by MBC News | Oct 7, 2020
A new Indigenous senior hockey league is coming to Saskatchewan. The Saskatchewan Treaty Hockey League (STHL) has been created and will feature two divisions. “This is a great initiative that will help develop and promote senior hockey in our First Nation...
by MBC News | Oct 7, 2020
The NDP candidate for Cumberland said he has unfinished business in the Legislature. Doyle Vermette is looking to continue his career as a Member of the Legislative Assembly, a position he has held since June 2008 following a by-election win. “We look at affordability...
by MBC News | Oct 7, 2020
Lawyers representing the mother of the late Colten Boushie will be before the Supreme Court of Canada today, arguing for the elimination of peremptory challenges for jury selection. Sunchild Law and Murphy Law will go before the High Court for Debbie Baptiste claiming...
by MBC News | Oct 6, 2020
The Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority is advising of a second COVID-19 case in the Far North West region. The organization says there are two active cases in the North Central zone with one person being hospitalized. The exact location of the cases is not...
by MBC News | Oct 6, 2020
A person with strong ties to Cumberland House is seeking to unseat two-term incumbent NDP candidate Doyle Vermette. Darren Deschambeault was acclaimed as the Saskatchewan Party candidate for Cumberland in mid-September. Deschambeault went to school in Cumberland House...
by MBC News | Oct 6, 2020
A Sask. First Nation is teaming with four Alberta First Nations to buy an equity stake in the Keystone XL pipeline. The consortium of the Maskwacis Nations in Alberta made up of the Erminskin Cree Nation, the Montana First Nation, Saddle Cree Nation and the Louis Bull...
by MBC News | Oct 5, 2020
The La Ronge Ice Wolves have plenty of French content on their roster this season. Narek Aleksanyan, Mathieu Bélanger and William Smith all hail from Quebec. Aleksanyan, an 18-year-old forward, spent the 2019-20 season in the WSHL with the Fresno Monsters and recorded...
by MBC News | Oct 5, 2020
UPDATE – RCMP say Brandon Holmes has been located and taken into custody....
by MBC News | Oct 5, 2020
Conservation officers in Northern Saskatchewan are investigating two poaching incidents in late September. Authorities in La Ronge allege that a moose was killed south of the junction along Highway 912, on the evening of September 20, on reports of shots fired....
by MBC News | Oct 5, 2020
The Piwapan Women’s Centre Sisters in Spirit Walk was held in La Ronge on Sunday. Organizer Jade Hartley says the walk is part of the effort to raise awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women in the north. She says they started at the Lac La Ronge...
