by MBC News | Sep 10, 2015 | Current News
The University of Saskatchewan is partnering with the Arctic University of Norway to launch a northern governance and development master’s degree program. The announcement was made on Wednesday at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. U of S professor Ken...
by MBC News | Sep 9, 2015 | Current News
While search crews scoured the Sucker River area for a missing woman almost two years ago, her killer had already confessed to his crime. Ricky Jonathan Ross, 29, had told his brother he “bashed that girl’s head in,” according to the facts read out by the Crown...
by MBC News | Sep 9, 2015 | Current News
If you get a phone call asking you what you think about Regina police: it is not a crank call, it’s part of a survey. Police began the public perception surveys in 2011 to find out what areas they need to work on and how the public perceives them. The survey examines...
by MBC News | Sep 9, 2015 | Current News
First Nations Chiefs in Ontario are launching an online fundraising campaign to pay for their own public inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women. Ontario regional Chief Isadore Day says he doesn’t want to wait any longer for the federal government to...
by MBC News | Sep 9, 2015 | Current News
The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) says he’s listened to his elders and will be voting on Oct. 19 after all. Just a week ago, the AFN issued a statement encouraging First Nations people to vote in the federal election. However, Chief Perry...
by MBC News | Sep 9, 2015 | Current News
A 31-year-old man is dead after he was hurt while doing maintenance work at the lumber mill south of Big River on Tuesday. Big River RCMP and paramedics were called to the Carrier Wood Products worksite before 9 p.m., but the man had already succumbed to his injuries...
by MBC News | Sep 9, 2015 | Current News
It was STARS air ambulance to the rescue when an elderly hunter went missing on the Sweetgrass First Nation west of North Battleford. The family of the 89-year-old man called RCMP around 9 p.m. on Tuesday when he didn’t return after a day of hunting. He had last been...
by MBC News | Sep 8, 2015 | Current News
The power of the First Nations vote has caused a lot of buzz leading up to the federal election, and that excitement is fueling a group of First Nation University (FNUniv) students. The group ‘Voice to Vote’ formed as a sociology class project this spring....
by MBC News | Sep 8, 2015 | Current News
A Pelican Narrows fisherman pulled in two big ones, defying the odds, in an impressive fishing feat on the weekend. Ronald Highway won the Senator Pierre Settee Memorial Heaviest Walleye Derby, in Cumberland House, over the weekend catching the same size fish on both...
by MBC News | Sep 8, 2015 | Current News
The RCMP is looking for information after two men in a half-ton truck pulled over and offered candy and a ride to girls on the Little Red River reserve on Saturday. At about 10 p.m., the two 12-year-old girls refused the offer, and the driver got out and tried to grab...
