by MBC News | Jun 19, 2019
There has recently been an increased number of bear sightings reported on the Kahkewistahaw First Nation. Chip Taypotat is responsible for animal control in the community and says he has received more than 20 calls about bear sightings in the past month. “This year...
by MBC News | Jun 19, 2019
The La Ronge Ice Wolves are getting set to host a summer hockey training camp next month. The camp runs from July 22-25 at the JRMCC. Kids from the ages of 5-17 can take part. The camp will not contain an on-ice component. “We are going to work on puck-handling...
by MBC News | Jun 19, 2019
Pinehouse RCMP say an inmate who escaped from the Besnard Lake Correctional Facility earlier this month is back in custody. On June 10, police reported that 30-year-old Randy Timothy Venne left the facility two days earlier. Mounties said that he was considered to be...
by MBC News | Jun 18, 2019
The Saskatoon Police Service is investigating after a member of the Meadow Lake RCMP detachment fired a semi-automatic rifle at a pair of suspects. The incident started around 2:45 Sunday morning when Mounties were searching for suspects believed to have been involved...
by MBC News | Jun 18, 2019
An RCMP officer has been arrested and charged with assault after a complaint received in the community of Wollaston Lake. Mounties say the incident happened at a home in the community on the evening of May 20th. Corporal Luay Toma was off-duty at the time. He was...
by MBC News | Jun 17, 2019
A former head of the Canadian Jewish Congress says the violence experienced by Indigenous women fully meets the definition of genocide as set out by the United Nations. The word has generated controversy in recent weeks after it appeared in the final report of the...
by MBC News | Jun 17, 2019
The chief commissioner of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls says Canadians have to come to come to terms with the reality of what has happened to Aboriginal women before we can move on meaningful change. Marion Buller says this...
by MBC News | Jun 14, 2019
The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) says the northwest part of the province has recently seen a growing number of HIV and syphilis cases. An HIV outbreak has been declared in North Battleford and a syphilis outbreak has been declared in the Lloydminster and...
by MBC News | Jun 14, 2019
The Trudeau government’s Indigenous child and family services act passed third and final reading in the Senate on Friday Bill C-92 gives First Nations more control over child welfare services that affect their communities. The bill was introduced by the federal...
by MBC News | Jun 14, 2019
The provincial government and a University of Regina researcher are headed to court over documents related to Husky Energy’s 2016 oil spill in the North Saskatchewan River. Patricia Elliott has made freedom of information requests to the government for documentation...
