by MBC News | Jun 27, 2019
The disappearance of 22-year-old Jenaya Mary Wapemoose is being considered as suspicious. Wapemoose was reported missing to the Regina Police on May 7. A family member reported last seeing her in person on March 10 and it’s believed others had contact with her as...
by MBC News | Jun 27, 2019
The SJHL has released its pre-season schedule for 2019. As it stands right now, the La Ronge Ice Wolves are slated to play three exhibition games before the campaign begins for real in mid-September. The Ice Wolves will open the pre-season Sept. 5 in Saskatoon versus...
by MBC News | Jun 26, 2019
The Prince Albert Grand Council Women’s Commission is putting on the 15th annual Honouring our Sisters and Brothers Memorial Walk Thursday. “We wanted to bring awareness about how serious it is for missing and murdered women and then families were talking to us...
by MBC News | Jun 26, 2019
It appears Canadians won’t have the opportunity to celebrate a statutory Indigenous holiday anytime soon. Northern Saskatchewan NDP MP Georgina Jolibois’ private member’s bill to make Sept. 30 a national holiday died in the Senate last week after both houses convened...
by MBC News | Jun 26, 2019
One of five prisoners accused of killing another inmate at the Saskatchewan Federal Penitentiary in Prince Albert during a riot has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and has been sentenced to an additional ten years in prison. Court documents say that Kelfert Watetch of...
by MBC News | Jun 26, 2019
Saskatoon Folkfest announced its 2019 honourary ambassador for the 40th annual event scheduled for August. The announcement came on June 21, which is also National Indigenous Peoples Day, and Saskatoon Tribal Chief Mark Arcand will be holding the ambassador title. “I...
by MBC News | Jun 26, 2019
A University of Saskatchewan (USask) graduate student who is originally from La Ronge has received this year’s Queen Elizabeth II Centennial Aboriginal Scholarship. Aaron John Bell is a biology PhD student in the USask College of Arts and Science and was awarded the...
by MBC News | Jun 25, 2019
The children buried in an unmarked cemetery at a former residential school in Regina will be permanently remembered as a commemorative heritage group now owns the land. The Regina Indian Industrial School Association and others have been lobbying for years to get the...
by MBC News | Jun 25, 2019
The La Ronge Ice Wolves boosted their lineup Tuesday with the signing of 20-year-old forward Daylon Mannon for the upcoming SJHL season. Mannon spent the 2018-19 season in the NAHL with the Maryland Black Bears. In 49 regular season games, the Fresno, CA, product had...
by MBC News | Jun 25, 2019
The Lac La Ronge Indian Band is hosting a series of meetings in membership communities around the province on a proposed land code and Monday night officials were in Prince Albert. The custom band code seeks to replace the 32 land management sections of the Indian Act...
