A 35-year-old woman is facing charges after an incident this past Tuesday on Big Island Lake Cree Territory. Pierceland RCMP said late Tuesday night they were called to a home in the community about a serious assault. When police arrived they found an adult man who...
Authorities are investigating a death at the Pine Grove Correctional Center Wednesday. Corrections officials said a 23-year-old woman on remand was found unresponsive in a common area of the facility shortly before 1 PM. The woman was transported to Victoria Hospital,...
The first trials have been set for the accused in the death of Megan Gallagher. Gallagher, went missing in Saskatoon in 2020 and her remains were found in the south Saskatchewan River nearly two years later. Her family will now have to wait another year for the first...
Saskatchewan RCMP said homicides in the province have risen 50 percent in the past five years. Statistics released by the Mounties suggest that in 2019, homicides; including murder and manslaughter, were at 20. In 2023 there were 30 homicides. The peak came in 2022 at...
By: Sam Laskaris, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com He’s back. After recovering from off-season shoulder surgery, which forced him to miss the first couple of months of the season, Ethan Bear is back in the National Hockey League. Bear, a member of...
The Prince Albert Grand Council (PAGC) is mourning the loss of a longtime staff member. In a media release sent out New Years’ Eve the tribal council announced that Shirley Henderson, the chair of the PAGC Women’s Commission for over 25 years passed away...
Saskatchewan Polytechnic, the Prince Albert Model Forest and Filipino non-profit organization Daluhay, Daloy ng Buhay (flow of life), are embarking on a new applied research project aimed at helping Indigenous communities contribute to environmental policy and...
This year in the northwest can be described as resilient. Early in the year, hundreds of residents were forced to evacuate south to seek refuge in Regina, Saskatoon and other communities as wildfires and poor air quality from local smoke threatened people’s health. A...
A man from Prince Albert is celebrating a big scratch off ticket win. Emilie Tessier has won $500,000 off of a Countdown to Christmas scratch off ticket. The P.A. man bought the winning ticket at the Shell station in Hague, a community north of Saskatoon. The big win...
(RCMP provided photo of Dec. 18 Pelican Narrows search warrant event.) Several people in Pelican Narrows are facing drugs and weapons charges, following an RCMP safety blitz in that community last week. In all, eight people were arrested between Dec. 15 to 19. Braden...
