Minister of Corrections Christine Tell and Foxvalley Counselling Mark Fox. Photo by Manfred Joehnck The provincial government has launched a two-year pilot project aimed at helping the most vulnerable families rebuild. A partnership between a handful of provincial...
Saskatchewan’s highest court has dismissed a wrongful dismissal suit filed against the First Nations University more than 10 years ago. The institution’s former vice-president Wes Stevenson filed the suit after he was fired with cause over allegations of misspending....
A Wahpeton Dakota Nation woman’s trial for second-degree murder won’t go ahead as planned, after the prosecutor in the case announced plans to withdraw all unresolved charges in the case. Valerie Standing’s trial was related to the death of Brant...
Fraser Littlewolfe. Photo courtesy RCMP The RCMP is putting out a call for help in catching a man they suspect was involved in an Onion Lake gun-related incident on the weekend. Shots were fired behind an Onion Lake home just before noon on Sunday, by a group of...
A man charged with second-degree murder in a Red Earth death has wrapped up preliminary hearings and will move to pre-trial at Melfort Queen’s Bench. Ernest McKay, 21, and a 17-year-old boy are charged with second-degree murder and robbery in the death of Dion...
Photo courtesy Twitter, @GCIndigenous Several Aboriginal leaders and minister’s responsible for Indigenous affairs gathered in Ottawa today for the first ever Federal-Provincial-Territorial-Indigenous Forum. The forum brought together ministers responsible for...
Photo Courtesy Sask Mining Association, Twitter. The First Nations unemployment rate in Saskatchewan is more than four times the provincial average while the Metis rate is twice as high. The latest job numbers from Statistics Canada were released this morning. They...
For 40 years the Northern Teachers Education Program has trained teachers in northern Saskatchewan and this weekend the organization will celebrate that milestone. On Friday and Saturday several teachers, students and others involved in the program over the years will...
Pride flags were freshly unfolded for the first time on Beardy’s and Okemasis First Nation this week, but not for the last time as councillor Kevin Seeseequasis encourages the reserve to “go gayly forward.” As a two-spirit man, Seeseequasis is the guiding force...
RCMP out of Fond du Lac are confirming that a 20 year-old woman is dead after she was struck by a vehicle. Delaine Lidguerre of Fond du Lac was struck by a truck when she was walking by the side of the road at around 9:15 Thursday morning. RCMP say she received...
