by MBC News | Jul 24, 2014
The federal government is making a $675,000 investment with the goal of linking Indigenous people with jobs. The funding is being provided to the Aboriginal Human Resource Council so that the organization can better track job market information on economic projects...
by MBC News | Jul 24, 2014
A spokesperson for the Nuclear Waste Management Organization says the organization will continue to explore the option of a nuclear waste storage facility in Creighton in spite of recent opposition from a local First Nation. The Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation has passed...
by MBC News | Jul 24, 2014
The provincial government says increased use of technology is making the process of detecting and fighting forest fires more effective. This movement to technology has included putting video cameras in 42 wildfire detection towers. This has also resulted in putting 28...
by MBC News | Jul 24, 2014
Record water levels have now been reached at Emma and Christopher Lakes and that has prompted the Saskatchewan Water Security Agency to issue an advisory. Recent rainfall is being blamed for the high water and more precipitation is expected in the area over the next...
by MBC News | Jul 23, 2014
A disabled Aboriginal man is filing a human rights complaint after allegedly being kicked off a Saskatoon transit bus last week. Leslie Tataquason says he, his roommate, Karen Akan, and her two-year-old son, Kisihs Akan, boarded the crowded bus last Wednesday. After a...
by MBC News | Jul 23, 2014
STARS air ambulance service intends to expand its service to far northern Saskatchewan communities with the acquisition of a new helicopter. Funding for the $16 million dollar aircraft and $11 million dollar hangar is being supplied by Potash Corporation and pilot...
by MBC News | Jul 23, 2014
A Black Lake man has been found guilty of second-degree murder in connection to a fatal shooting three years ago. Twenty-nine-year-old Allister Donard was initially charged with first-degree murder in the death of Joey John Yooya. Yooya’s body was found in the woods...
by MBC News | Jul 23, 2014
The body of a man who fell out of a boat and into a northern Saskatchewan lake on Sunday night has been found. The body of the 32-year-old man was found yesterday at 2 p.m. in Reindeer Lake about 15 kilometres northeast of the northern community of Southend. The...
by MBC News | Jul 22, 2014
The Crown and defence both say a 70-year-old former Moosomin Day School teacher changed his ways while in prison. This is part of the reason he received the sentence he did for assaulting girls at the Moosomin Day School in the 1960s. On Monday, Morris David Hryniuk...
by MBC News | Jul 22, 2014
A retired United States coast guard officer is traveling to La Ronge to help in the search for a man who went missing a dozen years ago. In July 2002, 72-year-old Percy McKenzie was last seen near Powell Island on Lac La Ronge and he hasn’t been seen since. At the...
