by MBC News | Jun 7, 2021 | Current News
Meadow Lake RCMP are asking for the public’s help after a fire in the city this past weekend. The Meadow Lake and District Arena was destroyed by fire Saturday evening. In a post on the city’s Facebook page, it was explained the arena hosted a range of events...
by MBC News | Jun 7, 2021 | Current News
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 | Current News
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 | Current News
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 | Current News
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 | Current News
(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 | Current News
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 | Current News
The missing boater has been found safe, according to search officials. — Search efforts are ongoing for a 19-year-old boater who went missing on Sikachu Lake Thursday morning. Lac La Ronge Indian Band chief Tammy Cook-Searson is part of the boaters going out to...
by MBC News | Jun 4, 2021 | Current News
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 | Current News
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...
