by MBC News | Feb 15, 2023 | Current News
A pair of Coroner’s Inquests looking in to the mass stabbings at James Smith Cree Nation are being tentatively set for January of 2024. In a media release Saskatchewan’s Chief Coroner Clive Weighill said they were hoping to hold both inquests in the spring...
by MBC News | Feb 15, 2023 | Current News
Update: On February 17, 2023, Nathan Piche was located deceased, approximately one kilometre from where he was last seen. La Loche RCMP are seeking help in locating Nathan Piche. He was last seen walking in the Garson Lake area in the late evening Sunday. Piche is...
by MBC News | Feb 14, 2023 | Current News
The lawyer for one of nine people charged in the death of a 30-year-old Saskatoon woman says she will formally plead guilty next month to committing an indignity to human remains. The lawyer told Saskatoon provincial court on Tuesday that Jessica Badger will make the...
by MBC News | Feb 14, 2023 | Current News
Editors Note: This story was amended on Feb. 15 to include a response from Indigenous Services Canada. Drinking water quality is currently a cause of concern for members of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band (LLRIB) living on Little Red River Reserve. People living in the...
by Joel Willick | Feb 14, 2023 | Current News
Orano is making an investment to help increase the number of women working in their northern Saskatchewan operations and their company as a whole. The uranium company announced a $1 million donation to Saskatchewan Polytechnic’s Women in Trades and Technology...
by MBC News | Feb 14, 2023 | Current News
The last of three men charged with illegally harvesting a woodland caribou in Northern Saskatchewan has been fined and banned from hunting. Zane Layman recently pleaded guilty in La Ronge provincial court to unlawful hunting and using a vehicle to chase wildlife. He...
by MBC News | Feb 14, 2023 | Current News
By Sam Laskaris, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com Patrick Mitsuing, a member of Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation in Saskatchewan, played a key role at yesterday’s Super Bowl, the National Football League’s championship final. No, Mitsuing did not...
by MBC News | Feb 13, 2023 | Current News
Treaty Day celebrations are now wrapped up at Montreal Lake Cree Nation. The festivities started Thursday with opening ceremonies and wrapped up on Sunday. Part of the celebrations saw the chiefs of the Woodland Cree nations, Lac La Ronge Indian Band (LLRIB), Montreal...
by MBC News | Feb 10, 2023 | Current News
The Federal Appeals Court is upholding a lower court decision to annul the election results of the Chief and a Councillor of the Red Pheasant First Nation. Chief Clinton Wuttunee and Councillor Gary Nicotine were found to have engaged in serious electoral fraud under...
by MBC News | Feb 10, 2023 | Current News
Photo of Colten Boushie On the five-year anniversary of a trial verdict that sparked an uproar across the nation, the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) says they are standing in solidarity with the family of Colten Boushie. On Feb. 9, 2018,...
