Vaccine roll out for young kids underway in far north

Vaccine roll out for young kids underway in far north

The health authority serving the Athabasca region is working to get children between the ages of five and 11 vaccinated. Athabasca Health Authority (AHA) CEO Allan Adam said they have started administering the new children’s vaccines and added they have been seeing...
YWCA looks to Regina City Council for Healing Lodge funding

YWCA looks to Regina City Council for Healing Lodge funding

The YWCA Regina has approached the City for financial help in constructing a healing lodge and ceremony space within its new building. A new center in the downtown would cost $54 million, with the healing lodge being $4 million of the total cost. “YWCA Regina serves...
Missing Wollaston Lake snowmobilers found dead

Missing Wollaston Lake snowmobilers found dead

Two men from Wollaston Lake have been found dead after they were reported missing to police Tuesday. RCMP received a report Tuesday of two overdue snowmobilers who had left to get wood from Larson Lake, a nearby lake, the previous day. Police joined local volunteers...
MN-S names new COO

MN-S names new COO

A man born and raised in Prince Albert and a former consultant of Indigenous economic development will be taking over the role as Chief Operating Officer of the Métis Nation-Saskatchewan. Matt Vermette will be the Métis Nation’s new COO after Louise Simard...
RCMP investigate suspicious death on Red Earth Cree Nation

RCMP investigate suspicious death on Red Earth Cree Nation

RCMP says an investigation into a suspicious death on Red Earth Cree Nation is underway. Mounties say officers responded to an altercation at a home in the community early Tuesday morning. Few details have been released on the alleged altercation, but RCMP says one...
La Ronge elects Klassen as new town councillor

La Ronge elects Klassen as new town councillor

La Ronge has elected a familiar face to town office. Matt Klassen won the town’s by-election Tuesday with 125 votes. The by-election was held to fill the spot of the late Hugh Watt. Klassen was a councillor for the town from 2016 to 2020. He ran for mayor during...
UPDATE: Charges laid in suspicious death in Sandy Bay

UPDATE: Charges laid in suspicious death in Sandy Bay

UPDATE Sandy Bay RCMP have charged a 23-year-old man in relation to the death of another man from the community. Nicholas David Paul Bear has been charged with second degree murder in relation to the death of Nickison Bear. Nicholas Bear made his first court...
Program aims to train First Nations water treatment operators

Program aims to train First Nations water treatment operators

By: Nick Pearce, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter,The StarPhoenix When Jerome McDonald flew south to help provide safe drinking water for his community, he left his newborn behind. This year, McDonald left his life and family in Fond du Lac to join the kanātan...