by MBC News | Aug 28, 2020 | Current News
A Lac La Ronge Indian Band councillor has been given a 45-day stop-work order from the province to cease building a culture camp in Grandmother’s Bay. An employee from the Ministry of Parks, Sport and Culture delivered the order to Gerald McKenzie on Tuesday at the...
by MBC News | Aug 28, 2020 | Current News
Police have arrested another person in the Tiki Laverdiere murder case. Laverdiere’s remains were found in the North Battleford area in July 2019. On Wednesday, Edmonton police arrested 36-year-old Samuel Takakenew who was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant. He is...
by MBC News | Aug 28, 2020 | Current News
For the second weekend in a row, RCMP say they prevented a significant amount of contraband alcohol from coming into the Wollaston Lake area. From Aug. 22-23, police say they seized more than 100 bottles of illegal alcohol. This included hard liquor, wine, beer and...
by MBC News | Aug 27, 2020 | Current News
A proposal to move La Ronge’s homeless shelter to a new location was rejected by town council Wednesday night. The Kikinahk Friendship Centre, which oversees the Scattered Site Outreach Program, presented an application with the hopes of moving from the current rental...
by MBC News | Aug 27, 2020 | Current News
The Lac La Ronge Indian Band is calling out the RCMP after video emerged on social media earlier this week of an officer punching a window and yelling expletives while trying to gain access to a residence in Stanley Mission. The video is posted on the Facebook page of...
by MBC News | Aug 26, 2020 | Current News
An Appeals Court has found the Onion Lake Cree Nation was not in contempt of an order to release its financials records publicly. In June 2017, the First Nation was compelled to show its financials after band member Charlene Stick requested them through the First...
by MBC News | Aug 26, 2020 | Current News, MBC News, Sports
Canoe enthusiasts will be out in full force this weekend in northern Saskatchewan. The 26th edition of the Eagle Point Classic kicks off Saturday in La Ronge at the Eagle Point Marina. “We were thinking about cancelling because of COVID, but we looked at all the rules...
by MBC News | Aug 26, 2020 | Current News
Northern Saskatchewan provincial parks are part of an almost $7 million government investment in facility upgrades slated to take place over the next year. As part of the improvements, the Meadow Lake Provincial Park will see water systems and boat launch upgrades....
by MBC News | Aug 26, 2020 | Current News
UPDATE – RCMP say Garren Baptiste has been located and is safe....
by MBC News | Aug 25, 2020 | Current News
A PhD student at the University of Saskatchewan is close to finishing research on the woodland caribou in northern Saskatchewan. Max Pospisil has been conducting the research for the past two years, spending last summer in La Ronge and area interviewing local...
