It is a rare opportunity for fire firefighters in the File Hills area today, as they will be getting training experience through a controlled burn of a house on the Star Blanket Cree Nation. The First Nation has donated a vacant duplex to be burnt down. “There have...
The Prince Albert Grand Council is offering a workshop this week to help people dealing with the trauma of a loved one that has gone missing or been killed. James Smith Cree Nation Elder Shirley Sanderson is one of the people working in a support role at the event....
A Regina man is hoping to reignite traditional Indigenous languages in North America through an online video song challenge. Mansil Fiddler started the monthly First Nations YouTube Song Challenge in 2015 when he was learning Cree and realized it was easier to...
Reconciliation Saskatoon has launched a new website to assist people with their reconciliation journey. ConnectR provides users with a variety of calls to action for reconciliation. “There’s many people who care but don’t know where to start or do nothing for fear of...
The RCMP Underwater Recovery Team is attempting a second recovery dive to bring a small float plane to the surface that went missing in 1959 in Peter Pond Lake. The plane was located by using sonar technology last July and the first attempt to recover the plane had to...
The La Ronge area now has less K-9’s and felines as more than 130 cats and dogs were given to an Alberta animal rescue group for adoption in that province. The Saving Grace Animal Society was in La Ronge Saturday, on the invite of the tri-community area to collect 110...
The Saskatoon Tribal Council has been given approval from Saskatoon City Council to proceed with an Indigenous preschool. The STC is looking to purchase a home on 11th Street in the Montgomery Place neighbourhood and renovate it into a preschool for a maximum of 35...
It was a big weekend for La Ronge hockey player Brandt Fiske. The 17-year-old forward suited up for the La Ronge Ice Wolves Saturday in Melville when they took on the Millionaires. Fiske, who plays for the Yorkton Maulers Midget AAA team, recorded his first SJHL point...
Five people are facing charges following a report of gunshots at a home on the Keeseekoose First Nation early Saturday morning. Kamsack RCMP say they received a report of someone yelling outside the home, followed by gunshots. The suspects fled the scene, but were...
The head of a Saskatoon-based uranium mining company says although the shutdown of two mines in northern Saskatchewan last summer was certainly a difficult decision, it has proven to be the right one so far. Cameco announced last July it was indefinitely shutting down...
