by MBC News | Dec 6, 2021
The province is investing up to $1 million to assist Alberta in its fight to stop the migration of the Mountain Pine Beetle. The wood-boring insect, which made its presence known to British Columbia in the early 1990’s is responsible for impacting more than 18 million...
by MBC News | Dec 6, 2021
SaskTel has announced the next set of communities who will get it’s fibre optic internet service. 24 rural communities will be next up to get the faster internet service, including La Loche, Buffalo Narrows and Île-à-la Crosse. This is phase four of the...
by MBC News | Dec 3, 2021
The Whitecap Dakota First Nation said it is the first in the province to provide its households and businesses with full fibre-optic broadband internet services. More than 200 households, the band office, health centre and business park now have access to...
by MBC News | Dec 2, 2021
A member of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation is the University of Saskatchewan’s new Indigenous Storyteller-in-Residence. Zoey Roy, a Cree, Dene and Métis poet who grew up in Saskatoon, has been working as an artist for 15 years. As Storyteller-in-Residence, Roy will...
by MBC News | Dec 2, 2021
The health authority serving the Athabasca region is working to get children between the ages of five and 11 vaccinated. Athabasca Health Authority (AHA) CEO Allan Adam said they have started administering the new children’s vaccines and added they have been seeing...
by MBC News | Dec 2, 2021
The YWCA Regina has approached the City for financial help in constructing a healing lodge and ceremony space within its new building. A new center in the downtown would cost $54 million, with the healing lodge being $4 million of the total cost. “YWCA Regina serves...
by MBC News | Dec 2, 2021
Two men from Wollaston Lake have been found dead after they were reported missing to police Tuesday. RCMP received a report Tuesday of two overdue snowmobilers who had left to get wood from Larson Lake, a nearby lake, the previous day. Police joined local volunteers...
by MBC News | Dec 1, 2021
A member of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation is being featured in a national ad campaign for an Indigenous-owned makeup company. Zoey Roy, a Cree, Dene and Métis woman who grew up in Saskatoon, performed her spoken-word poem titled ‘Unsilent’ in Cheekbone...
by MBC News | Dec 1, 2021
RCMP says an investigation into a suspicious death on Red Earth Cree Nation is underway. Mounties say officers responded to an altercation at a home in the community early Tuesday morning. Few details have been released on the alleged altercation, but RCMP says one...
by MBC News | Dec 1, 2021
La Ronge has elected a familiar face to town office. Matt Klassen won the town’s by-election Tuesday with 125 votes. The by-election was held to fill the spot of the late Hugh Watt. Klassen was a councillor for the town from 2016 to 2020. He ran for mayor during...
