by MBC News | Jul 24, 2023
Workers have began removing dirt in order to pour concrete for the windmill bases for the Bekevar Wind Energy project in southeast Saskatchewan. Photo by: Clarence Cummins. Sierra D’Souza Butts, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter By: Sierra...
by Joel Willick | Jul 24, 2023
A provincial judge has allowed parts of an application from the legal team of Dawn Walker to move forward. Walker, allegedly faked her own death and fled to the United States last summer and now faces several charges with an upcoming trial in November. Walker’s...
by MBC News | Jul 24, 2023
Firefighters from the La Ronge Regional Fire Department battle blazes in northern Saskatchewan in May 2023. Photo submitted by La Ronge Regional Fire Department By: Kimiya Shokoohi, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The StarPhoenix Resources and training are...
by MBC News | Jul 21, 2023
A public inquest will be held next month into the death of a woman at the Sandy Bay RCMP detachment. Marlene Bear was found unresponsive in her cell on July 25, 2021. Staff there did attempt resuscitation efforts, but Bear was pronounced deceased. The inquest will...
by MBC News | Jul 21, 2023
(Photo of Lebret Residential School) WARNING: Disturbing content By: Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com Senate Standing Committee on Indigenous Peoples chair Senator Brian Francis calls a report released July 19 a “road map” to help...
by bryanorthner | Jul 21, 2023
Frank Young is being memorialized in two communities. The young boy, who died after falling into a river near his home on the Red Earth Cree Nation is being remembered with the placement of a cross on Red Earth, which is on the land near where he was found after 81...
