by MBC News | Dec 13, 2016
Ramsey Whitehead. Photo courtesy Harvey Fourfeathers. The accused in a Red Earth Cree Nation first-degree murder case was present in court on Tuesday, as was the family of the victim. Davis Whitehead, 25, stood in the Melfort Provincial Court prisoner’s box to...
by MBC News | Dec 13, 2016
Trent Wotherspoon. Photo courtesy of Manfred Joehnck. Saskatchewan’s NDP leader says the provincial government could have, and should have, done more to end the economic disparity facing the province’s growing Aboriginal population. In a year-end interview with MBC...
by MBC News | Dec 13, 2016
Photo courtesy of graduateinstitute.ch There were no serious injuries reported after a fire destroyed a home this morning on the Buffalo River Dene Nation. The blaze was first spotted around 2:00 am. Witnesses at the scene say it apparently started in a wood stove on...
by MBC News | Dec 13, 2016
Larissa Ledoux looks on as her uncle Joseph and father Gordon embrace for the first time. Photo courtesy Larissa Ledoux. NOTE: A video of half-brothers Joseph and Gordon Ledoux meeting for the first time in 70 years can be viewed here. Video courtesy Larissa Ledoux....
by MBC News | Dec 12, 2016
FSIN Chief Bobby Cameron and PBCN Chief Peter Beatty with some of the meat donations. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski. Food bank and shelter clients all over Saskatchewan will have access to traditional meats this winter due to the efforts of well over 100 First Nations...
by MBC News | Dec 12, 2016
Spring NAFA Auction. Photo courtesy of furtraders.ca The price for fur in Saskatchewan is down anywhere from 27 per cent to 89 per cent since 2013, but the number of people getting fur licenses nearly doubled over the same period. The province’s fur administrator says...
by MBC News | Dec 12, 2016
File photo. Charges of first-degree murder and aggravated assault have been laid following the death of a man on the Red Earth First Nation. On Saturday afternoon, police were called to a home on the reserve, where they found an injured person. RCMP say 29-year-old...
by MBC News | Dec 9, 2016
Lawyers have made their sentencing requests for a James Smith Cree Nation woman who was convicted of manslaughter in October. Candace Moostoos was originally charged with murder in 70-year-old Alpheus Burns’ death in May of 2015, after she turned herself in. At...
by MBC News | Dec 9, 2016
MCpl. Clayton Matchee in the early 90s. Photo courtesy flyingdust.net A Flying Dust First Nation man has been named in an Ontario military mom’s plea for the federal government to end its “culture of denial” towards the psychiatric effects of a drug...
by MBC News | Dec 9, 2016
File photo. A man from Island Lake First Nation is facing a dozen new charges after trying to escape from police in Cold Lake, Alberta. On Wednesday afternoon, RCMP received a call about a stolen vehicle located in a grocery store parking lot. The driver tried to get...
