by MBC News | Jun 22, 2021
A Black Lake woman is facing a bootlegging charge, after being stopped by RCMP near Southend early Saturday morning. Mounties claim that officers seized 31 750-millilitre bottles of whiskey, two 1.71-litre bottles of whiskey, three 1-litre and 12 single-serving...
by MBC News | Jun 22, 2021
By: Nick Pearce, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter StarPhoenix Ronalda Vandale shaved her braids just as they grew back. The Muskoday First Nation woman first cut them when her mother, a residential school survivor, died 10 years ago. The second time was for her...
by MBC News | Jun 22, 2021
By: Jessica R. Durling, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Humboldt Journal The Horizon School Division raised flags alongside partner First Nations and community organizers to mark National Indigenous Peoples Day. Kevin Garinger, Horizon’s director of education,...
by MBC News | Jun 22, 2021
By: Jessica Durling, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Humboldt Journal Looking back, Albert McCallum compares the eight years he spent at the Île-à-la-Crosse Indian Residential School with his six siblings to prison. The residential school system was designed...
by MBC News | Jun 22, 2021
(By Nick Pearce, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Star Phoenix) A Saskatchewan First Nation is nurturing new farming operations more than a century after they were stifled. An injection of $954,000 in federal cash is making up for lost time, Cowessess First...
by MBC News | Jun 22, 2021
(By Marjorie D.L. Roden, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com) Like many, Patricia Ballantyne, a member of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation, Sask., had a strong reaction to the discovery of the remains of hundreds of children in an unmarked grave at...
by MBC News | Jun 22, 2021
A Southend man will appear in court today, charged with weapons and drug offenses. RCMP allege that at approximately 10 PM last Friday Tarrant Nordin discharged a firearm inside a home on Olsen Street. The bullet hit the exterior wall of the home. No one was injured....
by MBC News | Jun 21, 2021
A woman and two men from Regina have been charged with second-degree murder in connection with a homicide that happened in the city on the weekend. Early Friday morning, Regina Police were called to hospital for a report of an injured man who later died. The victim...
by MBC News | Jun 21, 2021
The communities of La Ronge, Air Ronge and the Lac La Ronge Indian Band are celebrating National Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The day has been celebrated on June 21 since 1996. The event started with a pipe ceremony Monday morning and was then followed by a smudge walk...
by MBC News | Jun 18, 2021
Fort Qu’Appelle RCMP have issued an arrest warrant for a 27-year-old man in relation to an armed robbery on the Muscowpetung First Nation in 2019. Police say the incident happened at a local business in the community in March of that year. Jarret Poitras is charged...
