by MBC News | Aug 26, 2015 | Current News
Twelve inmates were moved into Besnard Lake Correctional Camp this week, months after renovations at the facility were complete. Repairs from a fire in the provincial government’s community training camp were complete in April, but the reopening was pushed back to the...
by MBC News | Aug 25, 2015 | Current News
A Regina woman who complained about a Prince Albert Kijiji advertisement wants reconciliation between First Nations and non-First Nations. Kijiji removed a housing rental ad that read “No Indians or dogs allowed” after Jeanne Labelle filed a complaint with the...
by MBC News | Aug 25, 2015 | Current News
The Eli Fire in the summer of 2015. Photo courtesy Tammy Cook-Searson, Facebook. A survey on the effects of this summer’s wildfires and evacuations on businesses in the La Ronge area is complete and has been released to the public. The Northern Wildfire Recovery...
by MBC News | Aug 25, 2015 | Current News
The province’s children’s advocate says poverty in Saskatchewan is largely an aboriginal problem that the entire province and the provincial government should be moving quickly to address it. Bob Pringle, Saskatchewan’s children and youth advocate, was responding to...
by MBC News | Aug 25, 2015 | Current News
The branch of lawyers that represents people who can’t afford legal services is letting go of a high-profile case out of Prince Albert. Leslie Black pleaded guilty to attempted murder against Marlene Bird earlier this year. She had to have two legs amputated and was...
by MBC News | Aug 24, 2015 | Current News
The province will sift through ideas to reduce poverty in Saskatchewan, now that it’s received recommendations from an advisory group. The government, led by Social Services Minister Donna Harpauer, will consider the input, which focuses on six key priority areas, in...
by MBC News | Aug 24, 2015 | Current News
The executive director of a homeless shelter in Regina is providing heightened awareness of the plight of the homeless by camping out on the roof of the building for five days. It has become a yearly ritual for Joe Miller, the executive director of Soul’s Harbour...
by MBC News | Aug 24, 2015 | Current News
Prince Albert Police want people to know they’re not linked to last year’s dog shooting. An online petition saying police used excessive force against a dog on the Key First Nation, near Kamsack, is nearing 200,000 signatures. Part of the RCMP incident...
by MBC News | Aug 24, 2015 | Current News
Last week, there was a quick resolution for a man charged with uttering threats and resisting arrest out of Onion Lake. Garth Swiftwolfe, 18, had been charged with fleeing police, assaulting a peace officer, resisting arrest, uttering threats, and multiple breaches of...
by MBC News | Aug 21, 2015 | Current News
Four years after a teen went missing on a first nation near Lestock, his family continues to search for him. Cody Ridge Wolfe was 17, and last seen in May of 2011 walking from his grandmother’s to a friend’s place on the Muskowekwan First Nation. The first...
