by MBC News | Feb 15, 2022
Buffalo River Dene Nation band members will be heading to the polls next week. Norma Catarat and Freddy Billette are both vying for the position of chief. Three councillor candidates, Debbie Billette, Louis Chanalquay and Grayson Janvier, are running to be re-elected....
by MBC News | Feb 15, 2022
Warning: Disturbing Content. Additional unmarked graves have been detected at two former residential schools near Kamsack. The Keeseekoose First Nation revealed the results of ground-penetrating radar searches, indicating that 42 hits were detected at the Fort Pelly...
by MBC News | Feb 15, 2022
The body of a man from Prince Albert missing since December has been found. Police say human remains were found in a rural area near Hague this past Thursday and it was confirmed the remains were those of Byron Bear. Bear was reported missing on December 7 after it...
by MBC News | Feb 14, 2022
The member of parliament who represents northern Saskatchewan is speaking out about recent demonstrations against COVID-19 public health measures. Desnethé-Missinippi-Churchill River MP Gary Vidal lays the blame for the protests, which have shut down borders crossings...
by MBC News | Feb 14, 2022
Comparisons are being drawn between Premier Scott Moe’s perceptions of the trucking, COVID-19 mandates demonstrations and that of Indigenous protests in Regina. Moe has supported the truckers early in their quest to have the federal government remove all remaining...
by MBC News | Feb 11, 2022
It’s been nearly two years since Métis woman Megan Gallagher went missing in Saskatoon. Now, Gallagher’s sister says she will be joining a nationwide walk in her honour. Lindsey Bishop will be travelling to Vancouver this weekend to join Krista’s...
by MBC News | Feb 11, 2022
A uranium mining company is looking at opening a mill in the southwest zone of the Athabasca Basin. Fission Uranium Corporation, who is based out of British Columbia, is hoping to open a mine 155 kilometres north of La Loche on highway 155. The province will now be...
by MBC News | Feb 10, 2022
A Red Earth Cree Nation man convicted of First-degree murder will be getting a new trial. In 2016, Davis Demery Lester Whitehead was arrested and charged with the murder of Ramsey Whitehead. Davis Whitehead would later be convicted by a jury of his peers with...
by MBC News | Feb 10, 2022
A northern chief is worried of the affects lifting COVID-19 restrictions will have on her people. Chief of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band Tammy Cook-Searson said she doesn’t think it’s the right time yet. “I think it’s too soon to be lifting the restrictions with no...
by Joel Willick | Feb 10, 2022
Several Saskatchewan First Nations have come together to form a controlling ownership stake in a new renewable energy company. The nine band’s under the Meadow Lake Tribal Council, Mistawasis First Nation, and miEnergy have partnered together to form miEnergy...
