by MBC News | Jun 3, 2021
The Clearwater River Dene Nation has established a checkpoint on Highway 955, as there has been an increase on uranium exploration. An area north of the community is rich in uranium deposits. The First Nation contents that the granting of exploration permits is being...
by MBC News | Jun 2, 2021
By Michael Joel-Hansen The Prince Albert Grand Council (PAGC) has offered their support to all those impacted by the events in Kamloops British Colombia. PAGC Grand Chief Brian Hardlotte said the discovery of 215 children in a mass grave on the site of the former...
by MBC News | Jun 2, 2021
Two girls, aged six and eight, were injured in a weekend assault according to the RCMP. La Ronge RCMP say they received a call Saturday evening to help emergency medical services with the injured children at Bells Points on the Lac La Ronge Indian Band reserve. The...
by MBC News | Jun 2, 2021
Two-hundred and fifteen birch bark rafts will be released on to Lac La Ronge on Friday during a ceremony. The rafts are being made this week on the site of the Lac La Ronge Residential School. Tom Roberts, a residential school support worker and counsellor who also...
by MBC News | Jun 2, 2021
The Men of the North support group is initiating a community clean-up contest starting Friday and ending Sunday. The competition will have participants clean an area of La Ronge, Air Ronge or the Lac La Ronge Indian Band then send in before and after photos to be...
by MBC News | Jun 2, 2021
(Photo: Justice for Our Stolen Children camp tipi.) The Saskatchewan Court of Appeals is reserving its decision on whether to dismiss an appeal by an Indigenous protest camp, which occupied Wascana Park for 197 days in 2018. The Justice for Our Stolen Children Camp,...
by MBC News | Jun 2, 2021
A northern literacy hub is being established in La Ronge for children in the area six-years-old and younger. The La Ronge and Area Family Literacy Hub is designed to give caregivers resources and spaces designed to facilitate their child’s early literacy development....
by MBC News | Jun 2, 2021
The pride flag was raised in a ceremony Tuesday in Patterson Park in downtown La Ronge. The annual ceremony was hosted by the Lac La Ronge Regional Pride committee and saw a crowd adorned in rainbows. Colin Ratushniak, pride committee member and mayor of La Ronge,...
by MBC News | Jun 1, 2021
The tri-communities of La Ronge, Air Ronge and the Lac La Ronge Indian Band have all lowered their flags to half-mast to honour the lives of the 215 children found in a mass grave site on the grounds of the Kamloops Indian Residential School in Kamloops, B.C. The town...
by MBC News | Jun 1, 2021
A somber ceremony was held at the site of one of Canada’s last known standing residential schools, and a place where 35 unmarked graves were discovered, not only to honour the children who did not come home from the Muskowekwan Indian Residential School, but for the...
