by MBC News | Mar 13, 2019 | Current News
Regina Police are asking for the public’s assistance locating a missing 12-year-old boy. Dayton Lafferty was last seen in the 3100 block of 4th Avenue around 11:30 a.m. Wednesday. He is described as 5’ 6”, 150 lbs, medium build with short, straight black hair and...
by MBC News | Mar 13, 2019 | Current News
Police have laid charges against two men in the shooting death of a Pelican Narrows man Sunday evening. RCMP say they received a 911 report of a shooting on Linklater Street in Pelican Narrows and that the male victim David Jordan Charles was transported to the local...
by MBC News | Mar 13, 2019 | Current News
A former student of Indian Day Schools says a recent settlement package although a good thing is causing confusion. Tom Roberts of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band attended day school in the 1950’s. He says the confusion is over eligibility, suggesting off-reserve day...
by MBC News | Mar 13, 2019 | Current News
The City of Saskatoon is working to break the cycle of Indigenous youth incarceration with ConnectYXE. ConnectYXE is the city’s final proposal for the federal government’s Smart Cities Challenge which is a competition encouraging community improvement. “ConnectYXE...
by MBC News | Mar 13, 2019 | Current News, MBC News
The 19th annual Aboriginal Provincial Broomball Championships come to La Ronge this weekend. Leonard Isbister is with the event and says they have five teams registered to take part in the action. “We have two teams from Hall Lake, we have the Hall Lake Hitmen, we...
by MBC News | Mar 12, 2019 | Current News
A conference which focuses on maintaining traditional Indigenous educational teachings is taking place in North Battleford this week. The two-day Kiskihsomitotan conference wraps up Tuesday. Sylvia Weenie, who is the treaty language culture coordinator for the Treaty...
by MBC News | Mar 12, 2019 | Current News
The NDP says there is a time gap of when Finance Minister Donna Harpauer became aware that the village of Pinehouse paid for two trips there and when she actually reimbursed Pinehouse. Harpauer claims she was informed of the situation when MBC News broke the story in...
by MBC News | Mar 11, 2019 | Current News
Georgina Jolibois says she will seek the NDP nomination for the federal constituency of Desnethé-Missinippi-Churchill River for the fall election. The one-term MP says she has accomplished much over the past four years for her riding, but admits there is still work to...
by MBC News | Mar 11, 2019 | Current News
RCMP say nine different people face a total of 57 charges after a series of drug busts over the past few months. Police say the arrests were made after three search warrants were executed on local residences on Jan. 30, Feb. 13 and Feb. 28. The group of men and women...
by MBC News | Mar 11, 2019 | Current News
Two teenage males have been charged with attempted murder after a shooting incident in the early morning hours of Saturday. Police were called to the vicinity of 8th Avenue and Montague Street around 2 a.m. where they found a 23-year-old male who had been shot. The...