by MBC News | May 20, 2020
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
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
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...
by MBC News | May 19, 2020
A long-time hockey official in northern Saskatchewan has been honoured. La Ronge’s Bruce Skilliter has earned the Saskatchewan Hockey Association’s Most Deserving Official award for Zone 8. “It’s just pretty nice to be recognized after all of those years of...
by MBC News | May 19, 2020
The Whitecap Dakota First Nation volunteer fire department was on the scene of a residential fire Monday evening. A neighbour had already alerted residents and helped them evacuate by the time the firefighters arrived. The Saskatoon Fire Department also provided some...
by MBC News | May 19, 2020
RCMP have laid murder charges in the October 2019 death of a Battlefords man. Twenty-seven-year-old Ryan Gatzke died as a result of injuries sustained at a residence in the 100 block of 26th Street West in the Battlefords. Twenty-five-year-old Jacob Joseph Ballantyne...
by MBC News | May 19, 2020
RCMP say they are investigating the death of a North Battleford man as a homicide. Twenty-year-old Damian Moosomin had been missing since late April. Officers say his body was discovered in a backyard in the 1500 block of 105th Street of the city on Saturday. An...
by MBC News | May 19, 2020
A former chief of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band is looking to regain the role in this year’s election. Tom J. McKenzie is one of six candidates campaigning to be the band’s next leader. He served as chief of the First Nation from 1983-1985. McKenzie said his main goal...
by MBC News | May 16, 2020
The Saskatchewan Health Authority has declared the COVID-19 outbreak at the La Loche longterm care facility as over. In a press release, SHA medical health officer Dr. Rim Zayed says a 28-day period has passed without a new positive case of coronavirus at the...
by MBC News | May 15, 2020
Prince Albert police say a five-year-old girl who was one of the victims in a brutal attack that left three others dead in late March, continues to recover in a Saskatoon hospital. The girl’s seven-year-old brother Bentlee and grandparents Denis Carrier and Sandra...