Children and Youth Advocate Bob Pringle. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski Saskatchewan’s advocate for children and youth says he has lost the confidence of the legislature, and that is why he is not being reappointed to another five-year term. Pringle has agreed to stay on...
La Ronge Chamber of Commerce’s Wednesday night wildfire meeting. Photo by David Smith About two dozen people gathered in La Ronge Wednesday evening to discuss suggestions for improvement on how last summer’s wildfires and evacuations were handled. The forum for...
Jacob Pratt. Photo submitted The chief of one of the most successful First Nations in the province is being recognized for outstanding business achievement. Darcy Bear is one of two Saskatchewan residents to receive national awards from the Canadian council for...
Georgina Jolibois at her parliamentary swearing-in. Photo courtesy Twitter This week, the Dene language was spoken for the first time ever during a parliamentary oath. The new NDP MP for Desnethe-Missinippi Churchill River, Georgina Jolibois, made history as one of...
TransWest Air’s COO Garrett Lawless. Photo courtesy transwestair.com TransWest Air announced big future plans for growth earlier this year, but right now it’s experiencing some growing pains. On Monday, the airline received a letter giving one-month’s...
A man accused of killing a boy near Muskoday First Nation, while driving under the influence, is heading to pre-trial. Gordon Morris Crain, in his 50s, is charged in the death of an 11-year-old who’d been biking near the Muskoday Bridge on Highway 3 on July 26,...
Brodie Fenlon, the CBC’s acting director of digital news, photo courtesy Twitter. On Monday, the CBC temporarily suspended the comment section on its website for Indigenous stories, stating there were too many comments that were hateful and vitriolic. Brodie Fenlon,...
Saskatoon Tribal Council general manager of health, Ceal Tounier, AIDS should not be spreading in Saskatoon with the new medication available. The Saskatoon Tribal Council marked World AIDS Day with an open house at their downtown health clinic that provides HIV...
On Monday night, a 26-year-old man’s body was found in an outdoor area in the community of Pelican Narrows. What RCMP officers found when they arrived at that scene has led them to believe the man’s death is suspicious. The discovery was made late on...
Aboriginal Aids Awareness conference being held in Regina. Photo by Manfred Joehnck The number of new HIV cases in Saskatchewan is continuing the decline started in 2010, but the infection rate is still by far the highest in Canada and most of the victims are...
