by MBC News | Aug 26, 2014 | Current News
Prince Albert RCMP continue to search for a missing woman in the Sturgeon Lake area. Police say 34-year-old Mavis Bird was last seen on Aug. 21. Bird is described as of Aboriginal descent, 5’ 3” tall with brown hair and brown eyes. Police believe she may be in and...
by MBC News | Aug 26, 2014 | Current News
Police have apprehended a 29-year-old female murder suspect who went missing earlier this month. Regina police arrested Brianna Wesaquate on Tuesday morning. She is accused of second-degree murder in the October 2013 death of Cassandra Joan Desjarlais. Wesaquate was...
by MBC News | Aug 26, 2014 | Current News
A 4,000-year-old Aboriginal spiritual site has been rediscovered nearly 50 years after it was submerged in water. The 400 tonne rock, called Mistasiniy (Cree) or Buffalo Child Stone, was blown up by the federal government in 1966. After an arduous yearlong search,...
by MBC News | Aug 25, 2014 | Current News
A Cree elder from northern Saskatchewan will begin a 400-kilometre walk tomorrow in an effort to get a national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women. Emil Bell might be best known for going on a hunger strike last year in support of Attawapiskat First...
by MBC News | Aug 25, 2014 | Current News
After two years of negotiations, the northern community of Southend and uranium mining company Cameco formally signed a ten-year business development agreement Monday. The agreement has a number of goals including increasing local participation in the industry,...
by MBC News | Aug 25, 2014 | Current News
Search and rescue officials are relieved a weekend operation had a happy ending after an elderly woman went missing in the bush. Meadow Lake RCMP say 89-year-old Alice Gobert was located after being reported missing after a berry-picking trip Saturday evening. A...
by MBC News | Aug 25, 2014 | Current News
RCMP continue to investigate a fatal single vehicle accident near the Sturgeon Lake First Nation. The crash happened early Sunday morning and has claimed one life and seriously injured two other people. Mounties say a 24-year-old local man was declared dead at the...
by MBC News | Aug 25, 2014 | Current News
Alcohol is believed to be a factor in a single vehicle rollover near the Pasqua First Nation on Saturday morning. Police say the vehicle had veered off a grid road and rolled end over end. One of the occupants was airlifted to a Regina hospital with life-threatening...
by MBC News | Aug 22, 2014 | Current News
Rescue officials have located the body of a man who is believed to have drowned in southeastern Saskatchewan on Wednesday. The 44-year-old man from White Bear First Nation was last seen trying to swim across a river near the Alameda dam a little after 4 p.m. Initial...
by MBC News | Aug 22, 2014 | Current News
The Liberal Party’s health critic says Stephen Harper’s remark that the issue of missing and murdered Aboriginal women isn’t a “sociological phenomenon” is an “ignorant statement for a Prime Minister to make.” MP Hedy Fry is one of several politicians taking...
