by MBC News | Apr 18, 2018
Shellbrook RCMP are looking to the public for information on a missing man. Police say 32-year-old Elvis Gilbert Bird from Big River First Nation was last seen in the village area of Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation last Friday around 1:00 p.m. Bird is an Indigenous male,...
by MBC News | Apr 18, 2018
The Take Home Naloxone program is expanding to provide residents who may witness an overdose with the free — potentially life-saving antidote. Naloxone, if administered properly, can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. The most common opioid killing...
by MBC News | Apr 18, 2018
Can La Loche defend its dubious title of having Saskatchewan’s worst road? The Canadian Automobile Association is conducting its annual online survey until May 6, asking the public to nominate what they consider to be a bad road. Last year, Highway 155 took the title,...
by MBC News | Apr 18, 2018
Hundreds of volunteers will be working throughout the province’s three biggest cities today counting the number of people experiencing homelessness. The Point-in-Time Homelessness Count is one-day data collection conducted every few years to provide a snapshot...
by MBC News | Apr 17, 2018
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations says the Saskatchewan government has a duty to consult First Nations, in drafting legislation which would limit the export of oil and gas products to British Columbia. Premier Scott Moe says legislation restricting export...
by MBC News | Apr 17, 2018
Elderly northern fur trappers will not be seeing free licenses from the Saskatchewan government, despite advocating for this through a legislative petition. Cumberland MLA Doyle Vermette tabled a petition Monday, requesting the government provide a trapping license...
by MBC News | Apr 17, 2018
Two Saskatchewan professors have joined an international network of scholars in hopes to bring Indigenous knowledge into discussions of biodiversity and sustainability. Maureen Reed and James Robson are professors from the School of Environment and Sustainability at...
by MBC News | Apr 17, 2018
The federal Liberals recreational marijuana legislation was under the microscope Tuesday, as senators of the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Peoples are examining Bill C-45 and how its impacts would affect First Nations communities. The government is looking to...
by MBC News | Apr 16, 2018
It appears the legal saga of Gerald Stanley may be over. Stanley pleaded guilty to improperly storing firearms at a North Battleford courtroom Monday afternoon. The Biggar area farmer now faces a $3,000 fine and a 10-year weapons ban. Stanley must also forfeit any...
by MBC News | Apr 16, 2018
Northern Saskatchewan MP Georgina Jolibois is demanding the federal government and the inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls follow through on promised community hearings. Jolibois says her office was working with the inquiry on helping to set...
