by MBC News | Aug 5, 2022
A search for a missing mushroom picker is underway in northeast Saskatchewan. 74-year-old Lois Chartrand went missing Thursday morning while picking mushrooms along the Hanson Lake Road 30 kilometres north of Smeaton. RCMP say they have been in spotty contact with...
by Joel Willick | Aug 5, 2022
Dr. Ken Coates, a celebrated expert on Indigenous relations and policy, says policy around Indigenous identity continues to be complex. However, he says new policy at the University of Saskatchewan carries a “legitimacy” that is “quite significant.” The university...
by MBC News | Aug 4, 2022
UPDATE: Smeaton RCMP continue to search for Malcolm Custer August 4, 2022 – 2:59 p.m. Smeaton RCMP continue to ask for the public’s assistance in locating 69-year-old Malcolm Custer, who was last seen on June 17, 2022 in the area of the Big Sandy Fishing...
by MBC News | Aug 4, 2022
Northern families are being forced to travel to Saskatoon or Regina to access child and mental health and psychiatric in-patient services as new patient admissions in Prince Albert have been halted. The Saskatchewan Health Authority said it is addressing a staffing...
by MBC News | Aug 4, 2022
By: Julia Peterson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The StarPhoenix Jude Ratt wants more people in Saskatchewan to talk about suicide. “Suicide is not a taboo thing to talk about,” he said. “I’d like people to talk about it. The more we talk...
by MBC News | Aug 3, 2022
Prince Albert RCMP are looking for three suspects after a shooting on Little Red Reserve last weekend. According to RCMP a car was parked in the driveway of a home on the reserve and had two people inside when another car pulled up and fired on them. The two males in...
by MBC News | Aug 3, 2022
Lac La Ronge Indian Band (LLRIB) membership have voted to make some changes to the band’s elections act. In a media release sent out Wednesday morning the First Nation announced that voters had accepted five amendments to the elections act. The amendments...
by MBC News | Aug 3, 2022
By: Julia Peterson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The StarPhoenix Pride Month was an exciting, vibrant time in Saskatchewan, with flag raisings, parades and rainbow-spangled events taking place almost every day in June. But during the other 11 months of the...
by MBC News | Aug 3, 2022
Syphilis numbers in Saskatchewan are going in the wrong direction. Last week Indigenous Services Canada announced that the number of cases in the province has increased from where they were in 2019 by roughly 900 per cent. Northern Inter Tribal Health Authority...
by MBC News | Aug 2, 2022
The search effort for missing Dawn Walker and her seven-year-old son Vincent Jansen enters week two. The pair were last seen in Saskatoon in the area of the 300 block of Owen Manor on the evening of July 22. Her vehicle was located a few days later at Chief Whitecap...
