by MBC News | Jan 30, 2015 | Current News
The federal government is suing a Saskatchewan law firm, alleging lawyers fraudulently over billed for their work with victims of Indian residential schools. In a statement of claim not yet proven in court, the government says an audit shows the Merchant Law Group...
by MBC News | Jan 30, 2015 | Current News
The federal government has announced a five-year funding partnership with the City of Prince Albert to fight homelessness in the community. Nearly $300,000 will be invested into local housing initiatives like the YWCA and the PA Community Housing Society. One project...
by MBC News | Jan 30, 2015 | Current News
The Prince Albert man accused of killing a 28-year-old Sturgeon Lake woman made his first court appearance Friday morning. Thirty-eight-year-old Todd McKeaveney is charged with second degree murder after Monica Burns’ body was found on a remote snowmobile trail...
by MBC News | Jan 30, 2015 | Current News
It appears things are going a bit better for Marlene Bird these days after she recently moved into a home north of Prince Albert. The Aboriginal women suffered a vicious beating in Prince Albert last June which resulted in the amputation of both her legs. The...
by MBC News | Jan 30, 2015 | Current News
An Aboriginal offender convicted of stabbing a man in the face with a pen faces the prospect of spending the rest his life behind bars. Prosecutors are trying to get 35-year-old Anthony Joseph Slippery declared as a dangerous offender but his lawyer Kevin Hill argues...
by MBC News | Jan 30, 2015 | Current News
An ambulance driver summoned to a house fire on a La Ronge-area reserve got a little more than he bargained for when he arrived Thursday afternoon. The La Ronge EMS ambulance was struck by an allegedly impaired driver as it and other emergency responders arrived on...
by MBC News | Jan 30, 2015 | Current News
The Saskatoon Police Service is looking to get more Aboriginal people involved in the force. SPS held a special recruitment session with the goal of increasing the number of Indigenous officers in the police force on Thursday night. Police Chief Clive Weighill says...
by MBC News | Jan 29, 2015 | Current News
Police have made an arrest in the death of 28-year-old Monica Burns. Burns’ body was found on a snowmobile trail about 15 kilometres outside of Prince Albert on Jan. 17. Thirty-eight-year-old Todd Daniel McKeaveney of Prince Albert has been charged with...
by MBC News | Jan 29, 2015 | Current News
It was an emotionally-charged day in Regina Court of Queen’s Bench as the jury delivered its verdict in the trial of a man accused of beating his girlfriend’s two-year-old daughter to death in June of 2012. The jury began its deliberations in the...
by MBC News | Jan 29, 2015 | Current News
Nearly 100 people braved the cold in Prince Albert today to walk in support of missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls. The group walked from city hall to the John A. Macdonald Building to show their support for an inquiry into the issue. Joining them on the...
