by MBC News | Jun 12, 2015 | Current News
Only a handful of evacuees remain displaced as a result of northern Saskatchewan forest fires, and they will be heading home tonight. Hundreds of evacuees went back home yesterday and this morning after being forced from their homes by smoke and fire last weekend....
by MBC News | Jun 12, 2015 | Current News
Many adoptees of the “60’s Scoop” say their experience was as traumatic as that suffered by residential school survivors. A public forum is scheduled in Saskatoon tonight to examine this process where thousands of Aboriginal children were taken from...
by MBC News | Jun 12, 2015 | Current News
Past students, teachers and staff were in Cumberland House today to celebrate an educational milestone in the community. The Charlebois Community School is celebrating 125 years since it first opened. Vice Principal Aaron Fosseneuve says the school was originally...
by MBC News | Jun 12, 2015 | Current News
The last of the forest fire evacuees who were forced to leave their homes in northern Saskatchewan this week and been told they can return home. Lac La Ronge Indian Band Chief Tammy Cook-Searson says residents of Sikachu Lake and Clam Lake Bridge can go home, but not...
by MBC News | Jun 11, 2015 | Current News
Finally, the news they have been waiting for — hundreds of evacuees are heading home today after forest fires and heavy smoke forced them from their northern Saskatchewan communities last weekend. There are now just two communities where the evacuation order...
by MBC News | Jun 11, 2015 | Current News
Seventeen members of the public were honoured in Saskatoon Wednesday night for their completion of the first ever Mental Health and Addiction Peer Support Program. This program allows people with lived experience of mental health challenges to learn skills to support...
by MBC News | Jun 11, 2015 | Current News
Northlands College put on an open house on Wednesday for its Line Tech Fundamentals Course. Students who take the program can gain employment as a power lineman upon completion. Bruce Skilliter is an instructor with the program. He says the course has been successful...
by MBC News | Jun 11, 2015 | Current News
Shellbrook RCMP are looking to the public for information on a missing woman. Police say 22-year-old Danielle Nyland was last seen in the Shellbrook area on Monday morning and was reported missing yesterday. She is Metis, 5’6″, 180 lbs., and has long brown...
by MBC News | Jun 11, 2015 | Current News
The evacuation order announced earlier this week has been lifted for several northern communities. That includes the Lac La Ronge Indian Band-La Ronge, Sucker River, Hall Lake and Stanley Mission. The voluntary evacuation order is also lifted for the Town of La Ronge,...
by MBC News | Jun 11, 2015 | MBC News
The evacuation order announced earlier this week has been lifted for several northern communities. That includes the Lac La Ronge Indian Band-La Ronge, Sucker River, Hall Lake and Stanley Mission. The voluntary evacuation order is also lifted for the Town of La Ronge,...