by MBC News | Oct 11, 2013 | Current News
Residents of the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation now have some more housing options open to them. A sod-turning ceremony is being held in nearby Blaine Lake this morning for the pending construction of five homes. The rental units will offer families a safe, affordable spot...
by MBC News | Oct 11, 2013 | Current News
An inquest has been called into the death of a teenager from the Mistawasis First Nation. Nineteen-year-old Brandon Daniels died in a Saskatoon jail cell in the summer of 2010. He was picked up by officers on suspicion he was intoxicated, but his mother said he had a...
by MBC News | Oct 11, 2013 | Current News
Regina police have been cleared of any wrong-doing in the shooting death of a dog in the backyard of a north central Regina home last March. An officer was investigating an assault in the area when he encountered Peter Cote’s pit bull. When the dog ran toward the...
by MBC News | Oct 11, 2013 | Current News
A 16-year-old girl missing from her Regina home has been found safe and sound in northern Saskatchewan. Clarissa Custer was last seen leaving her Regina home on Monday afternoon. She had just moved to the city and left without any possessions or money — and...
by MBC News | Oct 11, 2013 | Current News
A 37-year-old woman from La Loche is in custody after a man was sent to hospital in Saskatoon early this morning with life-threatening injuries. Authorities say they responded to a 911 call from a residence in the 1800 block of 22nd Street West at around 1:50 a.m....
by MBC News | Oct 10, 2013 | Current News
It is the battle of the Taypotats in a court ordered election for chief of the Kahkewistahaw First Nation. Advance polls were open on Thursday in Regina for the election which officially takes place this Saturday. Seventy-five-year-old old Louis Taypotat forced the...
by MBC News | Oct 10, 2013 | Current News
Despite several concerns and criticisms, a Manitoba professor remains optimistic airships will someday fill northern skies supplying communities with goods and services. Professor Barry Prentice downplayed some of the concerns raised by researchers at a Winnipeg...
by MBC News | Oct 10, 2013 | Current News
Sparring sides within the Métis Nation of Saskatchewan were in a Saskatoon courtroom this morning. A group of provincial council members had put forward a court injunction application trying to stop a legislative assembly meeting called by MNS President Robert...
by MBC News | Oct 9, 2013 | Current News
Some hard questions are being asked about airships and their viability in northern Canada. About a hundred people are on hand for a two-day conference in Winnipeg about the ships and their ability to haul hundreds of tonnes in freight. The ships essentially look like...
by MBC News | Oct 9, 2013 | Current News
A single mom and her three girls will soon be moving into their new home in North Central Regina. Not only is it their first new home, it is the first home of its kind in the province. Trina Pelltier and her three daughters are anxious to move in. That will happen...