by MBC News | Aug 17, 2018
In spite of losing one of its members to suicide a week before competition, the Fond du Lac Fire Department pulled together, prevailed and won a national competition last weekend. The six-member team placed first at the 2018 Aboriginal Firefighters Association of...
by MBC News | Aug 17, 2018
The RCMP has decided to attempt a dive to reach a plane which went down in Peter Pond Lake in 1959. The wreckage was discovered on July 31 using sonar but the Mounties originally said a dive in the deep water would be too risky. Corporal Rob King says the RCMP would...
by MBC News | Aug 17, 2018
The Muskowekan First Nation and Encanto Potash say they have hired a consulting, design and construction services company to prepare two environmental studies as part of a new potash mine in the province. Golder Associates will conduct a water study to determine the...
by MBC News | Aug 16, 2018
A La Loche man is facing a number of drug-related charges after a traffic stop in the early morning hours on Wednesday. The traffic stop happened around 1:30 a.m. and police seized a quantity of drugs, drug paraphernalia and cash. Forty-one-year-old Burton Lori Herman...
by MBC News | Aug 16, 2018
First Nations youth are learning about culture and tradition at a gathering put on by the Prince Albert Grand Council this week. The gathering is based on recommendation 66 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that says youth should be part of the reconciliation...
by MBC News | Aug 16, 2018
As the federal government explores a new holiday to acknowledge the dark history of the residential school system, a bank holiday in the province may not be automatic. Premier Scott Moe says his government will have discussions on Ottawa’s move, wanting to take into...
by MBC News | Aug 15, 2018
The man who was the subject of a Prince Albert Amber Alert last summer after he kidnapped and sexually assaulted an eight-year-old girl has been sentenced to eight years in a federal prison. Twenty-year-old Jared John Charles was sentenced at Prince Albert Provincial...
by MBC News | Aug 15, 2018
Beauval and Prince Albert will see a fraction of new child care spaces announced today by the province. Beauval will get nine and Prince Albert will get five. Regina will get 35, while Saskatoon is getting the bulk of the new spaces released Wednesday. “We are very...
by MBC News | Aug 14, 2018
La Ronge and the surrounding communities are getting two more doctors to meet the medical demands. A recent review has determined that the area’s full-time physicians should go from 11 to 13. A search is already underway to fill the positions, which is expected to...
by MBC News | Aug 14, 2018
For years, people every day drove past a field on a gravel road outside of Regina, not knowing its dark history. On the other side of the right ditch about 1500 meters on Pinkie Road just before the railroad tracks lies a white fence with flowers attached to it. It’s...
