by MBC News | Aug 24, 2012 | Current News
A party to celebrate the first-ever harvest from the Allen Sapp Gallery Healing Garden in North Battleford will be held tonight. It will take place behind the Allen Sapp Gallery from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Healing garden co-ordinator Kjelti Anderson says they will be...
by MBC News | Aug 24, 2012 | Current News
The community of Stanley Mission is in mourning after a man died there on Wednesday. Details are sketchy at this point, but sources in the community say it was an adult male who was found floating in the bay. The body of the man is now in Saskatoon at the...
by MBC News | Aug 23, 2012 | Current News
A trial has been ordered for a Sturgeon Lake First Nation man charged with manslaughter. Dexter Ermine is accused of causing the death of 21-year-old Dereck Morin. The Saskatoon man was found deceased on a road on the Sturgeon Lake reserve last August. Ermine, who was...
by MBC News | Aug 23, 2012 | Current News
There has been another fatal crash on Highway 905 in Saskatchewan’s far north. Less than a week after a collision claimed the life of a 72-year-old woman on that highway north of Southend, two more people have died as the result of a crash last night. RCMP say...
by MBC News | Aug 23, 2012 | Current News
A Regina woman facing manslaughter charges in the death of a four-year-old girl was granted bail today. Justice Murray Hinds says while the charge is extremely serious, there was no compelling reason to keep 35-year-old Tammy Lynn Goforth in custody. The biological...
by MBC News | Aug 23, 2012 | Current News
The mother of a bear spray attack and beating victim is speaking out after two youths were sentenced for the crime. On Tuesday in North Battleford Provincial Court, a 17-year-old male was sentenced to 14 months closed custody, plus seven months under community...
by MBC News | Aug 23, 2012 | Current News
The public is being asked to help the family of 15-year-old Abigail Ledoux track her down. Abigail went missing at the Beardy’s Okemasis First Nation pow wow last night and didn’t return home. She is 5’5″ tall, weighs 105 lbs., was wearing a...
by MBC News | Aug 23, 2012 | Current News
An American has been fined $8,400 for illegal outfitting in the Nipawin area. Officials with Saskatchewan Environment say conservation officers received a complaint in 2009 about an illegal operation. Investigators say a man from South Dakota was guiding residents on...
by MBC News | Aug 23, 2012 | Current News
A blending of First Nations healing and western medicine is on the wish list of an official with the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations. Last December, the federation put a proposal into the Ministry of Health for a cultural responsiveness framework. The idea...
by MBC News | Aug 23, 2012 | Current News
The All Nations/Hope AIDS Network is encouraging young people to think twice before they go out and get a body piercing or tattoo.The group’s director, Leona Quewezance, says the risk of contracting HIV/AIDS or hepatitis C is greatly increased when people get...
