by MBC News | Jan 9, 2024
By: Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com Poundmaker’s Lodge Treatment Centres will be expanding its reach from northern Alberta into Saskatchewan. In December, the Saskatchewan government and Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) announced...
by MBC News | Jan 8, 2024
Prince Albert and Area Teachers’ Association president Jean-Marc Belliveau says there will be no decision on teacher sanctions until the middle of the month. The provincial government and Saskatchewan’s teachers are currently at an impasse after entering the...
by MBC News | Jan 4, 2024
A 35-year-old woman is facing charges after an incident this past Tuesday on Big Island Lake Cree Territory. Pierceland RCMP said late Tuesday night they were called to a home in the community about a serious assault. When police arrived they found an adult man who...
by MBC News | Jan 4, 2024
Authorities are investigating a death at the Pine Grove Correctional Center Wednesday. Corrections officials said a 23-year-old woman on remand was found unresponsive in a common area of the facility shortly before 1 PM. The woman was transported to Victoria Hospital,...
by MBC News | Jan 4, 2024
The first trials have been set for the accused in the death of Megan Gallagher. Gallagher, went missing in Saskatoon in 2020 and her remains were found in the south Saskatchewan River nearly two years later. Her family will now have to wait another year for the first...
by MBC News | Jan 3, 2024
Saskatchewan RCMP said homicides in the province have risen 50 percent in the past five years. Statistics released by the Mounties suggest that in 2019, homicides; including murder and manslaughter, were at 20. In 2023 there were 30 homicides. The peak came in 2022 at...
by MBC News | Jan 3, 2024
By: Sam Laskaris, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com He’s back. After recovering from off-season shoulder surgery, which forced him to miss the first couple of months of the season, Ethan Bear is back in the National Hockey League. Bear, a member of...
by MBC News | Jan 2, 2024
The Prince Albert Grand Council (PAGC) is mourning the loss of a longtime staff member. In a media release sent out New Years’ Eve the tribal council announced that Shirley Henderson, the chair of the PAGC Women’s Commission for over 25 years passed away...
by MBC News | Jan 2, 2024
Saskatchewan Polytechnic, the Prince Albert Model Forest and Filipino non-profit organization Daluhay, Daloy ng Buhay (flow of life), are embarking on a new applied research project aimed at helping Indigenous communities contribute to environmental policy and...
by MBC News | Dec 27, 2023
This year in the northwest can be described as resilient. Early in the year, hundreds of residents were forced to evacuate south to seek refuge in Regina, Saskatoon and other communities as wildfires and poor air quality from local smoke threatened people’s health. A...
