Tri-community residents nervous to get the COVID-19 vaccine will be able to have a furry friend calm their anxieties at the La Ronge Hospital COVID-19 clinic this week. Torino, a non-shedding therapy dog who usually works at Children North, will be available on Friday...
La Loche RCMP deployed a conducted energy weapon (CEW), otherwise known as a taser, during an arrest in the community last week. Police received a report Wednesday evening of an intoxicated 33-year-old man refusing to leave a residence. When RCMP arrived, the man was...
Pinehouse RCMP is asking for the public’s help in find a wanted man. An arrest warrant was issued for Jerry Tinker last week. Tinker was charged with uttering threats and resisting a peace officer in September. He was then charged last week with failure to...
The Lac La Ronge Indian Band has partnered with La Ronge’s Scattered Site Outreach Program to open a temporary homeless shelter. The emergency shelter was opened Tuesday at the Band’s Kitsaki Hall and took in 22 clients over its first night. Chief Tammy Cook-Searson...
A Lac La Ronge Indian Band corner store won a promotional contest and has donated its winnings to a local organization. The Keethanow Corner Store, run by the Keethanow Group of Businesses, won $2,500 in the contest put on by Old Dutch Chips and Pratt’s Fine Food. The...
An employment training agency is receiving provincial and federal money to help Northern Indigenous job seekers improve their skills to obtain work. Northern Career Quest Inc is getting approximately $2 million to facilitate training programs for approximately 400...
The Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, known as Janssen, will be available for Saskatchewan residents beginning Wednesday. The Janssen vaccine requires only one shot to be considered fully vaccinated. Residents who receive this vaccine will be fully immunized two...
Opposition continues to grow against a proposed peat moss development near La Ronge. Quebec-based Lambert Peat Moss is proposing to harvest the moss from four cluster areas south of that community. The life-span of the project would be 80 years and employ 25 people. A...
The Onion Lake Cree Nation has launched an app to connect with its members. Using the Communikit Platform, the mobile app will send out job opportunities, community events, COVID-19 updates and other important information. In a statement, chief Henry Lewis said using...
Marion Buller has been named the next chancellor at the University of Victoria. Buller, who is a member of the Mistawasis Nêhiyawak , a First Nation 70 km west of Prince Albert, has been a judge for 27 years and was the chief commissioner of the National Inquiry into...
