by MBC News | Oct 23, 2015 | Current News
There will be no contest for the Saskatchewan Party candidacy in the province’s northwest. Originally, people in the Athabasca constituency expected to see candidate Vince Natomagan acclaimed at Sask. Party’s nomination meeting. However, in January Natomagan...
by MBC News | Oct 23, 2015 | Current News
On Thursday, a Prince Albert courtroom heard how intimidation led a woman to smuggle drugs into the federal penitentiary while visiting an inmate. Carry the Kettle band member Valerie Geddes brought seven grams of cannabis resin (also known as hash) while visiting an...
by MBC News | Oct 23, 2015 | Current News
The program detailing Alexandria Wilson’s bio. Photo courtesy Twitter, @EricaVioletLeet A founding member of the “Idle No More” movement will receive special recognition and an award during the fall convocation ceremonies at the University of Saskatchewan on...
by MBC News | Oct 23, 2015 | Current News
A Fashion Speaks Saskatchewan event will help bring awareness to the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women. The Fashion Speaks shows and designer meet and greet on Saturday will give a voice to aboriginal families who have lost mothers, daughters, sisters,...
by MBC News | Oct 23, 2015 | Current News
UPDATE: Saskatoon police report they have located seventeen-year-old Randie Alanna Yellowquill-Machiskinic, who is safe after being reported missing 10 days earlier.
by MBC News | Oct 23, 2015 | Current News
Two men working to repair power lines have died in a helicopter crash on the North Saskatchewan River near Paynton, Saskatchewan. R-C-M-P identified them as a 55-year-old pilot from Campbell River, B.C., and his 30-year-old passenger from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan....
by MBC News | Oct 22, 2015 | Current News
A Prince Albert man and woman faced a series of child neglect charges in court, for the first time, on Thursday. The identity of the two – who share the same last name – will remain under wraps in order to protect the privacy of the children they allegedly abandoned,...
by MBC News | Oct 22, 2015 | Current News
The autopsy for a 17-year-old in Pelican Narrows says he died as a result of a severe concussion. Hilliard Sewap Junior was killed in early May on the reserve. Sewap had been involved in a fight between two groups in Pelican Narrow that involved a chase, yelling, and...
by MBC News | Oct 22, 2015 | Current News
On the campaign trail, the Liberals set up some great expectations for aboriginals. Now the question is, will they deliver? An inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women will likely be the first item to be checked off on the long list of First Nations campaign...
by MBC News | Oct 22, 2015 | Current News
Rosthern RCMP are investigating a crash that claimed the life of a 17-year-old boy from the Beardy’s & Okemasis First Nation this morning. The single-vehicle rollover on Highway 11 between Rosthern and Hague was reported early this morning. Police say the...