by MBC News | Oct 16, 2012
Premier Brad Wall has unveiled his plan to grow the province’s population to 1.2 million by 2020. The goal will require billions of dollars, tens of thousands more workers, and hundreds of millions in debt reduction. Right now, just over a million people call...
by MBC News | Oct 16, 2012
Mounties are investigating a fatal crash near Big River involving a moose and a truck. Just after 3:00 this morning, officers attended the scene on Highway 55, about 35 km north of the community. RCMP say it appears the truck was travelling south when it hit the...
by MBC News | Oct 16, 2012
The findings of a study into diabetes in the urban Aboriginal population finds it should be treated as a family illness — and that cultural healing should be part of the process. The research paper was released at a major diabetes conference in Vancouver last...
by MBC News | Oct 16, 2012
The head of the Aboriginal Affairs Coalition of Saskatchewan says he wants to hear more Aboriginal issues discussed in the Saskatoon civic election campaign. Kim Beaudin says, so far, he has heard virtually nothing from the three men who are running to be mayor....
by MBC News | Oct 16, 2012
A 24-year-old man from Buffalo Narrows is due in court today after allegedly leading police on a high-speed chase through Prince Albert. Police say it was around 2:00 a.m. on Saturday when a pickup truck ran through a red light, passing a police vehicle stopped at the...
by MBC News | Oct 15, 2012
Two suspects charged in last week’s double murder on the Standing Buffalo First Nation made their first court appearances today. One of them is a 17-year-old boy — the other is 22-year-old Kody Bear. The courtroom in Fort Qu’Appelle was packed. ...
by MBC News | Oct 15, 2012
The Lac La Ronge Indian Band has become the first band in the province to offer child and family services both on- and off-reserve. Social Services Minister June Draude was in La Ronge today to officially sign the new agreement with the Lac La Ronge Indian Child and...
by MBC News | Oct 15, 2012
They saved a woman from a burning truck in a two-vehicle crash. Because of that, three Pelican Narrows men are receiving medals for bravery from Lt. Gov. Vaughn Schofield in Regina today. Steven Merasty, Kendall Linklater, and Larry Custer came upon a two-vehicle...
by MBC News | Oct 15, 2012
RCMP continue to investigate a fatal vehicle-pedestrian collision in the La Ronge area. Mounties say 31-year-old Jonathan Derek Charles was seriously injured while walking on Bells Point Road over the weekend. He was taken to the local health centre, where he...
by MBC News | Oct 15, 2012
RCMP have broken up an apparent grow op on the Pasqua First Nation. Mounties say officers raided a home on Saturday and discovered several cannibis marijuana plants. Thirty-year-old Corrine Keepness and 26-year-old Cordell Keepness each face charges of producing the...
