The Town of La Ronge is scrambling to find options for an emergency homeless shelter after a local agency said it will no longer be providing the service. In a letter to council earlier this month, the Kikinahk Friendship Centre says it will not be offering an...
UPDATE: Loretta Sakebow has been arrested by the Prince Albert Police Service. A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for a woman in connection with a Prince Albert homicide that happened March 20. Thirty-three-year-old Loretta Sakebow, who also goes by Lynda, is...
The New Democrats are urging Premier Scott Moe to institute greater localized public health measures in northern Saskatchewan to assist communities in addressing the spikes in new COVID-19 infections. The hardest hit community of Buffalo River Dene Nation, located in...
Cameco reported loses of $37 million in the second quarter, due to production decreases at its Cigar Lake facility in Northern Saskatchewan and its strategy of investing in digital and automation technologies. Non-essential personnel were temporarily evacuated from...
Prince Albert police are reaching out to the public for tips on an unsolved homicide from last year. Tuesday marks the one-year anniversary of the death of 27-year-old Dorian Michel. Police responded to a call of a serious assault in the 400 block of 18th Street West...
Black bears and the overturned garbage bins where they’ve found their meals, have been recently spotted throughout a La Ronge residential area. And conservation officers have been dealing with the unwanted visitors. Matthew Tokaruk, a black bear biologist with the...
Newly released federal government data shows violent crime continues to be a problem in Prince Albert. Out of 300 municipalities with a population over 10,000 in Canada, the city ranked fifth in terms of violent crime numbers in 2020. This is a slight decrease from...
A spokesperson for the First Nations Health Authority in British Columbia is advocating for Indigenous communities who have had to evacuate due to wildfires. Nel Wieman, the acting-deputy chief medical officer at the authority, said these evacuations can be triggering...
A Councillor with the City of Prince Albert said leadership there needs to do more to advance reconciliation in concrete ways, such as implementing more Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action. “I watched communities coming together to lower flags, cancel...
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations said the province needs to ramp up efforts to help curb the rising COVID-19 infections impacting the Buffalo River Dene Nation. The Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority which declared an outbreak there Thursday, said...
