by MBC News | Jul 27, 2020
La Loche RCMP say a number of housing units, currently under construction, were seriously vandalized on Saturday. Mounties say sometime during the evening hours windows were broken and drywall and toilets smashed in a number of the units located on Marie Street....
by MBC News | Jul 24, 2020
The Scattered Site Outreach Program in La Ronge has reopened after closing in early July. At the time of closing, Ron Woytowich, executive director of the Kikinahk Friendship Centre which oversees the outreach program, cited lack of funding among other reasons as to...
by MBC News | Jul 24, 2020
The Métis Nation-Saskatchewan has launched a new program to help cancer patients with travel costs for treatment. The organization says the Cancer Transportation Pilot Program is based on feedback received at its health and well-being engagement sessions. In a press...
by MBC News | Jul 23, 2020
Back to Batoche Days got underway Thursday but in a virtual way. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, there will be no festival this year at the national historic site. However, Minister of Batoche Sherry McLennan said people are still competing in traditional Métis...
by MBC News | Jul 23, 2020
In the third round and with the 34th overall pick in the 2020 SJHL Bantam Draft, the La Ronge Ice Wolves selected forward Zane Normand from Saskatoon. “I think I’m a smaller player who likes to play the body,” said Normand. “I like being a grinder, somebody who isn’t...
by MBC News | Jul 23, 2020
Two University of Saskatchewan researchers are examining the impacts of oilsands development on First Nations communities in Northern Alberta. Clinton Westman is the head of the department of anthropology and archeology at the university. He is working with Glenn...
by MBC News | Jul 22, 2020
Six years after they opened a fraud investigation, the RCMP has charged a former employee of the Clearwater River Dene Nation with stealing more than $1 million from the First Nation. Sixty-one-year-old Johnny Cheecham is facing a charge of fraud over $5,000. The...
by MBC News | Jul 22, 2020
The province has turned to northern and First Nations leaders for support to apply pressure on the federal government to commit funds to the reclamation of the Gunnar Mine. Energy and Resources Minister Bronwyn Eyre has written to Fond du Lac Denesuline First Nation...
by MBC News | Jul 22, 2020
A La Ronge wild rice company is expecting a smaller than usual harvest this year. Katy Muirhead, one of the owners of Against the Grain, said high-water levels this summer are contributing to a decreased crop. She said they usually don’t start harvesting until the end...
by MBC News | Jul 22, 2020
A University of Saskatchewan researcher plans to work with the Clearwater River Dene Nation and La Loche as part of a study of the Denesuline language. Olga Lovick is a linguistics professor at the U of S. She will be working with the two communities with the goal of...
