by MBC News | Apr 19, 2017
Jennifer Reid with the Population Health Unit presents on dog bites in northern Saskatchewan on April 19. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski. Reported dog bites in northern Saskatchewan were up nearly a third between 2014 and 2015. Those startling off-reserve statistics from...
by MBC News | Apr 19, 2017
Photo courtesy of policecanada.ca A man from Kamsack has been fined $1,200 after being found guilty of two illegal hunting charges. The incident, southwest of the town of Pelly, was reported to the Turn In Poachers line in October 2015. Conservation officers say...
by MBC News | Apr 19, 2017
Health Minister Jane Philpott with Ahtahkakoop Chief Larry Ahenakew. Photo by Rory McLean of the FSIN. Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott says she is impressed with how the Ahtahkakoop and Big River First Nations have addressed the HIV epidemic in their...
by MBC News | Apr 18, 2017
La Ronge Mayor Ron Woytowich at the Tuesday gathering. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski. In light of a La Ronge robbery that turned fatal on the weekend, northern crime was on the minds of many at the New North annual mayor and council spring gathering. RCMP Commanding...
by MBC News | Apr 18, 2017
A makeshift memorial for Simon Grant. Photo courtesy of Facebook. A makeshift memorial has been set up outside Louisiana’s Bar-B-Que in La Ronge in memory of its owner, 64-year-old Simon Grant. He died in hospital yesterday as a result of a severe beating he suffered...
by MBC News | Apr 18, 2017
Victim Jared Bear. Photo courtesy Facebook. A surprise plea was entered this week for impaired driving that killed an 11-year-old boy on Muskoday in 2014. Monday morning was supposed to be the outset of Gordon Morris Crain’s trial, but instead he entered a plea...
by MBC News | Apr 18, 2017
Photo courtesy of shop.flagshop.com A new patient-oriented research centre will be opening in Saskatchewan. The provincial and federal health ministers announced 63 million dollars in funding for the new venture this morning. The Saskatchewan Centre for...
by MBC News | Apr 18, 2017
George Gordon First Nation. Photo courtesy of Manfred Joehnck. Indigenous Affairs Canada is maintaining a hands-off approach in the George Gordon First Nation election dispute. Earlier this month, the Court of Appeal ordered a new election for chief, upholding a lower...
by MBC News | Apr 18, 2017
Simon Grant. Photo courtesy of Facebook. La Ronge RCMP are looking to the public for information on the death of a business owner following a robbery. The incident at Louisiana’s BBQ Restaurant happened shortly before 11 p.m. on Saturday. Police say masked men...
by MBC News | Apr 17, 2017
A public inquest into a death at the Pine Grove Correctional Centre in Prince Albert will be held May 1-5. On December 27th, 2015, 27-year-old Shauna Wolf was found unresponsive in a cell at the facility. She was taken to Victoria Hospital and later pronounced dead....
