by MBC News | Jul 5, 2013
The Saskatoon and District Labour Council kicked off its 25th annual summer snack program on Friday. The program provides daily free-of-charge lunches to inner-city kids throughout the summer months at Pleasant Hill, Westmount, Optimist, Confederation, Meadow Green...
by MBC News | Jul 5, 2013
Twenty kids from the Lac La Ronge Indian Band will get a chance to learn playing tips from Aboriginal golf pro Notah Begay the third this weekend. The kids, from La Ronge and Stanley Mission, will come into Saskatoon today, take part in a golf clinic at the Dakota...
by MBC News | Jul 4, 2013
A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for a violent offender. 49 year-old Mitchell Sasakamoose failed to return to his residence in Regina last night. He has a history of substance abuse and committing violent crimes. He is 5″8, 160 lbs, with brown eyes and...
by MBC News | Jul 4, 2013
The Saskatchewan Government Employees’ Union is not giving up on its fight to preserve manned forest fire observation towers. The union says the government is now in the process of tearing down the observation posts on top of the towers in preparation for new...
by MBC News | Jul 4, 2013
Engineers are being brought in to assess the flooding situation at the James Smith Cree Nation. Forty people were evacuated from the reserve after overland water cut off their homes from the rest of the community. Robert Head is the chief of the Peter Chapman band,...
by MBC News | Jul 4, 2013
The province has designated a 3,600 square kilometre area in the northern Saskatchewan as a new protected area. The Pink Lake Representative Area Ecological Reserve is located about 160 kilometres north of La Ronge. The boreal region provides habitat for many species...
by MBC News | Jul 4, 2013
Treaty rights are at the heart of a court battle between a northwest Saskatchewan First Nation and the provincial department of environment. The Buffalo River Dene Nation is trying to block two oil sands exploration permits on a huge tract of land located near what it...
by MBC News | Jul 4, 2013
A number of the world’s up and coming and established golfers took to the links Thursday at the Dakota Dunes Open including Aboriginal golf pro Notah Begay the third. Begay, the only Native American on the PGA Tour, is in the Saskatoon area for the week and will take...
by MBC News | Jul 4, 2013
The leader of the Saskatchewan NDP says he wants government officials to take local input into account when evacuating communities like Cumberland House. Cam Broten met with evacuees from the community this week and he says local residents of Cumberland House want...
by MBC News | Jul 4, 2013
RCMP are investigating a serious incident in Dillon. On June 28th a man allegedly broke into the residence of a 72 year-old woman and attacked her. RCMP got the call around 3:00 in the morning. The victim as taken to hospital in Île-à-la-Crosse with non-life...
