by MBC News | Jun 30, 2020
Northlands College in Air Ronge held its powerline technician program graduation on Tuesday. A total of 12 students are in this spring’s graduating class. This is the first year all entrants graduated the course. Bruce Skilliter is the head instructor for the program....
by MBC News | Jun 30, 2020
Prince Albert city council has no intention of backing off on a controversial back alley curfew bylaw, despite protests from one of the province’s largest tribal councils. The Prince Albert Grand Council says the new bylaw will increase police racial profiling of...
by MBC News | Jun 30, 2020
As the province looks to revamp how police oversight is conducted, Sask. Justice Minister Don Morgan said it would be “ideal” to appoint an Indigenous person as Chair of the Public Complaints Commission. The current Chair Brent Cotter has been appointed to the Senate...
by MBC News | Jun 30, 2020
The La Ronge Ice Wolves continue to carry on during the COVID-19 pandemic. The team recently announced that season tickets are now on sale for the 2020-21 campaign. “We waited until we had some idea that things were gonna go ahead,” said Randy Johns, who is a board...
by MBC News | Jun 30, 2020
The Prince Albert Grand Council and city police are set to meet Tuesday afternoon after a video surfaced on social media of an officer using, what the tribal council says, was excessive force while taking a suspect into custody. The video, posted on the Facebook page...
by MBC News | Jun 30, 2020
Concern is growing as water is rising on Highway 165 one kilometre east of Beauval. The Beaver River has surpassed its flood lines and submerged a portion of the highway. Swelling from the La Plonge Creek is also contributing. The treat of a washout or the closure of...
by MBC News | Jun 29, 2020
It was a sixth place-finish for Sucker River golfer Dade Bernatchez over the weekend in Swift Current at the Elmwood Golf Club. The 13-year-old shot an 82 on the first day and followed that up by a 91 on the second day for a two-day total of 173. Darien Herlick of...
by MBC News | Jun 29, 2020
UPDATED – JULY 13, 2020 Turtleford RCMP have reported missing 32-year-old woman DeeDee Steele from Thunderchild First Nation has been located deceased. Steele had been missing since June 26 when she was last seen on Thunderchild First Nation. According to a...
by MBC News | Jun 26, 2020
UPDATED: AUGUST 6, 2020 Yesterday afternoon, at approximately 3 p.m., members from the Hutterian Emergency Aquatic Response Team (HEART) recovered the body of six-year-old Lian Thunderchild who disappeared in Makwa Lake on June 23, 2020. The body was located over a...
by MBC News | Jun 26, 2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic shut down classes for University of Saskatchewan Bachelor Education student Tanzy Janvier, she began to receive messages from family and friends from her home community of La Loche on the difficulties of accessing food, cleaning supplies and...
