by MBC News | Jul 11, 2012
An official with Saskatchewan Highways says the ministry is doing the best it can to keep a northern roadway in good working order. Highways 903 and 965 are the centre of attention this week after the chief of the Canoe Lake Cree Nation released a public letter,...
by MBC News | Jul 11, 2012
Conditions are ripe for forest fires in the province. About 35 are burning right now, and 20 of them have started in the last day or so. The weather is not helping matters. The current heat wave is drying things out and lightning strikes are igniting new fires daily....
by MBC News | Jul 11, 2012
Saskatchewan continues to bake in a heat wave. Yesterday was another record-setting day in the province, with 16 communities setting previously unreached highs for yesterday’s date. Many records fell in the province’s north. La Ronge reached 33.2 degrees...
by MBC News | Jul 11, 2012
Canada’s new mortgage rules are drawing fire from an Aboriginal group. The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples says it is concerned that many low- and middle-income Canadians will never be able to own a home due to the measures that were announced this week. Ottawa...
by MBC News | Jul 10, 2012
Police have tracked down an escaped inmate in Prince Albert. Thirty-nine-year-old Terrance Yew was arrested today in a neighborhood on the north bank of the North Saskatchewan River. Yew had escaped from the Riverbend Institution days earlier. Sgt. Kelly McLean says...
by MBC News | Jul 10, 2012
Transwest Air has announced the loss of one of its managing partners, Jim Glass. Company officials say the 50-year-old died early this morning. Glass was one of the founding partners when Athabasca Airways and La Ronge Aviation/Air Sask Aviation merged in 2000. He was...
