drug paraphernalia and cash. Forty-one-year-old Burton Lori Herman...
by MBC News | Aug 16, 2018
First Nations youth are learning about culture and tradition at a gathering put on by the Prince Albert Grand Council this week. The gathering is based on recommendation 66 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that says youth should be part of the reconciliation...
