by MBC News | Aug 31, 2023 | Current News
The Lac La Ronge Indian Band has launched an athletic association aimed at increasing community activities. The association will plan and coordinate activities to correspond with the school calendar. “We need to see more positive activities in our communities,” said...
by MBC News | Aug 31, 2023 | Current News
By: Marc Lalonde, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The federal government settled with a pair of First Nations over claims from the past where land was either misappropriated or outright taken away from those communities. One claim that was resolved involved the...
by MBC News | Aug 30, 2023 | Current News
Guardians of the North, a television show highlighting wildland firefighters and First Nations first responders is set to return for Season 2. The television docuseries follows wildland firefighters and dedicated First Nation responders in Saskatchewan’s...
by bryanorthner | Aug 29, 2023 | Current News
Leaders from the English River First Nation along with many supporters are speaking after ground penetrating radar recently located over 90 unmarked graves near the former Beauval Residential School. The First Nation said 79 of the graves are believed to be children...
by bryanorthner | Aug 29, 2023 | Current News
A legal battle is on the horizon, as Saskatchewan Indigenous leaders are signaling a court challenge to the Natural Resources Transfer Agreement of 1930 (NRTA) and provincial legislation the Saskatchewan First Act. Chiefs, Tribal Council leaders and the Federation of...
by MBC News | Aug 29, 2023 | Current News
Public meetings are taking place in the Far North, hearing from residents on their concerns of their local road systems. Officials with the Ministry of Highways and Public Works and Athabasca Basin Development met Monday in Black Lake, where residents and leadership...
by bryanorthner | Aug 28, 2023 | Current News
The Prince Albert Grand Council (PAGC) Gathering of Nations is now underway in Prince Albert. The gathering is set to go until Wednesday with most activities taking place at the Chief Joseph Custer Reserve near the Victoria Hospital. Sheryl Kimbley, special events...
by MBC News | Aug 28, 2023 | Current News
(Photo courtesy of Dakota Ray Hebert. Facebook.) By: Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com Dakota Ray Hebert is one of Canada’s hottest new comics and is featured on the fourth season of CBC Gem’s New Wave of Standup. “It’s very...
by bryanorthner | Aug 28, 2023 | Current News
The Saskatchewan Medical Association (SMA) is working to get more doctors to rural and remote communities. One of the initiatives being used to do this involves bringing medical students to communities and allowing them to tour medical facilities and other sites of...
by MBC News | Aug 25, 2023 | Current News
A La Ronge-area man is facing weapons and drug charges following a police raid in that community Thursday. RCMP executed a search warrant on a home in the 100th Block of Far Reserve Road, seizing a handgun with the serial number defaced, approximately 4 oz. of...
