Firefighters continue to battle a blaze just outside Prince Albert. The Cloverdale Fire erupted Monday afternoon about four kilometres northeast of the city and is currently classified as uncontained. The blaze is about 3,700 hectares in size and roughly 28 local...
(Photo: Odelia Quewezance) Support in mounting for the release of two Saskatchewan First Nations sisters convicted of murder to be released from prison. Odelia and Narissa Quewezance were sentenced to life in prison for the second-degree murder of Anthony Joseph...
A judge has upheld amendments limiting who can vote for the next executive of the Métis Nation-Saskatchewan (MN-S). In an interim ruling brought down May 14, Saskatoon Court of Queen’s Bench Justice R.W. Elson said the decisions made during this past February’s Métis...
Prince Albert Police allege that RCMP officer Bernie Herman confessed to a co-worker that he killed someone. “On Tuesday, May 11th, Bernie Herman, a long-serving member of the RCMP phoned a co-worker and made disturbing comments that he had killed someone. The accused...
Some residents living the City of Prince Albert and parts of the Rural Municipality of Buckland are being ordered to evacuate. In a message put out over the provincial emergency alert system people living north of Highway 55 east of Cloverdale Road and west of...
A Saskatoon MLA said she was angry to learn that her grandchildren were recently subjected to racism. In a May 11 tweet, Saskatoon Centre MLA Betty Nippi-Albright detailed the encounter. “My lil grandchildren were walking home from school with their dad like they do...
(Photo of Leanne Poitras-Kelly. Courtesy of the University of Victoria.) Before starting her day as a nurse educator, Leanne Poitras-Kelly centres herself with morning exercise and — of course — coffee. If she goes for a walk, she’ll be listening to her favourite...
It appears a Prince Albert RCMP officer charged with first-degree murder provided details to police that would later lead to his arrest. Corporal Bernie Herman, a 32-year veteran of the RCMP, is charged with murder in the death of 26-year-old Braden Herman of the...
RCMP say the remains of a man who went missing while fishing in northern Saskatchewan last fall have been recovered. Matthew Hamm of Hague was reported missing last September. Police say his body was recovered in Weyakwin Lake on Wednesday by the Lloydminster Rescue...
