by MBC News | Oct 3, 2017
Darlene Okemaysim-Sicotte with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Photo courtesy Facebook. A Saskatchewan advocate for Indigenous women says the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women is beginning to hit its stride. There were concerns this past...
by MBC News | Oct 3, 2017
About 30 people showed up Monday evening for the first public meeting to be held on proposed changes to alcohol regulations in La Ronge and area. The Northern Alcohol Strategy has put forward 49 recommendations and the town is in the early stages of consulting with...
by MBC News | Oct 2, 2017
La Loche. Photo courtesy of tourismsaskatchewan.com RCMP say a La Loche man is dead after a fatal collision this past weekend. The incident happened on Highway 155 shortly before 11:00 p.m. Saturday night when a car collided with an SUV. The 30-year-old victim was the...
by MBC News | Oct 2, 2017
Photo courtesy of ochapowace.com A 41-year-old man from Ochapowace First Nation is dead after a hit-and-run. RCMP say the incident happened around 7:30 p.m. Saturday. The victim was walking along a grid road about one kilometre north of Ochapowace when he was struck...
by MBC News | Oct 2, 2017
Larissa Burnouf. Photo courtesy of APTN. *UPDATE – When MBC contacted Burnouf for an interview this morning, her hotel was still under lockdown. She has since been given clearance to leave her hotel room, and at last word was packing and headed for the...
by MBC News | Sep 29, 2017
Peter V. Abrametz. Photo courtesy of Manfred Joehnck. Closing arguments were heard today in a disciplinary hearing against a Prince Albert lawyer accused of seven counts of conduct unbecoming a lawyer. The discipline committee of the Saskatchewan Law Society concluded...
by MBC News | Sep 29, 2017
Sandra Pelletier speaking at a safety conference in Ile-a-la-Crosse. Photo by Abel Charles For the second year in a row, Ile-a-la-Crosse is hosting a unique safety conference in the province’s northwest. The one-day conference kicked off on Friday and will...
by MBC News | Sep 29, 2017
Photo courtesy of saskatchewan.ca A company out of Meadow Lake is facing a hefty fine after one of its employees died at a northern Saskatchewan work site. In July 2015, a Cowan Bros. Transport worker was killed at a job site near Waskesiu after he was run over by a...
by MBC News | Sep 29, 2017
Photo courtesy of orangeshirtday.org Over the next couple days, communities across the province are coming together to honour residential school survivors by wearing an orange shirt for the annual Orange Shirt Day. While the legacy of Canada’s Residential School...
by MBC News | Sep 29, 2017
Chief Franklin Paibomsai of Whitefish River First Nation speaking at an FSIN housing forum in Saskatoon. Photo by Joel Willick. According to a First Nations Chief from Ontario, rent-to-own policies have been extremely beneficial for housing in his community. Chief...
