by MBC News | Feb 20, 2015
A gas station on the Beardy’s and Okemasis First Nation has been fined $27,000 for environmental violations. Blackhawk’s Gas pleaded guilty to the offenses in provincial court on Wednesday. The business was ordered to pay $25,000 for failing to comply with...
by MBC News | Feb 20, 2015
The A La Baie Metis Local 21, N-14 Fur Trappers Association, and the Ile a la Crosse Fisherman’s Cooperative have all joined the Northern Village of Ile a la Crosse in signing the agreement to come together on any matters affecting the local land. Metis local...
by MBC News | Feb 20, 2015
Time and patience paid off. After a 12-hour standoff in the small community of Sturgeon Landing, a man wanted for murder and abduction surrendered to RCMP. Forty-three-year-old Jonas Budd is now behind bars facing numerous charges. This drama began to unfold at...
by MBC News | Feb 19, 2015
About 130 people attended a Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations roundtable on missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Saskatoon Thursday afternoon. Violence against Indigenous women is an ongoing problem in Saskatchewan and the FSIN is looking for grassroots...
by MBC News | Feb 19, 2015
A tense drama is unfolding in the small northeastern Saskatchewan community of Sturgeon Landing. A local outfitter says no one is being allowed in or out of the community as RCMP attempt to convince a man wanted for a murder and an abduction in the La Ronge area to...
by MBC News | Feb 18, 2015
MBC has learned that an arrest warrant was issued for Jonas Budd yesterday — hours before he allegedly killed a teen on a La Ronge-area reserve and abducted a 17-year-old girl. It was issued after Budd failed to appear in court yesterday on charges of break and...
by MBC News | Feb 18, 2015
The subject of an Amber Alert in the La Ronge-area has been found safe — but a manhunt continues for the suspect in her abduction and a murder in a reserve residence early this morning. RCMP say 17-year-old Kayla Natomagan was abducted from a residence on the...
by MBC News | Feb 18, 2015
SGI, in partnership with the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies, wants to fast-track Aboriginal students into the high demand auto repair industry. Each year there are more than 200,000 auto damage claims in Saskatchewan. That is a lot of wrecked cars that...
by MBC News | Feb 18, 2015
Northern Saskatchewan trappers are being warned to monitor government legislation that affects their traditional practices. Trappers are meeting in Prince Albert this week for the Northern Saskatchewan Trappers Association annual convention. In a presentation about...
by MBC News | Feb 18, 2015
Twenty Aboriginal youth from all over Saskatchewan are attending a leadership symposium in Saskatoon this week. The event is being hosted by the Aboriginal Friendship Centres of Saskatchewan. AFCS Executive Director Gwen Bear says the symposium focuses on small...
