by MBC News | Apr 17, 2021
Pelican Narrows RCMP are asking for the public’s assistance locating a sexual assault suspect. The assault is alleged to have taken place around 4 a.m. Friday in the community. The suspect is described male, between 15 to 25-years-old, 5′ 5” tall and...
by MBC News | Apr 16, 2021
Meadow Lake RCMP have issued an arrest warrant for a 19-year-old man in relation to a shooting incident in the city on Tuesday night. Mounties say they responded to a report of shots being fired outside a business in the 600 block of 1st Avenue just before midnight....
by MBC News | Apr 16, 2021
RCMP say they are investigating after a man died as the result of injuries on the Onion Lake Cree Nation Thursday afternoon. Mounties say they found the man outside a residence on the First Nation around 4 p.m. and he was pronounced deceased at the scene. Police say...
by MBC News | Apr 15, 2021
A video circulating on Facebook of an attempted arrest of an Indigenous woman by a loss prevention officer in the parking lot of a Saskatoon’s FreshCo grocery store is drawing condemnation. The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations is calling for immediate...
by MBC News | Apr 15, 2021
One Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation (PBCN) community is going to have to hold a second vote for chief and council. In a media release put out on the band’s general election Facebook page, Head Electoral Officer Burke Ratte said the community of Pelican Narrows did...
by MBC News | Apr 14, 2021
If one of Theresa Laliberte’s family traplines is slated for logging, she may not know until it’s too late. As COVID-19 restrictions prevent in-person meetings between forestry firms and land users, she’s concerned that a shift to online...
by MBC News | Apr 14, 2021
The Clearwater River Dene Nation is set to receive a substantial financial settlement from the federal government. When Treaty 8 was ratified in 1900, it stipulated that certain agriculture provisions were to go to signatory First Nations who wanted to undertake...
by MBC News | Apr 13, 2021
No action will be taken against a Regina judge, who in September visited Tristen Durocher’s protest camp after ruling in his favour. Graeme Mitchell went to the camp of the Métis man, two days after ruling that the bylaws governing Wascana grounds were...
by MBC News | Apr 13, 2021
Men of the North wrapped up its four-day family awareness support campaign in La Ronge Monday afternoon. The campaign included a number of activities such as walks in honour of missing and murdered Indigenous girls, boys, women and men and residential school...
by MBC News | Apr 13, 2021
Most voters of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation go to the polls to elect a new chief and council on Tuesday. The communities of Pelican Narrows, Deschambault Lake, Sandy Bay, Amisk Lake/Denare Beach and Prince Albert Urban will cast ballots for chief and council...
