by MBC News | Jun 23, 2014
Efforts continue to contain a wildfire burning south of Wollaston Lake. The Warner Fire is located on the west side of Highway 905. Officials with the provincial forest fire centre say operations conducted on the weekend to reduce available fuel in key areas were...
by MBC News | Jun 23, 2014
Corner Gas actor Lorne Cardinal will be hosting this year’s Aboriginal People’s Choice Music Awards. The gala awards show is being held at the MTS Centre in Winnipeg on September 12. Saskatchewan Aboriginal artists were among those nominated....
by MBC News | Jun 20, 2014
Northern Manitoba NDP MP Niki Ashton was in La Ronge Friday gaining feedback from Aboriginal stakeholders on how to combat violence against women. Ashton tabled a private member’s bill last year that calls on the Harper government to put forward a national action plan...
by MBC News | Jun 19, 2014
Hundreds of people gathered for the 10th annual “Honouring Our Brothers and Sisters Memorial Walk” in Prince Albert on Thursday. This year’s walk honoured four people who have gone missing or been murdered including a homeless woman who was viciously assaulted in...
by MBC News | Jun 19, 2014
The head of the process that oversees Indian residential schools compensation claims is calling for all records of student abuse to be destroyed. Chief Adjudicator of the independent assessment process Dan Shapiro says in a release the only way the promise of...
by MBC News | Jun 19, 2014
Police are investigating a house fire that occurred in the northern community of Deschambault Lake on Tuesday. RCMP were called to the burning residence around 7 p.m. where an officer entered and rescued a 21-year-old female from the home. The woman had been sleeping...
