The Canadian Challenge Sled Dog Race will have a different look in 2021. In the past, the event, which starts at Elk Ridge Resort and finishes in La Ronge, has featured a 12-dog race, eight-dog race and a six-dog race. The next edition of the event will have a 10-dog...
A group of people calling for justice for an Indigenous man recently killed in the La Ronge-area held a walk on Wednesday. Muhammad Venne died in an as of yet unsolved homicide on June 3. The walk, which went from Bell’s Point on the Lac La Ronge Indian Band reserve...
An Indigenous woman is accusing Prince Albert’s Victoria Hospital of gross mistreatment after she went to emergency with a broken ankle earlier this summer. Fifty-three-year-old Janette Sanderson of the James Smith Cree Nation says she went to the hospital on...
Two women and a man have been arrested after an RCMP investigation into gang activity on the Onion Lake Cree Nation last week. On Saturday, Mounties were involved in a vehicle chase with a truck on Highway 17 where the suspects eventually abandoned the vehicle and...
The La Ronge Ice Wolves were busy in June with the SJHL Bantam Draft. With the 56th overall selection in the fifth round, the La Ronge Ice Wolves selected defenceman Blake Ekren-Bratton. The Porcupine Plain, SK product had 37 points in 27 games this past season with...
RCMP in Wollaston Lake say they disrupted a large amount of liquor from coming into the Hatchet Lake Dene Nation. Mounties say they stopped a boat coming from Barge Landing, docking at the First Nation early Sunday morning, where 58 bottles of hard liquor, and various...
Beauval RCMP are seeking four suspects in an alleged armed robbery of a business early this morning. Police say three males entered the business at Beauval Forks, threatening staff with firearms and demanding money. No shots were fired and the suspects made off with...
The Gabriel Dumont Institute announced a partnership with the United way of Saskatoon and area last week to provide funding to students attending GDI Learning Centres in La Loche and La Ronge. Through the COVID-19 Emergency Community Support Fund, $50,000 will be...
Several media reports this week indicated the SJHL is now targeting Oct. 9 as the opening day for the 2020-21 season. The season usually begins mid-September, but everything is on hold at the moment as a result of the pandemic. “I think we’re on plan “W” – just about...
A northern man occupying the west lawn of the Legislative grounds in Regina, protesting for greater government action on suicide prevention is not being evicted. Tristen Durocher, after walking more than 600 kilometres from Air Ronge to Regina in July, setup a teepee...
