The Coroners Office and the RCMP are investigating the discovery of a body on the Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation. Mounties said they believe the remains of Isaiah Arcand were located Friday. He was reported missing June 29. Police do not suspect the death is...
The recent changes which Lac La Ronge Indian Band (LLRIB) membership voted to make to the band’s election act are being met as good news by one observer. Ken Coates, a professor at the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of...
Indigenous leaders are raising concern of child welfare in the sudden disappearance and safe location of Dawn Walker and her son Vincent Jansen. The two were found safely in the state of Oregon, accused of entering the United States illegally. Walker is the current...
In the interest of public safety, Saskatchewan RCMP advises the residents of Mont Nebo, Leask, Mistawasis First Nation, Shellbrook, Prince Albert and surrounding communities that an offender considered to be at high risk of re-offending sexually and/or violently has...
Saskatoon Police said missing persons Dawn Walker and her seven-year-old son Vincent Jansen were found safe Friday morning. Homeland Security claims the pair were located in Oregon City, Oregon shortly before noon Sask. time. “Investigators were recently successful in...
A search for a missing mushroom picker is underway in northeast Saskatchewan. 74-year-old Lois Chartrand went missing Thursday morning while picking mushrooms along the Hanson Lake Road 30 kilometres north of Smeaton. RCMP say they have been in spotty contact with...
Dr. Ken Coates, a celebrated expert on Indigenous relations and policy, says policy around Indigenous identity continues to be complex. However, he says new policy at the University of Saskatchewan carries a “legitimacy” that is “quite significant.” The university...
Northern families are being forced to travel to Saskatoon or Regina to access child and mental health and psychiatric in-patient services as new patient admissions in Prince Albert have been halted. The Saskatchewan Health Authority said it is addressing a staffing...
By: Julia Peterson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The StarPhoenix Jude Ratt wants more people in Saskatchewan to talk about suicide. “Suicide is not a taboo thing to talk about,” he said. “I’d like people to talk about it. The more we talk...
Prince Albert RCMP are looking for three suspects after a shooting on Little Red Reserve last weekend. According to RCMP a car was parked in the driveway of a home on the reserve and had two people inside when another car pulled up and fired on them. The two males in...
