by MBC News | Aug 25, 2014
After two years of negotiations, the northern community of Southend and uranium mining company Cameco formally signed a ten-year business development agreement Monday. The agreement has a number of goals including increasing local participation in the industry,...
by MBC News | Aug 25, 2014
Search and rescue officials are relieved a weekend operation had a happy ending after an elderly woman went missing in the bush. Meadow Lake RCMP say 89-year-old Alice Gobert was located after being reported missing after a berry-picking trip Saturday evening. A...
by MBC News | Aug 25, 2014
RCMP continue to investigate a fatal single vehicle accident near the Sturgeon Lake First Nation. The crash happened early Sunday morning and has claimed one life and seriously injured two other people. Mounties say a 24-year-old local man was declared dead at the...
by MBC News | Aug 25, 2014
Alcohol is believed to be a factor in a single vehicle rollover near the Pasqua First Nation on Saturday morning. Police say the vehicle had veered off a grid road and rolled end over end. One of the occupants was airlifted to a Regina hospital with life-threatening...
by MBC News | Aug 22, 2014
Rescue officials have located the body of a man who is believed to have drowned in southeastern Saskatchewan on Wednesday. The 44-year-old man from White Bear First Nation was last seen trying to swim across a river near the Alameda dam a little after 4 p.m. Initial...
by MBC News | Aug 22, 2014
The Liberal Party’s health critic says Stephen Harper’s remark that the issue of missing and murdered Aboriginal women isn’t a “sociological phenomenon” is an “ignorant statement for a Prime Minister to make.” MP Hedy Fry is one of several politicians taking...
by MBC News | Aug 22, 2014
A 40-year-old Poundmaker First Nation man has gone missing. RCMP say Vernon Arthur Kasokeo was last seen on the reserve on Monday. Kasokeo is described as 5’ 7’’ tall and weighing about 185 pounds. He also has black hair and brown eyes. Anyone with information about...
by MBC News | Aug 22, 2014
A new report says students attending residential schools not only suffered abuse at the hands of authorities but also from fellow students. The report was written by Amy Bombay for the Aboriginal Healing Foundation. Former AHF executive director Mike DeGagné says the...
by MBC News | Aug 22, 2014
A construction firm has been fined for unauthorized alteration to a riverbank shoreline in northern Saskatchewan. Cando Contracting has been fined $12,600 for altering the shoreline on the Chitek River near Meadow Lake. The Chitek River provides drinking water to the...
by MBC News | Aug 22, 2014
Twenty-two Aboriginal teenagers from all over Saskatchewan are learning about what a life in the Canadian Armed Forces might be like this week. The Aboriginal youth leadership camp, called “Eagle’s Nest”, began on Monday and wraps up with a graduation on Saturday....
