by MBC News | Mar 1, 2016
An organization which offers services to homeless people in La Ronge is again looking for funding to keep it’s operations going. Since November the Scattered Sites Outreach Program has been opening at night, seven days a week, providing beds and meals. Funding...
by MBC News | Feb 29, 2016
Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde says it is absolutely vital to include indigenous people in any discussion on climate change. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is scheduled to meet with the nation’s premiers later this week, but will first...
by MBC News | Feb 29, 2016
Tracy Nicole Bird. Photo courtesy Facebook A 36-year-old woman who faced countless struggles throughout her life was found dead in La Ronge on Saturday morning. The RCMP believe Tracy Nicole Bird’s death was not suspicious in nature. She was found in a wooded...
by MBC News | Feb 29, 2016
A man accused of trying to kill a Weyakwin woman was visibly limping in Prince Albert court on Monday morning. Matthew Warren Lavallee, 26, was in court for the first time on the charges of aggravated assault and attempted murder. The charges stem from an incident...
by MBC News | Feb 29, 2016
A Prince Albert teen boy accused of trying to kill one of his peers is out of jail for the first time in months. The 17-year-old boy accused of attempted murder in a late December shooting can’t be named because of his age. Police say he had a gun on him when...
by MBC News | Feb 29, 2016
Donny Parenteau is well-known for his way with the fiddle, but this year he’s trying his hand at another venture. The famous fiddler and country artist has announced his intentions to run for Prince Albert city council. Parenteau says he wants to help his home...
by MBC News | Feb 29, 2016
A Pahkisimon Nuye-ah Library event in Buffalo Narrows in 2015. Photo courtesy Facebook. Buffalo Narrows has been named this year’s winner of the 25th annual “Readingest Community in Northern Saskatchewan.” The Pahkisimon Nuye-ah Library System in Air Ronge holds...
by MBC News | Feb 29, 2016
There will be cheaper cable TV packages available across Canada on Tuesday, but residents in La Ronge and other areas will have to wait a little longer before they can opt in for the so-called “skinny cable” services. The new rules are regulated and mandated by the...
by MBC News | Feb 29, 2016
Dr. James Irvine. Right now, about 25 to 30 lab tests per week are coming back positive for influenza in Northern Saskatchewan. This flu season, which comes a few weeks later than the flu season in southern Saskatchewan, is putting pressure on health centres,...
by MBC News | Feb 26, 2016
This week, an aboriginal storytelling festival in Regina is forcing people to stop to think, and one of the most controversial exhibits is by an Ontario artist. Tracey-Mae Chambers has taken more than 1,800 photos that resemble crime scenes that people are just...
