Representatives from the provincial government were in Onion Lake Cree Nation on Tuesday announcing 15 new addiction treatment spaces. The new detox beds will be added to the Cree Nation’s Ekweskeet Healing Lodge to help members access withdrawal management...
Jonathan Pasap, chief of White Bear First Nations. Ryan Kiedrowski, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter By: Ryan Kiedrowski, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The World-Spectator White Bear First Nations Chief Jonathan Pasap says new federal loan guarantees,...
La Ronge RCMP says it stopped a shipment of hard liquor going north. Mounties pulled over a vehicle on Highway #102 Sunday, where they seized approximately 50 bottles of hard liquor, 48 coolers and a box of wine. It is alleged the liquor was being transported to the...
Preparations are being made to possibly include Northern Saskatchewan as a team in the Arctic Winter Games. The circumpolar games are held every two years and includes teams from Northern Alberta, Yukon, The Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Northern Quebec, Alaska,...
A federal public safety official was in Pelican Narrows this week meeting with community leaders over increasing crime rates. In the past several months, leaders from Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation have raised the alarm over the escalation of crime in the northern...
A public inquest will take place next month into the 2015 death of an Indigenous boy. Haven Dubois was discovered unresponsive in a creek in the east end of Regina on May 20, 2015. A bystander performed resuscitation efforts on the 14-year-old. He would later die in...
UPDATE 2:16 PM April 26. RCMP confirm the victim is Brianna Hayes of Oxbow. Tyler Japp has been charged with second-degree murder and will appear in court on Monday. —– RCMP are investigating a homicide in the RM of Moose Mountain. Police said an...
International aersospace company Boeing has provided a sizable investment into the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technology. On Wednesday, Boeing announced a $17 million investment to expand SIIT’s Saskatoon Aviation Learning Centre. Boeing was initially part...
Heritage Canada is providing $1.2 million over the next two years to support Indigenous broadcasting in Saskatchewan. Missinipi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) is getting $600,000 in fiscal years 2024-25 and 2025-26 to continue to produce radio programming in English,...
Northern MP Gary Vidal will not run in the next federal election. The five-year MP for the lone northern riding of Desnethé–Missinippi–Churchill River stated several reasons for not running in the potential October 2025 election. He said the electoral boundaries of...
