by MBC News | May 13, 2013
RCMP are investigating after a three-year-old child drowned in Pinehouse Lake on Saturday night. Police say they received a call of a missing child at 6:50 p.m. and the child was located by a local resident at 7:35 p.m. The child was transported to the Pinehouse...
by MBC News | May 13, 2013
There’s no word on the current condition of a woman that was struck by a vehicle while walking on the Sturgeon Lake reserve over the weekend. The pedestrian received serious injuries in the incident, which took place early Saturday evening. She was eventually...
by MBC News | May 13, 2013
The 27th annual Career Symposium and Job Fair was held Monday at the Jonas Roberts Memorial Community Centre in La Ronge. The event is organized by the Interprovincial Association on Native Employment, Keewatin Chapter. Organizing committee member Cathy Wheaton says...
by MBC News | May 10, 2013
One new Saskatchewan First Nation will likely soon be added to the six already in a state of emergency because of spring flooding. Onion Lake, Cowessess, James Smith, Muscowpetung, Sakimay and Poundmaker are already in a declared state of emergency. Colin King, with...
by MBC News | May 10, 2013
A man accused of killing an Onion Lake Cree Nation woman in Saskatoon nine years ago remains without a lawyer. Douglas Hales of White Fox is charged with first-degree murder and offering an indignity to a human body in the 2004 death of Daleen Bosse. Appearing in...
by MBC News | May 10, 2013
A company with a gold mine in northern Saskatchewan is reporting a first quarter net loss of $2.5 million. That compares to a net loss of $500,000 for Claude Resources for the same three months a year ago. President Neil McMillan says production in the first quarter...
by MBC News | May 10, 2013
A 53-year-old man from the Cumberland House Cree Nation is facing charges of sexually abusing and exploiting a young girl in the community. His name cannot be released in order to protect the identity of the victim, who is under the age of 16. The man was originally...
by MBC News | May 10, 2013
It is getting a little easier to find a job in Saskatchewan if you are Aboriginal — but the unemployment rate is still three times the provincial average. The latest numbers from Statistics Canada put the off-reserve Aboriginal unemployment rate at 12%. ...
by MBC News | May 10, 2013
There was some mad scrambling over the past month, but everything has now fallen into place, and the province’s largest and longest running pow wow is set to go tomorrow at the Brandt Centre in Regina’s Exhibition Park. The First Nations University of...
by MBC News | May 10, 2013
The First Nations University of Canada’s northern campus in Prince Albert has been honoured for its efforts to reduce the school’s ecological footprint. School officials received an award this week from the Regional Centre of Expertise for Sustainable...