by MBC News | Oct 6, 2014
A 65-year-old man from the Yellow Quill First Nation is dead following a single vehicle rollover just south of Tisdale. RCMP say a truck was found overturned in the ditch on Highway 35 at around 8 a.m. today. Charlie Machiskinic was declared dead at the scene....
by MBC News | Oct 6, 2014
The province has improved access to vision care for people living with diabetes. Annual eye exams with an optometrist will now be covered through Saskatchewan Health. About 90,000 people are afflicted with diabetes in the province and this rate is two to five times...
by MBC News | Oct 6, 2014
The jury has been selected at the inquest into the death of Dylan LaChance. The 16-year-old LaChance, of the Big River First Nation, passed away while he was at the Prince Albert Youth Residence in September of last year. LaChance was found in medical distress at the...
by MBC News | Oct 6, 2014
The ongoing Saskatoon transit dispute is affecting people who access the food bank. Roughly 25 per cent of the 12,000 people who use the food bank’s services each month depend on bus service to get there. Saskatoon Food Bank Executive Director Laurie O’Connor says as...
by MBC News | Oct 6, 2014
It’s not known if charges will be laid following a two-vehicle collision which took the life of a 75-year-old woman near Duck Lake on Saturday afternoon. The crash on Highway 11 was reported around 5:30 p.m. The RCMP says a southbound car collided with another vehicle...
by MBC News | Oct 6, 2014
First Nations across the country need to develop plans to keep local money at home and prevent economic leakage to nearby communities, says a recent study. The study was done by Vancouver-based accounting firma Myers Norris Penny for the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne in...
