by MBC News | Jul 4, 2019
A basketball player from the Thunderchild First Nation has been selected as the new face of a Nike campaign. Michael Linklater plays for the Saskatchewan Rattlers in the Canadian Elite Basketball League and will now be seen modelling pieces from the Nike N7...
by MBC News | Jul 4, 2019
The provincial government says it is not in communication with the Pheasant Rump Nakota Nation regarding its cannabis retail operation. “The government is not in current communication with unauthorized cannabis dispensaries,” a statement from the Sask. government...
by MBC News | Jul 3, 2019
RCMP say the body of a canoeist who went missing in northern Saskatchewan last month has been recovered. The 27-year-old man from Calgary went missing on June 8 while fishing on Smoothstone Lake. His canoe was later found submerged in the middle of the lake. RCMP say...
by MBC News | Jul 3, 2019
Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation Chief Peter Beatty says cooler heads need to prevail in the wake of two videos that were taken of arrests in Pelican Narrows on the weekend. The videos show the same officer in two separate incidents with gun drawn and shouting profanities...
by MBC News | Jul 3, 2019
Several youth from the Black Lake First Nation are cycling 1500 kilometers from their home community in northern Saskatchewan to Lac St. Anne Alberta to raise awareness to suicide prevention. The youth aged 13 to 27 have already completed more than 600 kilometers,...
by MBC News | Jul 3, 2019
An RCMP officer in Pelican Narrows has been removed from the community and reassigned to non-frontline duties after videos of two arrests went viral on social media over the weekend. In both videos, the same officer has their gun drawn and is using profane language...
by MBC News | Jul 2, 2019
Prince Albert Police Chief Jon Bergen says he has a planned meeting with the Women’s Commission of the Prince Albert Grand Council to discuss how the force can improve itself based on the recommendations from the Final Report into the National Inquiry into Missing and...
by MBC News | Jul 2, 2019
The Information and Privacy Commissioner is asking the Resort Village of Candle Lake to redo a search for records that relates to a janitorial contract that one of its Councillors has entered into with the Village. Commissioner Ronald Kruzeniski in his report says the...
by MBC News | Jun 28, 2019
UPDATE – Police say Wolfgang Amadeus Mckenzie turned himself in on Tuesday. McKenzie is scheduled to appear in La Ronge Provincial Court on Wednesday. RCMP have arrested a third person and are looking for a fourth in relation to a shooting incident that took...
by MBC News | Jun 28, 2019
The national Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health (IIPH) at the University of Saskatchewan (USask) has launched a new five-year plan with an investment of approximately $43 million in research. “It’s about the communities setting the research agenda and that...
