by MBC News | Jul 11, 2012
The Transportation Safety Board says a deadly plane crash in northern Saskatchewan last summer was caused when the plane stalled. The board has released its report into the crash that happened on June 30th of last year when a de Havilland Beaver went down in Buss...
by MBC News | Jul 11, 2012
Charges of impaired driving causing bodily harm and leaving the scene of an accident have been laid against a 23-year-old La Ronge woman. La Ronge RCMP allege Naomi Roberts was behind the wheel of a vehicle that struck a pedestrian on the Bigstone reserve at about...
by MBC News | Jul 11, 2012
A Saskatchewan Aboriginal group is lashing out at a poll that concluded urban Aboriginals are as happy as other Canadians. The numbers are based on a 2009 study, but were just released by the CD Howe Institute. The president of the Aboriginal Affairs Coalition of...
by MBC News | Jul 11, 2012
An official with Saskatchewan Highways says the ministry is doing the best it can to keep a northern roadway in good working order. Highways 903 and 965 are the centre of attention this week after the chief of the Canoe Lake Cree Nation released a public letter,...
by MBC News | Jul 11, 2012
Conditions are ripe for forest fires in the province. About 35 are burning right now, and 20 of them have started in the last day or so. The weather is not helping matters. The current heat wave is drying things out and lightning strikes are igniting new fires daily....
by MBC News | Jul 11, 2012
Saskatchewan continues to bake in a heat wave. Yesterday was another record-setting day in the province, with 16 communities setting previously unreached highs for yesterday’s date. Many records fell in the province’s north. La Ronge reached 33.2 degrees...
by MBC News | Jul 11, 2012
Canada’s new mortgage rules are drawing fire from an Aboriginal group. The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples says it is concerned that many low- and middle-income Canadians will never be able to own a home due to the measures that were announced this week. Ottawa...
by MBC News | Jul 10, 2012
Police have tracked down an escaped inmate in Prince Albert. Thirty-nine-year-old Terrance Yew was arrested today in a neighborhood on the north bank of the North Saskatchewan River. Yew had escaped from the Riverbend Institution days earlier. Sgt. Kelly McLean says...
by MBC News | Jul 10, 2012
Transwest Air has announced the loss of one of its managing partners, Jim Glass. Company officials say the 50-year-old died early this morning. Glass was one of the founding partners when Athabasca Airways and La Ronge Aviation/Air Sask Aviation merged in 2000. He was...
by MBC News | Jul 10, 2012
A memorandum of understanding was signed today in Prince Albert National Park between the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations and Canada World Youth. The MOU essentially outlines a plan by the two sides to work closer together and develop outreach opportunities...
