by MBC News | Mar 31, 2014
Ten years after the last attempt to amend their election act, members of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation have given their blessing to a new election code. Seventy-six per cent of voters who took part in the band’s ratification vote this past Friday were in...
by MBC News | Mar 31, 2014
An MBC-produced animated television series has been nominated for an award at the Yorkton Film Festival. “Louis Says” is one of four nominees for a Golden Sheaf Award in the Children’s and Youth Production Category. The half-hour show is designed to...
by MBC News | Mar 31, 2014
It has now been more than a week and there is still no sign of two Regina women who were last seen at a home where their 53-year-old roommate was murdered. The body of Ray Yacevich was found in the burned out remains of a home in North Central Regina on March 23. He...
by MBC News | Mar 31, 2014
A lawyer has been appointed by a court for a former Moosomin First Nation Day School teacher who is accused of indecent assault. Sixty-nine-year-old Morris David Hryniuk faces eight separate charges of indecent assault. They are alleged to have occurred between 1964...
by MBC News | Mar 28, 2014
A gold mining company has taken another big hit at its northern Saskatchewan operations. Golden Band Resources lost more than $15.6 million during the last quarter, adding to a string of losses that go back two years. It is the biggest quarterly loss for Golden Band...
by MBC News | Mar 28, 2014
Regina police want to talk to a mother and daughter who shared a home with a man who was murdered last weekend. At first, it looked like a death caused by a fire – but an autopsy has determined 53-year-old Ray Yacevich died as a result of foul play. His body was...
by MBC News | Mar 28, 2014
The historic Bell of Batoche will be in La Ronge on Saturday evening for a public viewing. The bell, which was taken from the Métis at the Battle of Batoche in 1885, went missing for a number of years but reappeared at Back to Batoche Days last summer. The historic...
by MBC News | Mar 28, 2014
The University of Saskatchewan and Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies have signed a new agreement to work more closely together to improve the educational outcomes of Indigenous students. As a result, the two institutions will work collaboratively on...
by MBC News | Mar 27, 2014
The chief of the Buffalo River Dene Nation has been charged with assault after an incident earlier this week. On Monday, Dillon RCMP received a report of a 29-year-old man being assaulted at a home on the reserve. Forty-one-year-old Lance Byhette was arrested at his...
by MBC News | Mar 27, 2014
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s final national event took place in Edmonton on Thursday. It was the independent commission’s seventh national event. There were more Indian residential schools in Alberta than in any other province. TRC Commissioner...
