by MBC News | Dec 5, 2018
For over a decade, the Morningstar Christmas Faire in La Ronge has been fundraising for the Piwapan Women’s Centre. Most years, the money goes towards school supplies or toys for the playroom at the centre. This year, however, donations are going towards a $15,000 new...
by MBC News | Dec 5, 2018
The officer who shot and killed 22-year-old Brydon Whitstone a little over a year ago will testify at a corner’s inquest into his death on Wednesday. The inquest is hearing from the various RCMP officers Wednesday morning who were on the scene on Oct. 21 after...
by MBC News | Dec 4, 2018
For the 14th straight time, the La Ronge Ice Wolves failed to win a hockey game — this time it was a 4-2 setback on home ice Tuesday to the Kindersley Klippers. “Probably tonight was the fastest we’ve played all year up and down the ice — both ways,” said Ice...
by MBC News | Dec 4, 2018
A coroner’s inquest heard Tuesday afternoon from a woman who was with Brydon Whitstone moments before he died in October 2017. The inquest heard Amanda Wahobin and Whitstone were intimately involved and had plans of going to a wedding that evening on the night...
by MBC News | Dec 4, 2018
Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde is continuing to call on the Liberal government to pass the Indigenous Languages Act. Bellegarde gave the opening address at the Assembly of First Nations’ Special Chiefs Assembly this morning in Ottawa and...
by MBC News | Dec 4, 2018
The New Democrats are questioning why the provincial government has appointed a man to the Board of Northlands College who has several assaults and uttering threats convictions and who was sentenced last month for domestic assault. On November first, Vince Natomagan,...
by MBC News | Dec 4, 2018
A corner’s inquest into the death of a 22-year-old Indigenous man heard Tuesday morning about the high speed car chase he was in with police minutes before he was fatally shot in October 2017. The short pursuit took place in North Battleford. Corporal Robert...
by MBC News | Dec 4, 2018
Residents of Pelican Narrows are calling on the provincial government to make dire upgrades to that community’s airstrip. A petition tabled in the Legislative Assembly Monday by Cumberland MLA Doyle Vermette states “that the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan call...
by MBC News | Dec 4, 2018
Questions still remain as to why an RCMP officer felt he had no choice but to shoot and kill Brydon Whitstone following a vehicle chase in North Battleford in October 2017. A corner’s inquest into the 22-year-old man from Onion Lake Cree Nation’s death...
by MBC News | Dec 3, 2018
Gary Tinker of Pinehouse has been left stranded for years. Tinker advocates for people with disabilities in the north, including himself as he has cerebral palsy. He relied on Saskatchewan Transportation Company (STC) to get around, but they seized operations in 2017,...
