A hands-on project lead by YC Homes gave eight Senator Allen Bird Memorial School students the opportunity to build a greenhouse. The Grade 12 students from Montreal Lake Cree Nation just completed the project and built it from the ground up under supervision from YC...
Education and Enviromental awards go to Lac La Ronge Indian Band Women at ‘Strength of Our Women’ Gala Two women are honourees from Friday night’s ‘Strength of Our Women Awards’. The event honours First Nation women in Saskachewan who show strength and...
The File Hills Qu’Appelle Tribal Council says it stands in support of the Muscowpetung First Nation in exercising and asserting sovereignty over lands and governance. The First Nation recently passed a Cannabis Act, which defined regulations, laws and governed...
The Sask. Party government is defending its decision to cut about $50,000 in funding per year to the province’s commercial fisheries cooperative. Environment Minister Dustin Duncan says commercial fishing cooperatives in the province wanted access to a free market so...
Documents from an Access to Information Request from the New Democrats indicate the apprehension of new-born babies, fewer than 30 days old is on the rise. The document provided to the media suggests that in 2013, 104 children were put in care. In 2017, that number...
The Saskatchewan government has changed the name of Killsquaw Lake to one that honours Indigenous women. The small group of lakes near Unity will now be called Kikiskitotawânawak Iskêwak Lakes which means “we honour the women” in Cree. Elders in the area chose the new...
Northern RCMP officers issued 152 tickets last week for various infractions during a traffic blitz. Officers focused on distracted, impaired and aggressive driving and whether people were wearing seatbelts in and around the communities of Beauval, Buffalo Narrows, Ile...
It’s a big week for the La Ronge Ice Wolves on and off the ice. When the Ice Wolves take on the Notre Dame Hounds Thursday at home and the Melville Millionaires Friday at the Mel Hegland Uniplex, La Ronge will wear special pink jerseys. The jerseys will be auctioned...
The president of Saskatchewan’s commercial fisheries cooperative says provincial funding cuts are seriously affecting the organization. The Saskatchewan Cooperative Fisheries Limited held its annual general meeting in Prince Albert Monday. President Marie Hildebrandt...
