by MBC News | May 14, 2014
The grand reopening of the Big River sawmill took place Tuesday. The facility is the largest of its kind in the province and will employ up to 100 people when at full capacity. The sawmill has an annual production capacity of 250 million board feet. Another 250 jobs...
by MBC News | May 14, 2014
Cameco’s McArthur River mine has been awarded the prestigious John T. Ryan National Safety Trophy for the best safety performance in the metal mine category in 2013. Last year, the McArthur River mine had zero reportable injuries for close to 900,000 working hours....
by MBC News | May 14, 2014
The CEO of New North is calling on both the federal and provincial governments to revamp a national infrastructure program. Al Loke says 90 per cent of the Provincial-Territorial Infrastructure Component goes to large cities with a mere 10 per cent allocated for...
by MBC News | May 14, 2014
Twenty-four students from Oskayak High School in Saskatoon will be traveling to Hawaii on Wednesday to learn about Aboriginal culture in another country. This is the fourth year of the school’s cultural exchange program. In 2014, the students are headed to Maui. Randy...
by MBC News | May 12, 2014
Court heard an audiotape Monday afternoon of Douglas Hales allegedly leading undercover officers to the site of Daleen Bosse’s remains in August 2008. Hales is on trial for first-degree murder in the death of the 25-year-old woman from Onion Lake Cree Nation. Bosse’s...
by MBC News | May 12, 2014
RCMP are requesting the public’s assistance in locating a woman reported missing from the Broadview area. 20-year-old Tasha Longjohn was last seen walking away from her family’s rural residence near Broadview at about 4:30 p.m. this past Saturday. Mounties...
by MBC News | May 12, 2014
The Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation is part of an experiment in health care that will see robotics used to put doctors and patients face to face even though they are separated by hundreds of kilometres. The pilot project is being launched in the remote northeastern...
by MBC News | May 12, 2014
Saskatchewan residents are generally supportive of nuclear research and technology, including uranium mining and nuclear power. That is according to results from The Saskatchewan Nuclear Attitudes Study released by the Nuclear Policy Research Initiative at the...
by MBC News | May 12, 2014
A compromise deal has been reached ending a week-long stalemate at the Cowessess First Nation east of Regina. Protesters have removed chains from the doors of the band office and the school after a weekend meeting with the chief and the RCMP. Protest organizer Dana...
by MBC News | May 12, 2014
The mayor of La Ronge has announced he will seek the Saskatchewan Party nomination for the Cumberland constituency in the next provincial election. Thomas Sierzycki says if he wins the candidacy, he will continue on as mayor until the election. Sierzycki says he...
