by MBC News | Feb 28, 2012
The Saskatoon Tribal Council has unveiled a new building aimed at making residents of other reserves feel a little more at home. Victoria House features eight beds that can be rented out by First Nations people who have medical appointments in Saskatoon....
by MBC News | Feb 27, 2012
A proposed potash mine on the Muskowekwan First Nation has been approved by voters. Eighty per cent of those who voted in a plebiscite on Saturday voted in favour of the proposal. If it’s developed, it would be the first potash mine on a First Nations reserve....
by MBC News | Feb 27, 2012
An autospy is scheduled to help police determine how a woman from Pinehouse died on the weekend. RCMP say the body of 49-year-old Ida Smith was found lying next to her snowmobile around 9:00 Saturday morning. She was found on the ice at the south end of Pinehouse...
by MBC News | Feb 27, 2012
A teenager is dead after an ATV rolled over on the Beardy’s Okemasis First Nation. The accident occurred Saturday morning near Highway 212. RCMP say two people were travelling west on the all-terrain vehicle when the driver lost control and it rolled into the...
by MBC News | Feb 27, 2012
A project is underway to better understand the impact environmental chemicals may be having on northerners. A prenatal monitoring program has been underway within northern Saskatchewan since August 1st. Dr. James Irvine, the north’s medical officer of...
by MBC News | Feb 24, 2012
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has filed its interim report. For the past few years, officials with the TRC have criss-crossed the country taking down statements from residential school survivors. Today in Vancouver, the commission held a press conference to...
by MBC News | Feb 24, 2012
RCMP say their explosive disposal unit was used in a drug raid in a La Ronge-area reserve earlier this week. Three sticks of “emulsion explosive” were seized from a residence that was searched by Mounties early Wednesday morning. RCMP also recovered a...
by MBC News | Feb 24, 2012
A Pelican Narrows man has been committed to stand trial on a charge of first-degree murder. Twenty-one-year-old Riley Ballantyne is accused of fatally stabbing his grandmother in the community. Her body was discovered on the morning of December 25th, 2010. A date for...
by MBC News | Feb 24, 2012
A man running for the federal NDP leadership says he would like to borrow a few themes from his home province of Quebec to improve the lives of First Nations people in the country. Thomas Mulcair is currently making the rounds through Saskatchewan as part of his...
by MBC News | Feb 23, 2012
The Saskatchewan Penitentiary is currently in lockdown. The move was made after two inmates were assaulted in the medium-security wing around 9:45 last night. Prison spokesman Darcy Begrand says the pair approached staff, who noticed they had “visible signs of...
