by MBC News | Jul 10, 2017
George Gordon First Nation. Photo courtesy of Manfred Joehnck. A date has finally been set for a by-election to fill the much contested position of chief on the George Gordon First Nation, which is located northeast of Regina. The election has been the subject of...
by MBC News | Jul 7, 2017
Photo of North Saskatchewan River. Photo courtesy of Jet Propulsion Laboratories and NASA. Saskatchewan has been chosen by NASA as a testing ground for new technology on mapping water in northern environments. NASA will use experimental radar to chart the water levels...
by MBC News | Jul 7, 2017
Ashley Petit. Photo courtesy of Facebook. There will be a bittersweet reunion in North Battleford this weekend, 20 years in the making. On July 5, 1997, a small boat capsized on Canoe Lake during heavy waves. All five occupants ended up in the water, but only one...
by MBC News | Jul 7, 2017
Photo courtesy of shop.flagshop.com There has been a slight drop in Saskatchewan’s employment numbers. There are 1,900 fewer people employed in the province last month compared to May. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 6.5 per cent, an increase of two...
by MBC News | Jul 6, 2017
Plains bison photo courtesy of Wikipedia. The Mistawasis First Nation is working on a project to renew the connection it once had with the buffalo. The Nation to Nation Buffalo Treaty Project is looking to strengthen support to maintain healthy bison populations and...
by MBC News | Jul 6, 2017
Catherine McKay. Photo courtesy Facebook. Saskatchewan Government Insurance has filed a statement of claim in Saskatoon Court of Queen’s Bench against two Saskatoon liquor establishments that served Catherine McKay Jan. 2-3, 2016. Information relayed in McKay’s...
by MBC News | Jul 6, 2017
File photo RCMP say two men from the La Loche area are presumed to have drowned in a northern Saskatchewan lake. The two unidentified boaters were reported overdue to the La Loche RCMP detachment at around 3 p.m. yesterday. An hour later, civilian searchers located...
by MBC News | Jul 6, 2017
File photo Three people are facing kidnapping and other charges after an alleged incident last month. Regina Police say on Saturday, June 24 at approximately 2:30 a.m., a male was kidnapped from a location in Regina. After being robbed of his personal items, he was...
by MBC News | Jul 6, 2017
Photo courtesy of keyband.com The losers in last fall’s election of the Key First Nation, about 100 kilometres north of Yorkton, want the election results tossed out and a new vote held. They have been trying to make that happen for the last nine months. The...
by MBC News | Jul 6, 2017
Image courtesy of Saskatchewan Indian Cultural Centre A former chief of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations, the forerunner to the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, is among this year’s recipients of the Saskatchewan Order of Merit. Roland Crowe...
