by MBC News | Aug 21, 2012
The baby of a Poundmaker First Nation woman was born on the way to hospital in the Battlefords over the weekend. WPD Ambulance operations manager Jason Toovey says it all began at about 5:05 a.m Sunday. They got a call from the Cut Knife Ambulance asking them to take...
by MBC News | Aug 21, 2012
Inmates at the Prince Albert Correctional Centre have ended their hunger strike. Last week a handful of prisoners quit accepting food after they were confined to their cells for 23 hours a day. The jail defended the move — saying the clampdown was necessary so...
by MBC News | Aug 21, 2012
An evacuation at the James Smith Cree Nation is now over. Nursing manager Rey Lindain reports that all 201 evacuees have since returned to their homes. He explains flood waters have gone down enough for people to get through the major roadways: “There’s...
by MBC News | Aug 20, 2012
A 72-year-old woman was killed in a two-vehicle collision in northern Saskatchewan over the weekend. She was the driver and lone occupant of a car involved in a crash with a pickup truck on Highway 905, about 95 km north of Southend. A 27-year-old man was driving the...
by MBC News | Aug 20, 2012
Alcohol is believed to have been a factor in a deadly rollover on the Sakimay First Nation. The accident happened Saturday afternoon. There were three people in the vehicle, all from the Broadview area. The 57-year-old man driving the car was thrown from the vehicle...
by MBC News | Aug 20, 2012
An odd death is being probed on the Onion Lake Cree Nation. Over the weekend, RCMP were called to the band’s horse-racing track to investigate a report of an erratic driver. When they got to the scene, they found a vehicle on the track with a deceased male...
by MBC News | Aug 20, 2012
It started as an armed robbery in Meadow Lake — and it ended with the suspect shooting at RCMP then taking his own life. The 37-year-old man, armed with a .22-caliber rifle, held up a gas station at about 2:00 Saturday afternoon. RCMP tracked him down a couple...
by MBC News | Aug 20, 2012
A man was arrested over the weekend after a stabbing and subsequent standoff on the Sturgeon Lake First Nation. Police surrounded a home early Saturday morning. A 20-year-old suspect was inside the residence, but eventually surrendered peacefully. He faces charges of...
by MBC News | Aug 20, 2012
A crash between a deer and a vehicle near the Muskoday First Nation sent one woman to hospital. The collision occurred just after 9:00 last night on Highway 3 near the Muskoday bridge. Lyle Karasiuk of Parkland Ambulance says, fortunately, the female driver was...
by MBC News | Aug 20, 2012
A long-time chief in northwest Saskatchewan has stepped down from his post. After 19 years of service, Roy Cheecham says he has enjoyed his time in office as leader of the Clearwater River Dene Nation, but he has decided to move onto different things. His resignation...
