by MBC News | May 3, 2017
John Lagimodiere, Publisher of Eagle Feather News. Photo courtesy of eaglefeathernews.com The publisher of Eagle Feather News has seen it all. Years of political infighting, overturned election results, the loss of federal funding and an ongoing power struggle between...
by MBC News | May 3, 2017
Highway 26 near Loon Lake. Photo courtesy of the CAA. Highway 155 to La Loche has been named the worst road in the province in the CAA’s annual Worst Road Campaign. Nearly 6,500 votes were cast during the four week contest that lists the 10 worst roads in the...
by MBC News | May 2, 2017
Winning tre card lucky hand. Image courtesy depositphotos.com One lucky patron took home the Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority (SIGA)’s Tre’ Card Stud Progressive Jackpot prize of $383,312.60 – the largest ever awarded by a SIGA casino. The jackpot went at Dakota...
by MBC News | May 2, 2017
The special election notice. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski. A special election has been called for Lac La Ronge Indian Band’s two Little Red River Reserve councillor positions “due to irregularities at the polling stations,” according to the Chief Electoral Officer....
by MBC News | May 2, 2017
Photo courtesy of imii.ca/et/ Saskatchewan’s big mining companies are looking at innovative ways to create new opportunities for Indigenous people and to increase the number of women working key roles in the minerals sector. It is putting up a million dollars and...
by MBC News | May 2, 2017
FSIN Chief Bobby Cameron file photo The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations says that two days of public consultations on the provincial pasture program are not enough for it to be meaningful consultation with First Nations. Chief Bobby Cameron was reacting...
by MBC News | May 2, 2017
Northern Village of Buffalo Narrows. Photo courtesy of kayas.ca RCMP in Buffalo Narrows and surrounding communities are looking to the public for information on illegal drug dealing. The request follows an arrest on Friday which lead to the seizure of drugs. Police...
by MBC News | May 1, 2017
Shauna Wolf. Photo courtesy Facebook. The events of Shauna Wolf’s last day alive are coming clearer at the coroner’s inquest into her death as an inmate at Pine Grove Correctional Centre. Wolf was 27 years old, and according to her family was possibly...
by MBC News | May 1, 2017
AFN Chief Perry Bellegarde. File photo. Assembly of First Nations Chief Perry Bellegarde is encouraged that Canada will now be supporting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The federal government removed its objector status to the UN...
by MBC News | May 1, 2017
Photo courtesy of Manfred Joehnck There are more than a hundred heartbreaking stories of loved ones gone missing in Saskatchewan, with a disproportionate number of them being Aboriginal. Today, Colleen Whitedeer of Prince Albert shared her story during a ceremony in...
