by MBC News | Aug 5, 2022 | Current News
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...
by MBC News | Aug 5, 2022 | Current News
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...
by MBC News | Aug 5, 2022 | Current News
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...
by Joel Willick | Aug 5, 2022 | Current News
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...
by MBC News | Aug 4, 2022 | Current News
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 MBC News | Aug 4, 2022 | Current News
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...
by MBC News | Aug 3, 2022 | Current News
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...
by MBC News | Aug 3, 2022 | Current News
Lac La Ronge Indian Band (LLRIB) membership have voted to make some changes to the band’s elections act. In a media release sent out Wednesday morning the First Nation announced that voters had accepted five amendments to the elections act. The amendments...
by MBC News | Aug 3, 2022 | Current News
By: Julia Peterson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The StarPhoenix Pride Month was an exciting, vibrant time in Saskatchewan, with flag raisings, parades and rainbow-spangled events taking place almost every day in June. But during the other 11 months of the...
by MBC News | Aug 3, 2022 | Current News
Syphilis numbers in Saskatchewan are going in the wrong direction. Last week Indigenous Services Canada announced that the number of cases in the province has increased from where they were in 2019 by roughly 900 per cent. Northern Inter Tribal Health Authority...
