Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett speaks at Tuesday’s conference. Photo courtesy NWAC, Twitter. The federal Liberal government is kicking off what it calls the “first phase” of its inquiry into the tragic phenomenon of missing and murdered indigenous...
The 33-year old man charged with the second-degree murder of Karina Wolfe made another court appearance Tuesday morning in Saskatoon. Jerry Constant stood behind a wall of plexi-glass listening to the judge tell him Legal Aid is still trying to find a lawyer to...
Canada’s First Nations Leaders are welcoming a new beginning and a new relationship with the federal government. On Thursday morning, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau received round after round of applause as he outlined his government’s five-point plan to develop a...
Onion Lake RCMP say an 18-year-old reported missing on Saturday has been found dead. Police say the body of Ethan Eagle was located around 5 p.m. on Monday in the Onion Lake area. He had last been seen on Friday evening leaving a home on the reserve, and was reported...
A Stanley Mission man is out of custody, and won’t be back in court to face his attempted murder charge again until April. Jeffery Thomas Roberts, 41, was arrested in late September for a shooting inside a Stanley Mission home. One of the three people in the home was...
Prince Albert police are trying to track down the person who’d been holding the gun when a man was shot in the leg at a house party early Saturday morning. So far, investigators say the shooting wasn’t random – it happened during a fight in a...
A man has been charged with second-degree murder for a suspicious death out of Pelican Narrows last week. Around 11:30 last Monday night, the RCMP found the body of 26-year-old Antoine Custer outdoors in an open space in Pelican Narrows. They’d initially labeled...
Prince Albert Provincial Court. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski On Monday, an Ahtahkakoop woman received a lengthy sentence for a string of startling robberies this summer in Prince Albert. Carmine Patti Nayneecassum was told she will spend three years in a penitentiary....
Landscape near Weyakwin following 2015 wildfires. Photo by Liam Richards. The forest fires in northern Saskatchewan are long out, but the SGEU is still putting heat on the government about how the crisis was handled. The union has sent mail-outs to northern...
Aftermath of wildfires at Weyakwin. Photo by Liam Richards. Recent government consultation meetings with northern leaders and emergency officials about the summer’s wildfires have been by invitation only. Government Relations is one of the ministries holding...
