All SaskTel services are now up and running in the Spiritwood area. For much of the past week, area residents have been without cellular, internet, telephone and 911 services after a fire destroyed the SaskTel building in Spiritwood on Aug. 23. In cases of emergency,...
One northern school will have students learning virtually. The Clearwater River Dene Nation School will see classes online for at least the first month. This comes after that community and neighbouring La Loche dealt with two significant COVID-19 outbreaks. School...
The La Ronge Ice Wolves kicked off their annual hockey school on Monday at the JRMCC. Kids from the ages of 5-16 are taking part. Ice Wolves Head Coach and GM Kevin Kaminski and Associate Coach Gaelan Patterson are working with the kids. Kaminski has been teaching...
RCMP are looking for suspects after a weekend shooting in Onion Lake. Shortly before 9 p.m. Saturday evening, police received a call about a man who had been shot near a business on the reserve. The 35-year-old was taken to hospital in Lloydminster with non-life...
RCMP said a woman is dead after being ejected from an SUV, which crashed near Pelican Narrows Saturday evening. The single vehicle collision occurred 16 kilometres from that community on Highway 135 at approximately 8:30 PM. Police said the SUV was carrying seven...
A Lac La Ronge Indian Band councillor has been given a 45-day stop-work order from the province to cease building a culture camp in Grandmother’s Bay. An employee from the Ministry of Parks, Sport and Culture delivered the order to Gerald McKenzie on Tuesday at the...
Police have arrested another person in the Tiki Laverdiere murder case. Laverdiere’s remains were found in the North Battleford area in July 2019. On Wednesday, Edmonton police arrested 36-year-old Samuel Takakenew who was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant. He is...
For the second weekend in a row, RCMP say they prevented a significant amount of contraband alcohol from coming into the Wollaston Lake area. From Aug. 22-23, police say they seized more than 100 bottles of illegal alcohol. This included hard liquor, wine, beer and...
A proposal to move La Ronge’s homeless shelter to a new location was rejected by town council Wednesday night. The Kikinahk Friendship Centre, which oversees the Scattered Site Outreach Program, presented an application with the hopes of moving from the current rental...
The Lac La Ronge Indian Band is calling out the RCMP after video emerged on social media earlier this week of an officer punching a window and yelling expletives while trying to gain access to a residence in Stanley Mission. The video is posted on the Facebook page of...
