The Lac La Ronge Indian Band officially opened a new bridge on the Little Red River Reserve Tuesday. LLRIB Chief Tammy Cook-Searson says the new bridge will make it easier for residents to get in and out of the community. “When the old bridge was decommissioned, a lot...
Denison Mines, which owns 63.3 percent of the Wheeler River project, says it plans to start its summer diamond drilling season this week. Twenty-eight holes will be dug at the Gryphon deposit, the K-North area and High-Priority Regional. Dale Verran, vice-president...
After being served an eviction notice to vacate the grounds across from the Legislative Building by Tuesday afternoon, an Indigenous justice rights protest camp was still there Wednesday morning. The Provincial Capital Commission posted a notice on a tree near the...
A survivor of the La Loche shootings says she is disappointed lawyers for the shooter are appealing his adult sentence. The shooter was a youth at the time of the crimes in January 2016. Charlene Klyne was a supply teacher at Dene High School the day the carnage took...
The Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League says it will be looking into ways it can honour Indigenous players that have been part of the history of the league. “This will be accomplished with determining at least one player from each team, past or present, to assist with...
Eleanore Sunchild says emotions between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities seem to have tempered somewhat in the months following the acquittal of Gerald Stanley. Stanley shot and killed 22-year-old Colten Boushie of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in August...
The CEO of a northern Saskatchewan community development organization says northern Saskatchewan may be the most unemployed region in Canada. Randy Johns, of the Keewatin Community Development Association, says his organization recently compiled some statistics...
A northern Sask. MP is hoping the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls comes to her area to hear from survivors and families. Georgina Jolibois is repeating her request, after the federal government, Tuesday announced a six-month...
Lawyers representing the La Loche school shooter have filed an appeal of his sentence. In January 2016, the now twenty-year-old shooter fatally shot four people in a school and a house in the northern community. After years in the court process, the shooter was...
