by MBC News | Jan 26, 2024
A woman from La Ronge is $1 million richer after winning on a VLT earlier this week. Mary Cassie of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band was playing Vault Breaker at Eddie’s Place on Monday when she won the grand jackpot. “I sat at the VLT machine as my husband played pool. I...
by MBC News | Jan 26, 2024
By: Carol Baldwin, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Wakaw Recorder In the summer of 2023, Métis Nation-Saskatchewan purchased two adjacent river lots that had been advertised for sale in the Rural Municipality of Fish Creek just north of the junction of...
by MBC News | Jan 24, 2024
Michael Oleksyn/Daily Herald A t-shirt making station was one of the features of the Family Kinship Fair at the PAGC Urban Services Centre on Saturday. Michael Oleksyn, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A group of SIIT students took over the PAGC Urban Services...
by MBC News | Jan 19, 2024
A La Ronge woman is facing a manslaughter charge, following a hit-and-run death in September 2021. RCMP allege that Christine Charles struck a 22-year-old man on Frances Roberts Street. The victim from Sucker River later died in hospital. Charles was also charged with...
by MBC News | Jan 19, 2024
(Photo of La Ronge teachers striking earlier this week. Credit David Smith.) Saskatchewan teachers are headed back to the picket line on Monday for another one-day strike, Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation (STF) president Samantha Becotte announced on Thursday. This...
by MBC News | Jan 18, 2024
Two people are facing weapons charges following an altercation in the community of Little Red River Sunday. Mounties allege that three people, two women and a man got into an argument, in which the man pointed a firearm at one woman and stole some money. When officers...
by MBC News | Jan 17, 2024
Police are announcing murder charges in the death of a man on the Onion Lake Cree Nation on July 1, 2022. Dennis Cardinal and Kimberly Thunderchild appeared in court today charged with first degree murder of Abdo Grayman. Officers found Grayman injured in a camper...
by MBC News | Jan 16, 2024
Three people are facing drugs and weapons charges following a house fire in Air Ronge last week. Police were called to a home on Chief James Roberts Street Tuesday afternoon, where officers allegedly observed drugs and paraphernalia inside the home. Mounties claim...
by MBC News, Jenna Smith | Jan 15, 2024
A lucky man from Pinehouse Lake couldn’t believe it when he scanned his LOTTO MAX ticket on the Lotto Spot! App. Alex Ross is the winner of the December 22 EXTRA draw, walking away with $250,000. “I had to scan it a couple times just to make sure!” he laughed. “I...
by MBC News | Jan 15, 2024
The Coroner’s Inquest into the mass stabbings on James Smith Cree Nation is set to get underway this morning. The inquest will be looking at the events of the Labour Day weekend in 2022 where 11 people were killed and numerous other injured on the First Nation...
