by MBC News | Mar 23, 2017
Homicide victim Damian Ballantyne. Photo courtesy Facebook. Prince Albert police are revealing the identity of a man killed in the city in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Damian Ballantyne, 34, was the victim of the city’s first murder of 2017. He was already...
by MBC News | Mar 23, 2017
AFN National Chief Perry Bellegarde pictured on March 16. Photo courtesy @perrybellegarde, Twitter. The Assembly of First Nations has an overall positive impression of the federal budget that was unveiled on Wednesday, and its leader is not surprised by some new...
by MBC News | Mar 23, 2017
Wapiti Valley, Saskatchewan. Photo courtesy of Enns Kivin, Facebook. A report into last summer’s Husky oil spill into the North Saskatchewan River reveals the pipeline’s dual alarm leak detection systems were issuing notices of problems prior to the spill, and...
by MBC News | Mar 23, 2017
Austin Bear receives congratulations on election night at Muskoday. Photo courtesy of Dean Bear. Austin Bear has once again been re-elected as chief of the Muskoday First Nation. He beat out Sandy LeBeouf 317 votes to 170. It is the fourteenth straight election Bear...
by MBC News | Mar 22, 2017
Finance Minister Bill Morneau pictured with guests on budget day. Photo courtesy @Bill_Morneau, Twitter. On Wednesday, federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau delivered a budget that focused on “building a strong middle class.” Here are some highlights from the budget...
by MBC News | Mar 22, 2017
Photos courtesy Saskatchewan Transportation Company, Facebook. On Wednesday, provincial Finance Minister Kevin Doherty announced the Saskatchewan Transportation Company has a two-month lifespan before the province closes it down altogether. “The decision to wind down...
by MBC News | Mar 22, 2017
Sask. Finance Minister Kevin Doherty. Photo courtesy of Manfred Joehnck. The Saskatchewan budget contains nearly a billion dollars in new taxes, impacting nearly everyone in the province. The biggest hit will be an increase in the provincial sales tax from five to six...
by MBC News | Mar 22, 2017
One of the activities at the workshop held at the Prince Albert Inn on Tuesday. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski. A number of workshops across the province are asking uncomfortable questions, all in the name of reconciliation. They’re asking things like “was the...
by MBC News | Mar 22, 2017
The crime scene of the 300-block Ninth Street East murder. Photo by Dean Bear. Prince Albert Police have two suspects in custody in relation to the city’s first homicide of the year. Officers were called to a home in the city’s midtown area at 1:22 Wednesday morning...
by MBC News | Mar 22, 2017
Marlene Bird and her partner Patrick Lavallee outside court on March 15. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski. Much of Canada is already familiar with the severity of Marlene Bird’s immediate injuries from the 2014 attack on her life in Prince Albert, but the photographic...
