by mbcnews | Jun 19, 2019 | Current News
Two Saskatchewan youth have been selected to take part in an Indigenous global development program. Twenty-one-year-old Gavin Blondeau of Saskatoon and 27-year-old Prestin Fleming of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band will be heading overseas later this summer as part of...
by mbcnews | Jun 19, 2019 | Current News, MBC News
There has recently been an increased number of bear sightings reported on the Kahkewistahaw First Nation. Chip Taypotat is responsible for animal control in the community and says he has received more than 20 calls about bear sightings in the past month. “This year...
by mbcnews | Jun 19, 2019 | Current News, Ice Wolves, MBC News
The La Ronge Ice Wolves are getting set to host a summer hockey training camp next month. The camp runs from July 22-25 at the JRMCC. Kids from the ages of 5-17 can take part. The camp will not contain an on-ice component. “We are going to work on puck-handling...
by mbcnews | Jun 19, 2019 | Current News, MBC News
Pinehouse RCMP say an inmate who escaped from the Besnard Lake Correctional Facility earlier this month is back in custody. On June 10, police reported that 30-year-old Randy Timothy Venne left the facility two days earlier. Mounties said that he was considered to be...
by mbcnews | Jun 19, 2019 | Current News, MBC News
Big River RCMP are looking to the public for information on a missing 30-year-old man. Police say Harold Rabbitskin was last seen at a home on Big River First Nation Monday evening around 11:30 p.m. Mounties say they went to several homes in the community, but they...
by mbcnews | Jun 18, 2019 | Current News
The Saskatoon Police Service is investigating after a member of the Meadow Lake RCMP detachment fired a semi-automatic rifle at a pair of suspects. The incident started around 2:45 Sunday morning when Mounties were searching for suspects believed to have been involved...
by mbcnews | Jun 18, 2019 | Current News
An RCMP officer has been arrested and charged with assault after a complaint received in the community of Wollaston Lake. Mounties say the incident happened at a home in the community on the evening of May 20th. Corporal Luay Toma was off-duty at the time. He was...
by mbcnews | Jun 17, 2019 | Current News
A former head of the Canadian Jewish Congress says the violence experienced by Indigenous women fully meets the definition of genocide as set out by the United Nations. The word has generated controversy in recent weeks after it appeared in the final report of the...
by mbcnews | Jun 17, 2019 | Current News
The chief commissioner of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls says Canadians have to come to come to terms with the reality of what has happened to Aboriginal women before we can move on meaningful change. Marion Buller says this...
by mbcnews | Jun 14, 2019 | Current News
The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) says the northwest part of the province has recently seen a growing number of HIV and syphilis cases. An HIV outbreak has been declared in North Battleford and a syphilis outbreak has been declared in the Lloydminster and...
