by MBC News | Dec 14, 2016 | Current News
Eric Ratt. Photo courtesy La Ronge RCMP A Lac La Ronge trapper’s canoe has been recovered, but he hasn’t been seen for nearly two months after last being seen leaving a cabin near Key Lake Mine. Eric Ratt was last seen on Oct. 19 at a family member’s trapper cabin on...
by MBC News | Dec 14, 2016 | Current News
Saskatchewan Court of Appeal/Court of Queens Bench in Regina. Photo courtesy of Manfred Joehnck. Last spring’s election results on the George Gordon First Nation are still up in the air, but the Indigenous Affairs Department has now changed its position on how it will...
by MBC News | Dec 13, 2016 | Current News
A La Ronge man has been charged with drug trafficking after RCMP seized $13,000 worth of cocaine yesterday near Paddockwood. The suspect — 41-year-old Craig Raymond Larson — was a passenger in a suspicious vehicle RCMP stopped Monday morning. Cutting...
by MBC News | Dec 13, 2016 | Current News
Ramsey Whitehead. Photo courtesy Harvey Fourfeathers. The accused in a Red Earth Cree Nation first-degree murder case was present in court on Tuesday, as was the family of the victim. Davis Whitehead, 25, stood in the Melfort Provincial Court prisoner’s box to...
by MBC News | Dec 13, 2016 | Current News
Trent Wotherspoon. Photo courtesy of Manfred Joehnck. Saskatchewan’s NDP leader says the provincial government could have, and should have, done more to end the economic disparity facing the province’s growing Aboriginal population. In a year-end interview with MBC...
by MBC News | Dec 13, 2016 | Current News
Photo courtesy of graduateinstitute.ch There were no serious injuries reported after a fire destroyed a home this morning on the Buffalo River Dene Nation. The blaze was first spotted around 2:00 am. Witnesses at the scene say it apparently started in a wood stove on...
by MBC News | Dec 13, 2016 | Current News
Larissa Ledoux looks on as her uncle Joseph and father Gordon embrace for the first time. Photo courtesy Larissa Ledoux. NOTE: A video of half-brothers Joseph and Gordon Ledoux meeting for the first time in 70 years can be viewed here. Video courtesy Larissa Ledoux....
by MBC News | Dec 12, 2016 | Current News
FSIN Chief Bobby Cameron and PBCN Chief Peter Beatty with some of the meat donations. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski. Food bank and shelter clients all over Saskatchewan will have access to traditional meats this winter due to the efforts of well over 100 First Nations...
by MBC News | Dec 12, 2016 | Current News
Spring NAFA Auction. Photo courtesy of furtraders.ca The price for fur in Saskatchewan is down anywhere from 27 per cent to 89 per cent since 2013, but the number of people getting fur licenses nearly doubled over the same period. The province’s fur administrator says...
by MBC News | Dec 12, 2016 | Current News
File photo. Charges of first-degree murder and aggravated assault have been laid following the death of a man on the Red Earth First Nation. On Saturday afternoon, police were called to a home on the reserve, where they found an injured person. RCMP say 29-year-old...
