by MBC News | Jun 22, 2022 | Current News
The Lac La Ronge Indian Band (LLRIB) has cut the ribbon at the Woodland Wellness Centre in La Ronge. LLRIB Chief Tammy Cook-Searson was joined by dignitaries from both the provincial and federal governments at the ribbon cutting event Tuesday. In her remarks the Lac...
by MBC News | Jun 22, 2022 | Current News
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations and the Anishinabek Nation are jointly calling for an extension to the federal Day School Class action Settlement. Day schools were residential schools where Indigenous students attended the school during the day, but...
by MBC News | Jun 22, 2022 | Current News
Martha McGonigle (left) and Chloe Desjarlais, students at Rossignol High School in Île-à-la-Crosse, Saskatchewan, learn to fly a drone on June 18, 2022. PHOTO BY JULIA PETERSON/SASKATOON STARPHOENIX By: Julia Peterson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The...
by MBC News | Jun 22, 2022 | Current News
A man wanted for a shooting in La Loche early Tuesday morning is considered armed and dangerous. RCMP said three people on a quad approached another man shooting an air gun. The victim was treated at hospital for non-life-threatening injuries. Keenan Sylvestre, who...
by MBC News | Jun 21, 2022 | Current News
Family, friends and the Red Earth Cree Nation are not giving up hope in their efforts to find missing Frank Young. The 5-year-old boy was last seen playing in his front yard on the First Nation April 19. Since then, an exhaustive search effort has taken place,...
by MBC News | Jun 21, 2022 | Current News
(Photo of Terrance Daigneault. Courtesy of the RCMP) RCMP are turning to the public for help in locating two men wanted in a firearms incident in La Ronge on Sunday. Terrance Daigneault who also goes by Terrance Kenny is wanted for two counts of attempted...
by MBC News | Jun 20, 2022 | Current News
The RCMP is providing more details on the situation this past Sunday where gunshots were fired at police resulting in an emergency alert for the La Ronge area. Multiple people have been arrested as a result of the incident and no injuries were reported. Mounties say...
by MBC News | Jun 20, 2022 | Current News
Karen Bird is seeking a judicial review of an Elder’s Council decision to remove her as Chief of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation. In May, the First Nation advised the public that Bird was no longer Chief for “unprofessional conduct, behaviors and lateral violence.”...
by Joel Willick | Jun 20, 2022 | Current News
A northern Saskatchewan Métis youth shared his story at this past weekend’s IndSpire awards. Tristen Durocher, from Buffalo Narrows, was a youth recipient of a 2022 award. Durocher was recognized for the Walking With Angels campaign used to raise awareness for...
by MBC News | Jun 19, 2022 | Current News
The public alert issued for La Ronge, Air Ronge and Lac La Ronge is now cancelled. The alert was issued after RCMP said some of their officers were fired on. Police said originally they were looking for two suspects. In an update on the SaskAlert App police say...
