by MBC News | May 29, 2020
RCMP have charged four people after an investigation into organized crime in the Prince Albert area. The charges stem from a search warrant in February and the investigation dates back to last October. Twenty-eight-year-old Jesse Dillon of Onion Lake, 24-year-old...
by MBC News | May 29, 2020
The LGBTQ+ pride flag will be flown at locations in La Ronge, Air Ronge and the Lac La Ronge Indian Band for the month of June. The motion to fly the flag during Pride month, which is celebrated annually in June, was presented to La Ronge town council on Wednesday...
by MBC News | May 29, 2020
Former La Ronge Ice Wolves Head Coach and GM Evan Vossen has a new job. Vossen has been hired by the South Alberta Hockey Academy in Medicine Hat, AB to be the coach of the female U18 prep team. He spent this past season at the Banff Hockey Academy and was the coach...
by MBC News | May 29, 2020
The Métis Nation-Saskatchewan has donated more than $34,000 in equipment and other materials to a woman who is making protective masks to fight COVID-19. Angela Bishop is a Métis lawyer from Green Lake who is part of a group who has been making the protective cloth...
by MBC News | May 28, 2020
A La Ronge high school student says she is struggling after having to complete her last year of high school online and not knowing what will happen after graduation. Lilly Markwart is one of around 60 graduating students at Churchill Community High School. She said it...
by MBC News | May 28, 2020
A northern resident said she felt humiliated Wednesday after being denied an appointment to see an optometrist in southern Saskatchewan. Georgina Jolibois, who lives in the northwest said she called her optometrist she’d been using for 20 years and claims she was told...
by MBC News | May 28, 2020
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the La Ronge Ice Wolves were forced to move a popular fundraiser online this year. The Ice Wolves were able to raise over $12,000 during their jersey auction, which took place on Facebook earlier this week. In addition to the team’s...
by MBC News | May 28, 2020
The executive director of the Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority told a House of Commons Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs that First Nation communities in Saskatchewan are experiencing shortages in personal protective and testing equipment, as well as...
by MBC News | May 27, 2020
The 2020 Lac La Ronge Indian Band election will go down as one for the history books. The election was initially supposed to be at the end of March but was delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Existing chief and council were then sworn back into office on an...
by MBC News | May 27, 2020
Two men and a woman from Pelican Narrows have been charged for allegedly trying to bootleg alcohol into the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation. The charges come after over 50 bottles of alcohol were found in the vehicle on Thursday during a search at the COVID-19 check-stop...
