by MBC News | Aug 17, 2022
By Bailey Sutherland, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A historical First Nations trading post and Indigenous gravesite has been recognized as the province’s 56th Provincial Heritage Property by the Government of Saskatchewan thanks to two Prince Albert...
by MBC News | Aug 17, 2022
By Bailey Sutherland, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A local DJ and music producer is paying his respects to two late great Northern Saskatchewan musicians that helped pave the way for the Indigenous music scene in the province by organizing a tribute concert in...
by MBC News | Aug 16, 2022
A walk to honour First Nations people who have gone missing or been lost to violence is set to go in Prince Albert Wednesday. The 18 annual Honouring our Sisters and Brothers Memorial Walk will be departing from the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls...
by MBC News | Aug 15, 2022
After an over week-long search RCMP say the body of Lois Chartrand has been found. Chartrand, was last seen picking mushrooms on August 5 along the Hanson Lake Road north of Smeaton. An extensive search would be undertaken with several different police agencies and...
by MBC News | Aug 15, 2022
RCMP said missing 21-year-old Jordan Ben of the Big Island Lake Cree Nation was killed in a traffic collision, south of Meadow Lake late Sunday evening. Police said an SUV, driven by Ben and a semi collided. Ben was declared deceased at the scene, while the driver of...
by MBC News | Aug 12, 2022
A La Ronge woman, wanted on weapons charges from June has been arrested. RCMP says Celine Charles was arrested Thursday in Air Ronge. Mounties accuse Charles and three others in a June 19 incident in which a firearm was discharged towards an officer. Charles appeared...
by MBC News | Aug 12, 2022
A public inquest will take place next month into the death of a Sturgeon Lake First Nation man at a Saskatoon jail cell. 20-year-old Jayde Charles was found unresponsive at the Saskatoon Provincial Correctional Centre in December 2019. Authorities say lifesaving...
by MBC News | Aug 11, 2022
A 34-year-old man from Montreal Lake Cree Nation is facing over 20 separate charges after an incident on the First Nation earlier this week. RCMP said they were called to a home on the reserve on August 8 in regards to unwanted people being in a home. It was...
by MBC News | Aug 10, 2022
The Île-à-la-Crosse Friendship Centre is set to get a new building. The organization which runs the facility in the northern village has been given $2 million to construct a new building in the community. Île-à-la-Crosse Friendship Centre Executive Director Myra...
by MBC News | Aug 10, 2022
Dawn Walker said she fled Saskatoon out of fear for her safety and that of her seven-year-old son Vincent Jansen. Walker of the Okanese First Nation was arrested last Friday in Oregon City Oregon, accused of entering the United States illegally and faking the deaths...