by MBC News | Sep 30, 2016
Minister Wilson-Raybould, Chief Teddy Clark, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Mayor Kevin Janvier, and Minister Ralph Goodale in La Loche on Jan. 29, 2016. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski Northern Saskatchewan’s federal representative has written an open letter to...
by MBC News | Sep 30, 2016
NORTEP library. Photo courtesy NORTEP/NORPAC group on Facebook, photo by Dale Apesis. The province’s advanced education critic is calling into question the government’s decision to cut funds to the NORTEP-NORPAC program even with knowledge of the...
by MBC News | Sep 30, 2016
School children all over the province are wearing orange t-shirts on Friday to recognize and honour all the aboriginal children who were taken from their homes and forced into residential schools. It is the first “Orange Shirt Day” ever held in Saskatchewan. It all...
by MBC News | Sep 30, 2016
Community members on the Sucker River reserve, stakeholders from the Lac La Ronge Indian Band and the federal government are celebrating the grand-opening of a new bridge in Sucker River. The bridge in the community had been closed to vehicle traffic 14 years ago...
by MBC News | Sep 29, 2016
Whitesand Dam. Photo courtesy reindeerlake.com The Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation has suffered a legal setback in its fight for compensation for lands that flooded decades ago. The band was suing Ottawa, the province, SaskPower, Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting and the...
by MBC News | Sep 29, 2016
RCMP are providing more details on an abduction and brief Amber Alert in La Ronge late Wednesday night. Mounties say they received a complaint shortly before 8:00pm that two young boys were taken by an adult man in a silver van. The man has been identified as 18...
by MBC News | Sep 29, 2016
This row of apartment contains the suite Alpheus Burns was killed in. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski The picture of the events leading up to, during, and after the killing of 70-year-old Alpheus Burns are starting to come clear at the jury trial for his accused...
by MBC News | Sep 29, 2016
Dr. Janet Hux, Photo by Manfred Joehnck. The chief science officer for the Canadian Diabetes Association says loss of culture, poverty and lifestyle have all contributed to rampant diabetes rates in the First Nations community. Dr. Janet Hux says it is time to end the...
by MBC News | Sep 29, 2016
Two young boys who were the subject of a brief Amber Alert overnight have been found safe. La Ronge RCMP issued the alert shortly after midnight. It was believed a ten-year-old boy and an eight-year-old had been taken away by an 18-year-old man. The vehicle involved...
by MBC News | Sep 29, 2016
Michael Montgrand has longer hair currently than he does in this photo, which is outdated according to the RCMP. Photo courtesy Buffalo Narrows RCMP *UPDATE – RCMP say Michael Montgrand was apprehended at 9:35 p.m. Wednesday night. Mounties say a male...
