by MBC News | Jul 9, 2013
Extra firefighting crews and equipment have been kept busy fighting forest fires in the province’s north. A group of CL-215 water bombers was recently deployed to Stony Rapids along with the extra personnel and fire fighting helicopters. Provincial Fire Control...
by MBC News | Jul 8, 2013
A Vancouver company has pleaded guilty to violating provincial occupational health and safety regulations resulting in the death of worker in northern Saskatchewan two years ago. An employee of the J.D. Drilling Company Ltd. was killed on Feb. 21, 2011, when the...
by MBC News | Jul 8, 2013
Aboriginal students struggling to complete their education at Parkland Regional College in Yorkton are being given a hand through a new partnership between the college, the Yorkton Tribal Council and the provincial government. Over the next five years, $300,000...
by MBC News | Jul 8, 2013
A lawyer for the Métis National Council has confirmed the organization will take an Alberta hunting rights case to the Supreme Court of Canada. Jason Madden says the case touches on Métis harvesting rights across the Prairies. He says the case, which revolves around a...
by MBC News | Jul 5, 2013
Liberal leader Justin Trudeau received a warm welcome at the North Central Family Centre in Regina on Friday. Dressed in jeans, a white golf shirt and sandals, Trudeau mingled easily with the crowd. His message was one of hope for Canada’s Aboriginal people. The...
by MBC News | Jul 5, 2013
It’s been exactly nine years since anyone last saw Tamra Keepness. The five-year-old Aboriginal girl was last seen in her home on the 1800 block of Ottawa Street around 11 p.m. on July 5, 2004. Despite the length of time that has passed and the many leads that have...
by MBC News | Jul 5, 2013
An escaped prisoner has been arrested in La Ronge. Twenty-year-old Doris Roberts scaled the fence of the Pine Grove Correctional Centre on Friday. Authorities say she apparently used clothing to get over the razor wire fence. A spokeswoman with the government says the...
by MBC News | Jul 5, 2013
The Métis Nation of Alberta says it will take a high-profile hunting rights case in the province to the Supreme Court of Canada. Yesterday, a court of appeal upheld the conviction of a Métis hunter who shot a mule deer in 2007. The hunter was participating in a...
by MBC News | Jul 5, 2013
A group of students from Norway were in La Ronge on Thursday as part of a weeklong visit to Canada to discuss northern issues. The exchange program is organized by the International Centre for Northern Governance and Development at the University of Saskatchewan....
by MBC News | Jul 5, 2013
The executive director of wildfire management for the province says a new camera system to monitor forest fires gives the province more potential to expand coverage without putting workers at risk. Conversion of the observation towers is now underway. It will take a...
