by MBC News | Jun 19, 2015 | Current News
All across the country, Canadians will celebrate National Aboriginal Day on Sunday. In Saskatoon, the University of Saskatchewan will celebrate the day with a lineup of dignitaries and entertainers. It will also be marking the 55th anniversary of the Aboriginal right...
by MBC News | Jun 19, 2015 | Current News
Bart Tsannie has been elected to another term as chief of the Hatchet Lake Denesuline First Nation. Tsannie received 311 votes in yesterday’s election — roughly 130 votes more than his nearest rival, Ed Benoanie, Sr. This is Tsannie’s fourth term as...
by MBC News | Jun 19, 2015 | Current News
A Saskatoon elementary school received a $68,000 grant from the Indigo chain of bookstores today. The Westmount Elementary School will use the money to buy books for students and improve their library. Principal Nicola Bishop-Yong says the school is on the path to...
by MBC News | Jun 18, 2015 | Current News
Manitoba has become the first province to formally apologize to Aboriginal adoptees for taking them from their homes and placing them with non-Native families. Premier Greg Selinger delivered the apology in the provincial legislature following a ceremony for those who...
by MBC News | Jun 18, 2015 | Current News
Leading experts on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder say the condition is under-reported, highly stigmatized and misunderstood. They are trying to change that by sharing research during a national conference being staged at the Saskatchewan legislative building this...
by MBC News | Jun 18, 2015 | Current News
Dillon RCMP are investigating an ATV crash which took the life of a 19-year-old man. The incident on Highway 925 happened around 4:15 Wednesday morning. Police say two men and a woman were involved in the crash involving a quad. A 19-year-old man was pronounced dead...
by MBC News | Jun 18, 2015 | Current News
Prince Albert RCMP are continuing their investigation after a man went missing last month. Troy Cecil Napope was last seen in Prince Albert on May 28 and on that same morning RCMP investigated a burnt out car on Whitfield Road north of Highway 3. The RCMP say the...
by MBC News | Jun 18, 2015 | Current News
Today is election day at Hatchet Lake Frist Nation and for the first time, chief and council will serve a three-year term. Incumbent chief Bart Tsannie is being challenged by JB Tsannie and Edward Benoanie Sr. Bart Tsannie has been chief since 2009. The polls are open...
by MBC News | Jun 18, 2015 | Current News
Organizers say thousands of people attended the Rise-Up Prince Albert concert last month and now they are expecting a big turnout for the upcoming concert in La Ronge. Rise-Up La Ronge is a concert that will coincide with the communities Canada Day celebrations on...
by MBC News | Jun 17, 2015 | Current News
Family of a missing Prince Albert-area woman are not giving up hope that 22-year-old Danielle Nyland will be found alive. The Metis woman has now been missing for 10 days. Her uncle, Lynn Regnier, says the family is coping. “We are doing the best that we...
