by MBC News | Jul 11, 2012 | Current News
Conditions are ripe for forest fires in the province. About 35 are burning right now, and 20 of them have started in the last day or so. The weather is not helping matters. The current heat wave is drying things out and lightning strikes are igniting new fires daily....
by MBC News | Jul 11, 2012 | Current News
Saskatchewan continues to bake in a heat wave. Yesterday was another record-setting day in the province, with 16 communities setting previously unreached highs for yesterday’s date. Many records fell in the province’s north. La Ronge reached 33.2 degrees...
by MBC News | Jul 11, 2012 | Current News
Canada’s new mortgage rules are drawing fire from an Aboriginal group. The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples says it is concerned that many low- and middle-income Canadians will never be able to own a home due to the measures that were announced this week. Ottawa...
by MBC News | Jul 10, 2012 | Current News
Police have tracked down an escaped inmate in Prince Albert. Thirty-nine-year-old Terrance Yew was arrested today in a neighborhood on the north bank of the North Saskatchewan River. Yew had escaped from the Riverbend Institution days earlier. Sgt. Kelly McLean says...
by MBC News | Jul 10, 2012 | Current News
Transwest Air has announced the loss of one of its managing partners, Jim Glass. Company officials say the 50-year-old died early this morning. Glass was one of the founding partners when Athabasca Airways and La Ronge Aviation/Air Sask Aviation merged in 2000. He was...
by MBC News | Jul 10, 2012 | Current News
A memorandum of understanding was signed today in Prince Albert National Park between the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations and Canada World Youth. The MOU essentially outlines a plan by the two sides to work closer together and develop outreach opportunities...
by MBC News | Jul 10, 2012 | Current News
Charges have been laid against a 25-year-old La Ronge man after an armed standoff over the weekend. On Saturday evening, officers were called out to the Fairchild Reserve to investigate a report of a man with a gun. It was reported he had pointed the weapon at another...
by MBC News | Jul 9, 2012 | Current News
RCMP say the child who was run over by a parade float in Preeceville over the weekend had just celebrated his eighth birthday. The boy was from Prince Albert and was riding on a float that was being pulled by a half-ton truck. He jumped off the front of the float,...
by MBC News | Jul 9, 2012 | Current News
The Vice-Chief of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples will be touring western Canada. Dwight Dorey’s tour kicks off in Winnipeg Tuesday. He skips Saskatchewan altogether — going on to Edmonton, Yellowknife, Calgary and Vancouver. Dorey says that...
by MBC News | Jul 9, 2012 | Current News
A former chief says he is tired of seeing energy companies reaping all the benefits from First Nations land. George Stanley is one of eight people running to be national chief of the Assembly of First Nations. The Frog Lake, Alberta resident says pipeline development...
