by MBC News | Sep 20, 2023
RCMP are reporting there is an increased police presence on Big River First Nation. Police said they are investigating several firearms related incidents. RCMP said on Sept. 18 they were called about someone being injured on the First Nation after a confrontation. The...
by Joel Willick | Sep 19, 2023
The Saskatchewan First Nation Water Association has been holding their first ever conference and AGM in Saskatoon this week. Leonard Lewko, with the organizations board of directors, spoke with MBC Radio News about the conference, the organization’s goals, and...
by MBC News | Sep 19, 2023
Des Nedhe Developments, the economic arm of English River First Nation, has announced their plans to further enhance their water treatment facilities in the RM of Corman Park near Saskatoon. The company hopes the new facilities will provide critical infrastructure for...
by MBC News | Sep 19, 2023
By Dan Jones. WARNING: Disturbing content Advocates and researchers are imploring Parliamentarians to increase public access to Indian Residential School records, as First Nations and Indigenous groups seek to identify children or remains discovered in unmarked graves...
by Joel Willick | Sep 17, 2023
A Pre-trial hearing for one of the several people accused in the murder of Megan Gallagher is set to begin on Monday. Gallagher, a Metis woman from Saskatoon, went missing in 2020 – her body would be pulled from the South Saskatchewan River in the fall of 2022. Since...
by bryanorthner | Sep 15, 2023
Northlands College is reporting increased enrollment. The college said the number of students taking classes at their campuses across northern Saskatchewan is up by 19 per cent. The increase marks a turnaround for the community college which had previously seen...
by MBC News | Sep 15, 2023
One person is dead and another is charged following what RCMP describe as an altercation on the Buffalo River Dene Nation. Mounties responded to a home on the First Nation early Wednesday morning of a report of an injured man. George Bekkattla would die at the scene...
by bryanorthner | Sep 15, 2023
WARNING: Disturbing content The artist who created the Indian Residential School Memorial Monument is talking about it. Stanley Hunt, a master carver from British Columbia, crafted the wood memorial, which is similar to a totem pole, to remember the children who did...
by MBC News | Sep 14, 2023
Allan Polchies, the chief of Sitansisk (St. Mary’s First Nation), says the Higgs government is hurting trans youth with its new school gender policy. Savannah Awde/ Brunswick News The Assembly of First Nations is condemning the school gender identity...
by MBC News | Sep 13, 2023
Business and community leaders are gathered in Beauval to talk about tourism in the northwest. The Fourth Annual West Side Tourism Symposium got underway Tuesday and is set to wrap up Thursday afternoon. The symposium has brought representatives from communities...
