by MBC News | Mar 31, 2020
The Métis Nation-Saskatchewan has announced close to $3 million in funding as part of its emergency COVID-19 pandemic plan. In a press release, the MN-S says the funding will go toward childcare supports, personal protective equipment and assisting Métis households...
by MBC News | Mar 31, 2020
Saskatchewan RCMP says one of their officers has been in self-isolation after learning they may have been exposed to COVID-19 last Wednesday. Police say they followed Saskatchewan Health Authority protocol after receiving information about the officer’s...
by MBC News | Mar 31, 2020
Testing for COVID-19 continues to increase in the Far North. Stats released Monday indicate 163 people have been tested, up from 103 late last week. Only three people have confirmed positive in the region which includes Southend. 36 communities have testing centres...
by MBC News | Mar 30, 2020
Two Saskatchewan residents have died in hospital as a result of complications related to COVID-19. Both individuals were in their 70s and died on Sunday in separate parts of the province. The Saskatchewan government did not mention exactly where the patients were...
by MBC News | Mar 30, 2020
A seven-year-old boy is dead and five-year-old girl in critical condition in what Prince Albert police say was a triple homicide in the city Sunday afternoon. The other two victims were a woman and man, both 56. Police say they were called to a residence in the...
by MBC News | Mar 30, 2020
Saskatchewan added another 52 cases of coronavirus over the weekend bringing the total number in the province to 156. The province is now reporting a total of three people who attended a recent snowmobile rally supper in Christopher Lake have tested positive for...
by MBC News | Mar 30, 2020
RCMP have charged 11 people under the first violation of the COVID-19 public health act after a vehicle chase in the Meadow Lake area early Friday morning. Police began pursuing a stolen SUV around 1:30 a.m. in Loon Lake. Mounties were unable to stop the vehicle as it...
by MBC News | Mar 27, 2020
It was back to work Friday for Chief Tammy Cook-Searson and the rest of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band council. The band’s upcoming election has been postponed and chief and council’s term extended on an emergency basis to Apr. 30. Cook-Searson said now the election has...
by MBC News | Mar 26, 2020
The current chief and council of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band will remain in office a little longer than was initially expected. The First Nation was in the middle of an election campaign this month when the province was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic about two...
by MBC News | Mar 26, 2020
A Blackfoot Cree singer-songwriter based in Saskatoon says the COVID-19 outbreak changed the music industry overnight. The North Sound’s Forrest Eaglespeaker is playing livestream concerts to make up for his cancelled shows due to the pandemic. “We just want to stay...
