by MBC News | Jun 29, 2012 | Current News
RCMP have located the body of a 54-year-old man who drowned on Wekash Lake, 12 km southwest of Creighton Wednesday evening. Police say the man was driving a jet ski with two female passengers when they were thrown from the craft into the water. One women swam to...
by MBC News | Jun 29, 2012 | Current News
Flin Flon RCMP say they have tracked down a man in dire need of immediate medical attention who abruptly left the Flin Flon General Hospital earlier today. Thirty-two-year-old Leon Benjamin Custer of Pelican Narrows had been last seen in a hospital gown at the hundred...
by MBC News | Jun 29, 2012 | Current News
The full extent of the series of storms that struck the province is becoming clearer as SaskPower reports thousands of trees were downed by high winds — many of them in eastern Saskatchewan. Efforts are currently underway trying to get a large number of homes in...
by MBC News | Jun 29, 2012 | Current News
The pilot of a small plane had to do some quick thinking when engine trouble led to an emergency landing in a northern Alberta marsh. The crash happened yesterday afternoon, a few kilometres south of Fort McMurray. R-C-M-P say the pilot and co-pilot were flying from...
by MBC News | Jun 29, 2012 | Current News
Northern Saskatchewan Member of Parliament Rob Clarke is responding to some recent criticism. Earlier this week, Clarke spoke at the FSIN assembly in Nipawin about his private member’s bill to reform the Indian Act. The federation panned the speech, comparing...
by MBC News | Jun 28, 2012 | Current News
SaskPower expects to have power fully restored to all areas of the province by tonight or early tomorrow morning. At last word, about 13,000 customers, mainly in east-central Saskatchewan, are still with out power. SaskPower’s vice president of distribution,...
by MBC News | Jun 28, 2012 | Current News
A candlelight vigil is planned for Monday for an Aboriginal woman who went missing two years ago. Karina Wolfe disappeared on July 2nd, 2010. She was last seen inside a grey corvette on Appleby Drive in Saskatoon. Police say her disappearance is suspicious because she...
by MBC News | Jun 28, 2012 | Current News
A vice-chief with the FSIN has confirmed he is running again in this fall’s election. However, this time, Morley Watson says he has his eye on the top job: “I’ll be running. I’m going to offer my services to the people as chief of the...
by MBC News | Jun 28, 2012 | Current News
Sad news emerged out of this week’s FSIN legislative assembly in Nipawin. Senator Dennis Crane of the Key First Nation died early Wednesday morning. He had attended the opening day of the assembly the previous day. Crane served with the Yorkton Tribal Council...
by MBC News | Jun 28, 2012 | Current News
The FSIN has signed a three-year protocol with the RCMP. The deal is designed to boost trust and cooperation between First Nations communities and the RCMP members that serve them. The federation says it hopes the protocol defuses situations before they turn into...