by MBC News | Sep 27, 2016
Photo by Manfred Joehnck A small cemetery containing the remains of at least 35 children who attended the Regina Indian Industrial School over a century ago has now been declared a heritage site by Regina city council. It was a unanimous vote in favour of the...
by MBC News | Sep 26, 2016
Melfort Court of Queens Bench. Photo Courtesy of Chelsea Laskowski. Day 1 of the Melfort trial into the killing of Alpheus Burns by Candace Moostoos wrapped up earlier than planned on Monday afternoon, due to an objection by the prosecution during cross-examination of...
by MBC News | Sep 26, 2016
A long legal fight over compensation for residential school students who attended the Timber Bay Children’s Home in the Montreal Lake area will be heard at the Court of Appeal in Regina tomorrow. This action was launched by the Lac La Ronge Indian Band in 2009, which...
by MBC News | Sep 26, 2016
File photo Autopsies will be done this week after the deaths of two men at Canoe Lake Cree First Nation. On Saturday afternoon, Beauval RCMP received a call about a shot being fired at a home on the reserve. When officers arrived, they found the body of a 27-year-old...
by MBC News | Sep 23, 2016
The nomination period for municipal elections has passed in northern Saskatchewan, and now some interesting mayoral races are shaping up. In Ile-a-la-Crosse, well-known Metis Nation of Saskatchewan representative Louis Gardiner is facing off against incumbent mayor...
by MBC News | Sep 23, 2016
Valerie Standing leaves court. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski A woman has received a three and a half year penitentiary sentence for driving over and killing her commonlaw partner while drunk on the Wahpeton reserve in April of 2013. Valerie Standing, 30, had...
