by MBC News | Dec 12, 2013
RCMP have issued a public alert about an armed and dangerous man that may be in the Onion Lake area. Twenty-two-year-old Marlon Lacombe is wanted for a violent armed robbery in the rural area of Dewberry, Alberta, near Lloydminster. He is of no fixed address, but RCMP...
by MBC News | Dec 11, 2013
It is clear Stanley Robillard should have never been released from a Saskatoon hospital three years ago. What remains unclear is why he was. At a coroner’s inquest into the death of the 46-year-old man Wednesday, three Saskatoon police officers testified they believed...
by MBC News | Dec 11, 2013
A young woman from the Pelican Lake First Nation sobbed in court Wednesday afternoon as she tearfully apologized for causing the death of a 21-year-old man outside a Prince Albert bar three years ago. Danielle Chamakese, 22, cried as she told the family of Daniel...
by MBC News | Dec 11, 2013
The Onion Lake Cree Nation says it is accountable to its band members, and it has an open and transparent government process. In a news release, the first nation, which straddles the Alberta Saskatchewan border took great exception to criticism from the Canadian...
by MBC News | Dec 11, 2013
SaskPower is making a $2-million investment in its future workforce. One million dollars will go to the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies, with another million going to SIAST. The corporation is expecting a wave of retirements over the next 10 years. At...
by MBC News | Dec 11, 2013
A former deputy minister for the federal government is shedding more light on why First Nations and the government can’t seem to agree on how underfunded First Nations schools are. Speaking this morning at the special chief’s assembly in Quebec, Don Drummond says...
by MBC News | Dec 11, 2013
The Hatchet Lake First Nation has announced the purchase of a Prince Albert-based trucking company. Hatchet Lake Development Limited has acquired the assets of Red’s Transport and the new company is known as Caribou Transport. It is the first First Nations-owned...
by MBC News | Dec 10, 2013
An autopsy has been ordered after the deaths of two infant boys yesterday at Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation. Police were called to a home on the reserve around 10:30 in the morning after reports that the twin boys were not breathing. Loon Lake RCMP Sergeant Shawn...
by MBC News | Dec 10, 2013
The mayor of La Ronge says the lay-off of 120 miners by Golden Band Resources is a big hit for a small community. The company announced it was suspending operations at three of its mines in the area indefinitely as a result of rising costs and lower revenues for gold....
by MBC News | Dec 10, 2013
Stanley Robillard should have been seen by a doctor within a half hour of arriving at a Saskatoon hospital three years ago but it never happened. Instead, the coroner’s inquest into the death of the 46-year-old man heard Tuesday he was released from St. Paul’s...
