by MBC News | Nov 17, 2022 | Current News
By Roman Hayter The community of Sucker River is introducing a new home surveillance rebate program. The program’s purpose is to encourage residents to purchase surveillance cameras to help combat crime in the community. The rebate will contribute to one-third of the...
by MBC News | Nov 17, 2022 | Current News
By: Marc Lalonde, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Delaying the bail hearing of a pair of Indigenous sisters wrongfully convicted of murder is yet another indication of the way Saskatchewan treats Indigenous peoples in the province, the national vice-chief of the...
by MBC News | Nov 17, 2022 | Current News
The Northern Inter Tribal Health Authority (NITHA) is providing an update on this year’s flu season. NITHA Medical Health Officer Dr. Nnamdi Ndubuka told MBC Radio News that last flu season the northern health authority did not see any confirmed cases of...
by Joel Willick | Nov 16, 2022 | Current News
The Saskatoon Tribal Council will be opening their new permanent wellness centre in Saskatoon’s Fairhaven neighborhood in the coming week to help house some of the city’s homeless population. For the past year, the tribal council has run a temporary...
by MBC News | Nov 16, 2022 | Current News
RCMP are treating the death of a man from the Montreal Lake Cree Nation as suspicious. Mounties are looking to speak with anyone who had contact with Kenneth Henderson on November 8 and 15. Henderson was located dead near Weyakwin at the boat launch yesterday. Anyone...
by MBC News | Nov 16, 2022 | Current News
Saskatchewan Polytechnic’s Prince Albert campus is recognizing Louis Riel Day. Wednesday morning the Métis flag was raised alongside the provincial and national flags. A number of students, faculty and staff came out to see the flag raised and to hear some brief...
by MBC News | Nov 16, 2022 | Current News
By Roman Hayter The Lac La Ronge Food Bank is seeing a rise in demand for food hampers. With increases on the price of food, the organization is faced with a higher potential of clients. The food bank used to send out hampers once every four weeks but now has to send...
by MBC News | Nov 16, 2022 | Current News
The Saskatchewan RCMP is investigating a homicide at Waterhen First Nation. Four people were arrested Tuesday, charged in the death of Jeremy Ernest of the Waterhen Lake First Nation. Trevor Alexander of the Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation, Hanna Durocher of Eagles...
by MBC News | Nov 15, 2022 | Current News
By Dave Baxter, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter It was an act of brutality that left a young Cree woman dead, and sparked a reckoning when it comes to how Indigenous people are treated and often mistreated by the criminal justice system. Now on the anniversary of...
by MBC News | Nov 15, 2022 | Current News
A 48-year-old woman from Saskatoon who allegedly faked the death of herself and her son while fleeing to the United States is now facing more charges. The woman and her son were the subject of a missing person’s report this past July before being found in Oregon...
