by MBC News | Jun 24, 2021
A member of the Prince Albert Police Service is facing criminal charges after an incident this past April. Constable Darcy Bear, who according to police is a 16 year member of the service, is charged with unlawfully being in a dwelling house. Police said the charges...
by MBC News | Jun 23, 2021
RCMP say a 26-year-old woman from the Mistawasis First Nation and two teens have been charged after an armed robbery in the Rural Municipality of Shellbrook on Saturday. Police say four suspects entered the property in the early morning hours making off with firearms,...
by MBC News | Jun 23, 2021
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations says hundreds of unmarked graves have been discovered on the site of a former residential school in southeast Saskatchewan. The organization says the unmarked graves are on the grounds of the former Marieval Indian...
by MBC News | Jun 23, 2021
Health care providers in northern Saskatchewan are working to provide mental health supports to those who may be in need. With the discovery of unmarked graves at former residential schools in Canada supporting survivors and those dealing with inter-generational...
by MBC News | Jun 22, 2021
Prince Albert police have released the name of a man who died on Sunday afternoon as the result of a gunshot wound. Police were called to a residence in the 1900 block of 14th Street West around 2 p.m. after receiving a weapons complaint. There they found 23-year-old...
by MBC News | Jun 22, 2021
The federal government is earmarking $4.88 million, a portion of $27 million already existing to support research and exploration of unmarked graves, burials and undocumented deaths at Saskatchewan residential schools. “We’re going to take the funding, and...
by MBC News | Jun 22, 2021
A Black Lake woman is facing a bootlegging charge, after being stopped by RCMP near Southend early Saturday morning. Mounties claim that officers seized 31 750-millilitre bottles of whiskey, two 1.71-litre bottles of whiskey, three 1-litre and 12 single-serving...
by MBC News | Jun 22, 2021
By: Nick Pearce, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter StarPhoenix Ronalda Vandale shaved her braids just as they grew back. The Muskoday First Nation woman first cut them when her mother, a residential school survivor, died 10 years ago. The second time was for her...
by MBC News | Jun 22, 2021
By: Jessica R. Durling, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Humboldt Journal The Horizon School Division raised flags alongside partner First Nations and community organizers to mark National Indigenous Peoples Day. Kevin Garinger, Horizon’s director of education,...
by MBC News | Jun 22, 2021
By: Jessica Durling, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Humboldt Journal Looking back, Albert McCallum compares the eight years he spent at the Île-à-la-Crosse Indian Residential School with his six siblings to prison. The residential school system was designed...
