The City of Saskatoon is working to break the cycle of Indigenous youth incarceration with ConnectYXE. ConnectYXE is the city’s final proposal for the federal government’s Smart Cities Challenge which is a competition encouraging community improvement. “ConnectYXE...
The 19th annual Aboriginal Provincial Broomball Championships come to La Ronge this weekend. Leonard Isbister is with the event and says they have five teams registered to take part in the action. “We have two teams from Hall Lake, we have the Hall Lake Hitmen, we...
A conference which focuses on maintaining traditional Indigenous educational teachings is taking place in North Battleford this week. The two-day Kiskihsomitotan conference wraps up Tuesday. Sylvia Weenie, who is the treaty language culture coordinator for the Treaty...
The NDP says there is a time gap of when Finance Minister Donna Harpauer became aware that the village of Pinehouse paid for two trips there and when she actually reimbursed Pinehouse. Harpauer claims she was informed of the situation when MBC News broke the story in...
Georgina Jolibois says she will seek the NDP nomination for the federal constituency of Desnethé-Missinippi-Churchill River for the fall election. The one-term MP says she has accomplished much over the past four years for her riding, but admits there is still work to...
RCMP say nine different people face a total of 57 charges after a series of drug busts over the past few months. Police say the arrests were made after three search warrants were executed on local residences on Jan. 30, Feb. 13 and Feb. 28. The group of men and women...
Two teenage males have been charged with attempted murder after a shooting incident in the early morning hours of Saturday. Police were called to the vicinity of 8th Avenue and Montague Street around 2 a.m. where they found a 23-year-old male who had been shot. The...
Monica Goulet is going to dance the night away at a party she has planned for this upcoming autumn. The party is to celebrate a new kidney. After a long battle with kidney disease, she has found a perfect match donor in her nephew, Jim Searson. The surgery is...
The La Ronge Ice Wolves put a bow on their season when they hosted their year-end awards banquet at Eagle Point Resort Friday night. La Ronge forward Zach Bannister and defenceman Antonio Di Paolo were the big winners. Bannister was named most valuable player and top...
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations is calling on the Saskatchewan government to implement the Trudeau government’s Bill C-92 on child welfare legislation. The legislation was introduced in the House of Commons last week and aims to give Indigenous...
