by MBC News | May 21, 2020 | Current News
The recent humidity has helped firefighters in making progress in their fight to contain the English Fire at Forte à la Corne which began May 8. Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency acting vice president of operations Steve Roberts said in a press conference today that...
by MBC News | May 21, 2020 | Current News
One Northern Chief praises the lifting of travel restrictions in the northeast and north-central as a good move. The province Tuesday announced that the public health order prohibiting travel in the entire North was amended to only areas where COVID-19 was present,...
by MBC News | May 21, 2020 | Current News
Tammy Cook-Searson is no stranger to politics or the Lac La Ronge Indian Band. Cook-Searson was first elected chief of the La Ronge band in 2005 and has been re-elected in every election since. Before that, she was a band councillor from 1997 to 2005. Cook-Searson...
by MBC News | May 21, 2020 | Current News
Battlefords RCMP have issued an arrest warrant for a 32-year-old Sweetgrass First Nation man wanted as part of a murder investigation. Michael Jordan White is charged with second-degree murder in the death of 38-year-old Todd Levi Stone. Police say Stone was found...
by MBC News | May 20, 2020 | Current News
The English Wildfire in Fort-a-la-Corne has grown in size by 10 per cent since Tuesday. The uncontained fire now sits at 40,000 hectares. Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency acting vice president of operations Steve Roberts said in a press conference Wednesday morning...
by MBC News | May 20, 2020 | Current News
Prince Albert will continue to shut off the water of some residents during the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, the city is not shutting off water of residents who are in arrears during the pandemic. However, for those residents who have failed to switch over to the new...
by MBC News | May 20, 2020 | Current News, Ice Wolves, MBC News, Sports
The SJHL Bantam Draft is fast approaching. The sixth instalment of the league’s draft will take place on Jun. 5, 2020 at 1 p.m. “I think the biggest thing about our draft is we have six rounds, so there will be a total of 72 players drafted,” said SJHL President...
by MBC News | May 20, 2020 | Current News
A new youth group home has opened on the Ochapowace First Nation. In a statement released Tuesday, the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) voiced their support for the new home. In the release, FSIN Vice-Chief David Pratt said this is the right move....
by MBC News | May 20, 2020 | Current News
Village of Air Ronge Mayor Gordon Stomp and Town of La Ronge Mayor Ron Woytowich said their communities were not consulted on the Saskatchewan government’s decision to lift non-essential travel restrictions into the north-central and northeastern regions of the...
by MBC News | May 19, 2020 | Current News
The public health order prohibiting non-essential travel to the entire Northern Administrative District is being amended to only the northwest, where the transmission of COVID-19 is present. “Travel to and from all other areas of the north – commercial, domestic and...
