by MBC News | Oct 17, 2017
The Juno Beach Centre. One of the many destinations the students hope to visit. Photo courtesy junobeach.org Ten students from a northern Saskatchewan high school are hoping to travel to Europe to walk in the footsteps of Aboriginal soldiers during the First and...
by MBC News | Oct 16, 2017
Sask. NDP leadership hopeful Trent Wotherspoon with Cumberland MLA Doyle Vermette Saskatchewan NDP leadership hopeful Trent Wotherspoon was in La Ronge today to make two campaign promises. One of his promises is to provide core funding for the Northern Trappers...
by MBC News | Oct 16, 2017
Ron Woytowich. Photo courtesy of afcs.ca The mayor of La Ronge will be on an extended medical leave while he recovers in hospital. Ron Woytowich was taken to a Saskatoon hospital earlier this month. His family has asked for privacy in the matter and the nature of the...
by MBC News | Oct 16, 2017
Cell setup at a correctional centre. MBC file photo. The federal government wants to find alternatives to jail for Indigenous offenders. Even though they represent only about four per cent of the Canadian population, Corrections Canada says they represent about 24 per...
by MBC News | Oct 16, 2017
Photo courtesy @NorthSaskTrappers, Facebook. Saskatchewan’s Provincial Fur Specialist says he is encouraged by the fur market prices from this past year. Over the past few years the wild fur industry has been under stress after many different species were seeing...
by MBC News | Oct 16, 2017
RCMP would like to hear from anyone with information on a fire in Stanley Mission. Last Wednesday morning fires were reported in a vacant home and a shed in the backyard. A 23-year-old man was found in the shed and taken to hospital with serious injuries....
by MBC News | Oct 13, 2017
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission says there was a small propane explosion in the acid plant sulphur furnace at Cameco’s Key Lake mill earlier this week. The CNSC says it happened on Tuesday when workers were initiating the start-up of the plant. The...
by MBC News | Oct 13, 2017
Photo by Manfred Joehnck Ground was broken this morning for a new special needs housing complex to be built in North Central Regina, a couple of blocks from the old Taylor Field. The $1.4-million Samaritan Project is among a dozen new affordable housing projects being...
by MBC News | Oct 13, 2017
A manslaughter charge has been laid after a death on the Clearwater River Dene Nation this past summer. RCMP say 41-year-old Bradley Scott Lemaigre was found dead outside a home in the community on August 10. Police say after an investigation they arrested 29-year-old...
by MBC News | Oct 13, 2017
A charge of impaired driving causing death has been stayed against a North Battleford man, but Terrance Watson was sentenced to 90 days in jail on a charge of failing to remain at the scene of an accident. The case was heard in North Battleford court on September...
