by MBC News | May 22, 2014
The Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority has announced it is adding another 250 slot machines to its casinos. The slot machines are set to be installed in SIGA’s six casinos in 2015 bringing the total number to 2,120. The last time slot machines were added to SIGA...
by MBC News | May 22, 2014
Saskatchewan-born fiddle legend John Arcand has been honoured with the 2014 Canada Council Molson Prize for his contributions to the arts. Arcand has performed, taught and preserved the tradition of Métis fiddling for decades. His career spans more than 60 years. He...
by MBC News | May 22, 2014
Métis author Shelly Ann Wieringa’s life reads like a book and that’s because she’s put her life story in a book. Her first book, I Never Lied: A True Story About Survival, is the recipient of the 2014 Esquao Award for Arts and Literature. The award recognizes the...
by MBC News | May 20, 2014
The chief of the English River First Nation in Northern Saskatchewan will be meeting with Cameco officials this week, but she is not overly concerned about the company s decision to put a major project on hold. Citing world market conditions, Cameco has withdrawn its...
by MBC News | May 20, 2014
A Saskatoon courtroom heard yet another alleged murder confession by Douglas Hales on Tuesday. Hales is on trial for first-degree murder in the death of 25-year-old Daleen Bosse of Onion Lake Cree Nation who was last seen in May 2004. Over the course of the trial,...
by MBC News | May 20, 2014
A man from northwestern Saskatchewan man has been fined $19,360 for the illegal sale of fish. Leon Morin pleaded guilty in Buffalo Narrows Provincial Court last week to four charges under the Saskatchewan Fisheries Act and Regulations. Environment Ministry...
by MBC News | May 18, 2014
RCMP say charges are pending following a collision on a grid road just south of Punnichy Saturday afternoon that killed three people. According to police, all three victims were in a pickup truck that rear-ended a road grader travelling in the same direction. Two...
by MBC News | May 17, 2014
The chief of the Key First Nation has resigned following a guilty plea to a drug trafficking charge. Band rules gave sixty-one-year-old Clarence Papequash no option other than to step down but he will be eligible to run in future elections. Papequash’s guilty plea was...
by MBC News | May 17, 2014
A Saskatoon courtroom saw a video Friday afternoon of a sobbing Doug Hales admitting to police Daleen Bosse died in his company but insisting he did not kill her. Hales is on trial for first-degree murder for the death of the 25-year-old woman from Onion Lake Cree...
by MBC News | May 15, 2014
The chief of the Key First Nation has pleaded guilty to one count of drug trafficking. Sixty-one-year-old Clarence Papequash entered the guilty plea Thursday on the first day of his trial. Sentencing is scheduled for July 4 in Regina. Papequash is among 20 people...
