by MBC News | Feb 7, 2013 | Current News
A woman accused of fatally stabbing a man in Grandmother’s Bay has been granted bail. Mary Roberts is due back in a La Ronge court on Mar. 4. She faces one count of second-degree murder. Last November the body of 37-year-old Adam Eninew was discovered outside a...
by MBC News | Feb 7, 2013 | Current News
It looks like municipalities hoping for either a new infrastructure or revenue sharing program will have to wait until the provincial budget. With the Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association convention wrapping up in Saskatoon today, the government remains...
by MBC News | Feb 7, 2013 | Current News
The Prince Albert police service is reporting a large drop in crime statistics. According to numbers supplied by the department, officers responded to 1,071 fewer complaints in 2012 than the year before. Crimes against people were also down 32 per cent. Police chief...
by MBC News | Feb 7, 2013 | Current News
The temporary homeless shelter in North Battleford will close by the end of the week if funding fails to come through. This is the warning from Battlefords Indian and Métis Friendship Centre Executive Director Janice Kennedy. Kennedy says the organization has run out...
by MBC News | Feb 6, 2013 | Current News
A 23 year-old man was sentenced to life in prison yesterday for killing another man he described as his best friend, and “like family”, on the Far Reserve in 2011. Jimmy Ross gave a rambling apology to the family of Jason Charles at Court of Queen’s Bench in...
by MBC News | Feb 5, 2013 | Current News
A First Nations man has been sentenced to 11 years in prison after a drug deal apparently went wrong and resulted in the stabbing death of another man last summer. Last November, Arnold Isiah Halkett, a member of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band, pleaded guilty to the...
by MBC News | Feb 5, 2013 | Current News
It appears youth in Northern Saskatchewan may be more likely to vote provincially and federally if they could see some tangible benefits. Professor Bonita Beatty of the University of Saskatchewan helped conduct a survey that looked at voter trends in the north. She...
by MBC News | Feb 5, 2013 | Current News
A 31-year-old man who escaped from a minimum security institution last week has been arrested in Saskatoon. Royce Virgil Bear was one of two men who escaped from the Willow Cree Healing Lodge in Duck Lake on Jan. 27. About 3:30 p.m. yesterday police located Bear in...
by MBC News | Feb 5, 2013 | Current News
A researcher for an aboriginal think-tank says it’s an exciting time for he and his colleagues. Dr. Ryan Walker is the director of the Urban Aboriginal Knowledge Network’s prairie centre. He says today’s launch of the organization’s new website is just one of the many...
by MBC News | Feb 5, 2013 | Current News
The CEO of the Hatchet Lake First Nation says she’s hoping an ice-road to the community could be open within the next few days. Ann Robillard says it couldn’t come at a better time as supplies are starting to run low. She adds construction of the road-link began three...
