by MBC News | Jul 28, 2021
The New Democrats are urging Premier Scott Moe to institute greater localized public health measures in northern Saskatchewan to assist communities in addressing the spikes in new COVID-19 infections. The hardest hit community of Buffalo River Dene Nation, located in...
by MBC News | Jul 28, 2021
Cameco reported loses of $37 million in the second quarter, due to production decreases at its Cigar Lake facility in Northern Saskatchewan and its strategy of investing in digital and automation technologies. Non-essential personnel were temporarily evacuated from...
by MBC News | Jul 27, 2021
Prince Albert police are reaching out to the public for tips on an unsolved homicide from last year. Tuesday marks the one-year anniversary of the death of 27-year-old Dorian Michel. Police responded to a call of a serious assault in the 400 block of 18th Street West...
by MBC News | Jul 27, 2021
Black bears and the overturned garbage bins where they’ve found their meals, have been recently spotted throughout a La Ronge residential area. And conservation officers have been dealing with the unwanted visitors. Matthew Tokaruk, a black bear biologist with the...
by MBC News | Jul 27, 2021
Newly released federal government data shows violent crime continues to be a problem in Prince Albert. Out of 300 municipalities with a population over 10,000 in Canada, the city ranked fifth in terms of violent crime numbers in 2020. This is a slight decrease from...
by MBC News | Jul 27, 2021
A spokesperson for the First Nations Health Authority in British Columbia is advocating for Indigenous communities who have had to evacuate due to wildfires. Nel Wieman, the acting-deputy chief medical officer at the authority, said these evacuations can be triggering...
by MBC News | Jul 27, 2021
A Councillor with the City of Prince Albert said leadership there needs to do more to advance reconciliation in concrete ways, such as implementing more Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action. “I watched communities coming together to lower flags, cancel...
by MBC News | Jul 27, 2021
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations said the province needs to ramp up efforts to help curb the rising COVID-19 infections impacting the Buffalo River Dene Nation. The Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority which declared an outbreak there Thursday, said...
by MBC News | Jul 26, 2021
Big River RCMP say a 35-year-old man died as the result of a single-vehicle rollover on the weekend. Police say the accident happened in the early morning hours of Saturday on Highway 942, about 2.5 kilometres north of the Highway 55 junction. The North Battleford...
by MBC News | Jul 26, 2021
The Saskatchewan Health Authority is ending its mass vaccination program early next month, focused on targeting communities which are under and unvaccinated. The SHA will stop its drive-thru appointments August 8, shifting to walk-in clinics, planned summer events,...
