by MBC News | Aug 15, 2022
RCMP said missing 21-year-old Jordan Ben of the Big Island Lake Cree Nation was killed in a traffic collision, south of Meadow Lake late Sunday evening. Police said an SUV, driven by Ben and a semi collided. Ben was declared deceased at the scene, while the driver of...
by Joel Willick | Aug 15, 2022
The federal government is investing $3.7 million in Saskatchewan tourism with over $900,000 of that investment earmarked for Indigenous tourism projects. On Monday morning, at an event at Wanuskewin Heritage Park, Tourism Minister Randy Boissonnault, announced the...
by Joel Willick | Aug 15, 2022
After a two year hiatus the annual Woodland Cree Gathering is returning in a few weeks and organizers are expecting a big turnout. The gathering has historically been a yearly meeting of the Woodland Cree communities of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band, Peter Ballantyne...
by MBC News | Aug 12, 2022
A La Ronge woman, wanted on weapons charges from June has been arrested. RCMP says Celine Charles was arrested Thursday in Air Ronge. Mounties accuse Charles and three others in a June 19 incident in which a firearm was discharged towards an officer. Charles appeared...
by MBC News | Aug 12, 2022
A public inquest will take place next month into the death of a Sturgeon Lake First Nation man at a Saskatoon jail cell. 20-year-old Jayde Charles was found unresponsive at the Saskatoon Provincial Correctional Centre in December 2019. Authorities say lifesaving...
by MBC News | Aug 11, 2022
A 34-year-old man from Montreal Lake Cree Nation is facing over 20 separate charges after an incident on the First Nation earlier this week. RCMP said they were called to a home on the reserve on August 8 in regards to unwanted people being in a home. It was...
