by MBC News | Jun 7, 2021
By: Jessica R. Durling, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter-Humboldt Journal A petition of over 400 signatures was presented to La Ronge council for a dirt bike track to be built in the community. The initiative was co-started by Pauline Quandt and her 16-year-old...
by MBC News | Jun 7, 2021
The Nakoda language will be offered to high school students starting this fall. The curriculum was developed by the Carry the Kettle Nakoda Nation linguistic experts and knowledge keepers, and was previously offered as a locally developed course. The First Nation...
by MBC News | Jun 7, 2021
By: Nick Pearce, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The StarPhoenix The shocking discovery of unmarked graves in Kamloops, B.C., has resurfaced an old dispute about whether a northern Saskatchewan children’s home is a residential school. Lac La Ronge Indian...
by MBC News | Jun 7, 2021
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations is joining a growing list, calling on the Pope to apologize on behalf of the Catholic Church for its contribution to residential schools. A majority of the state-funded, institutions were operated by Roman Catholic...
by MBC News | Jun 7, 2021
(By:Jessica R. Durling, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Humboldt Journal) Had it not been for the community response during the outage that left 9,000 residents around La Ronge without power, the results could have been lethal, according to Steve Brown, the...
by MBC News | Jun 4, 2021
The La Ronge Ice Wolves have added to their roster for the coming season. Friday the team announced the signing of 2002 born defenceman Brady Stange. Stange, who is from Red Deer Alta last played with the Fernie Ghostriders in the KIJHL where he had five points...
by MBC News | Jun 4, 2021
By: Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com The National Action Plan to end violence and systemic racism against Indigenous women and girls and gender-diverse people comes in a variety of parts and a 12-month wait for developing an...
by MBC News | Jun 3, 2021
The former Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission said the federal government has known of possible unmarked graves at residential schools, but chose to ignore that. Murray Sinclair testified during an emergency House of Commons Committee on the TRC Final...
by MBC News | Jun 3, 2021
Two women from the La Ronge area have been charged after a traffic stop and vehicle search was conducted by RCMP on Tuesday. 39-year-old Reena McCallum of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band and 27-year-old Erica McKenzie of La Ronge were charged with possession of cocaine...
by MBC News | Jun 3, 2021
A 13-year-old girl has been charged with two counts of aggravated assault in La Ronge. The charges are the result of an investigation into the assault of a six-year-old and eight-year-old that happened Saturday evening in Bells Point on the Lac La Ronge Indian Band...
