by MBC News | Jul 13, 2023
The Prince Albert Police Service (PAPS) announced Thursday they had arrested and charged a 55-year-old man in relation to the death of Taya Sinclair. PAPS said Michael Smillie was arrested at Wednesday in Saskatoon and appeared in Saskatoon Provincial Court Thursday...
by MBC News | Jul 13, 2023
Prince Albert Police are continuing to investigate and are renewing calls for public assistance for information regarding the death of Jordan Ballantyne. On July 13, 2018, at 9:07 p.m., police and EMS responded to a call of a person in the backyard of a home in the...
by MBC News | Jul 13, 2023
By: Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com Just the other day, said a young woman from the Peepeekisis Cree Nation in Saskatchewan, she was assaulted while attending the Assembly of First Nation’s annual general assembly in Halifax. The...
by MBC News | Jul 12, 2023
RCMP in Black Lake are investigating after a man was serious injured. Police say in the early Wednesday in the early morning hours two men approached another man, police say a firearm was discharged. A man was taken to hospital with what are being called serious...
by MBC News | Jul 12, 2023
An RCMP investigation continues into a fatal collision, between a vehicle and a person on the Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation. Mounties responded to a report of an injured man just before midnight Tuesday. A 25-year-old man from Debden would be declared deceased at the scene...
by bryanorthner | Jul 12, 2023
The interim chief of the Prince Albert Police Service (PAPS) is speaking after one of the service’s officers was charged in relation to an in custody death in 2021. In a media release sent out Wednesday morning PAPS said one of their officers was charged with...
by MBC News | Jul 12, 2023
Sue Caribou, seen here at the Brady Road Landfill protest and blockade on Monday, July 10, 2023, has believed for more than 10 years that the remains of her niece Tanya Nepinak lie somewhere in the Brady Landfill, and that is why she said it was so important that she...
by MBC News | Jul 12, 2023
A Prince Albert man is facing a murder charge in connection to the Byron Bear homicide. Yesterday, Prince Albert Police arrested Jackson Henry for second-degree murder at a home in the unit block of Clarke Place in Prince Albert. Henry is the fifth person charged in...
by bryanorthner | Jul 12, 2023
The Yukon River Quest is Canada’s longest canoe race, starting in Whitehorse and continuing 715 km to Dawson City. The event was founded in 1999 by Whitehorse canoeists who felt it would be great to stage a canoe marathon. Participants wanting to take part in...
by MBC News | Jul 12, 2023
A Prince Albert Police officer is facing charges in the in-custody death of a man from Nov. 2021. It’s alleged that Saul Laliberte died at the detention facility. The unidentified 21-year member of the force is charged with criminal negligence causing death and...