by MBC News | Aug 21, 2012
The First Nations University of Canada wants to make university education more accessible to more students. To do this, it is calling on sponsors and community leaders to play a round of golf. The tournament could raise up to $250,000. The money will be used for...
by MBC News | Aug 21, 2012
The baby of a Poundmaker First Nation woman was born on the way to hospital in the Battlefords over the weekend. WPD Ambulance operations manager Jason Toovey says it all began at about 5:05 a.m Sunday. They got a call from the Cut Knife Ambulance asking them to take...
by MBC News | Aug 21, 2012
Inmates at the Prince Albert Correctional Centre have ended their hunger strike. Last week a handful of prisoners quit accepting food after they were confined to their cells for 23 hours a day. The jail defended the move — saying the clampdown was necessary so...
by MBC News | Aug 21, 2012
An evacuation at the James Smith Cree Nation is now over. Nursing manager Rey Lindain reports that all 201 evacuees have since returned to their homes. He explains flood waters have gone down enough for people to get through the major roadways: “There’s...
by MBC News | Aug 20, 2012
A 72-year-old woman was killed in a two-vehicle collision in northern Saskatchewan over the weekend. She was the driver and lone occupant of a car involved in a crash with a pickup truck on Highway 905, about 95 km north of Southend. A 27-year-old man was driving the...
by MBC News | Aug 20, 2012
Alcohol is believed to have been a factor in a deadly rollover on the Sakimay First Nation. The accident happened Saturday afternoon. There were three people in the vehicle, all from the Broadview area. The 57-year-old man driving the car was thrown from the vehicle...
