by MBC News | Nov 8, 2018
Saskatchewan’s Indigenous veterans gathered Thursday in Regina to mark the 25th National Aboriginal Veterans Day. One veteran of the Korean War estimated there were approximately two dozen veterans alive in the province today. Another said he was the last in his First...
by MBC News | Nov 8, 2018
The chair of New North says adequate training for both administrators and councillors continues to be an issue for communities in this part of the province. Bruce Fidler, who is also the mayor of Creighton, was speaking at the Northern Labour Market Committee meeting...
by MBC News | Nov 8, 2018
A Dillon RCMP member is facing a breach of trust charge after allegedly accessing private images from a surveillance video recording taken in the cell block area of the Buffalo Narrows detachment. Two other Dillon RCMP officers came across and reported the information...
by MBC News | Nov 8, 2018
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations is celebrating the Supreme Court’s dismissal of a case against a First Nations man charged with harvesting moose on private land. Kristjan Pierone is a Treaty 5 hunter from Manitoba. While hunting near Swift Current, he...
by MBC News | Nov 8, 2018
Former NHLer P.J. Stock will be heading to northern Saskatchewan in a couple weeks. Stock is the guest speaker at the upcoming La Ronge Ice Wolves Back the Pack Dinner on Nov. 24 at the JRMCC. Stock played 235 games in the NHL with the Rangers, Canadiens, Flyers and...
by MBC News | Nov 8, 2018
The La Ronge Ice Wolves have traded 20-year-old goalie Merek Pipes to the Swan Valley Stampeders (MJHL) in exchange for future considerations. In five games with La Ronge this season, Pipes posted a 3.66 goals-against average and .906 save percentage. He had one win...
by MBC News | Nov 8, 2018
About 75 people attended an RCMP town hall meeting just outside Prince Albert on Wednesday night. The Mounties have been hosting similar meetings around the province. Lyle Korczak is the sergeant in charge of operations at the RCMP’s Prince Albert detachment. He says...
by MBC News | Nov 8, 2018
Orano is holding meetings this week to discuss the decommissioning of the Cluff Lake project. The mine, located in the western Athabasca Basin, was in operation from 1980 to 2002. It consists of both open pit and closed mines. In 22 years of operation, the project...
by MBC News | Nov 7, 2018
The family of Nadine Machiskinic say they are disappointed that justice was not served in her death following a meeting Tuesday with Regina Police Chief Evan Bray. Bray met to discuss the findings and recommendations from an RCMP review into the 29-year-old’s January...
by MBC News | Nov 7, 2018
A University of Saskatchewan professor says the provincial government may have to put resource revenue sharing with First Nations on the table if it wants development projects to move forward. The Sask. Party government and James Smith Cree Nation are currently in a...
