La Ronge woman wins $1 million playing VLT

La Ronge woman wins $1 million playing VLT

A woman from La Ronge is $1 million richer after winning on a VLT earlier this week. Mary Cassie of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band was playing Vault Breaker at Eddie’s Place on Monday when she won the grand jackpot. “I sat at the VLT machine as my husband played pool. I...
Métis Land-Based Healing Lodge Planned

Métis Land-Based Healing Lodge Planned

By: Carol Baldwin, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Wakaw Recorder In the summer of 2023, Métis Nation-Saskatchewan purchased two adjacent river lots that had been advertised for sale in the Rural Municipality of Fish Creek just north of the junction of...
Family Kinship Fair comes to PAGC Urban Services Centre

Family Kinship Fair comes to PAGC Urban Services Centre

Michael Oleksyn/Daily Herald A t-shirt making station was one of the features of the Family Kinship Fair at the PAGC Urban Services Centre on Saturday. Michael Oleksyn, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A group of SIIT students took over the PAGC Urban Services...
La Ronge woman charged with manslaughter in alleged hit and run

La Ronge woman charged with manslaughter in alleged hit and run

A La Ronge woman is facing a manslaughter charge, following a hit-and-run death in September 2021. RCMP allege that Christine Charles struck a 22-year-old man on Frances Roberts Street. The victim from Sucker River later died in hospital. Charles was also charged with...
Teachers to stage another one day strike Monday

Teachers to stage another one day strike Monday

(Photo of La Ronge teachers striking earlier this week. Credit David Smith.) Saskatchewan teachers are headed back to the picket line on Monday for another one-day strike, Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation (STF) president Samantha Becotte announced on Thursday. This...
La Ronge woman charged with manslaughter in alleged hit and run

Charges laid in Little Red River altercation

Two people are facing weapons charges following an altercation in the community of Little Red River Sunday. Mounties allege that three people, two women and a man got into an argument, in which the man pointed a firearm at one woman and stole some money. When officers...
La Ronge woman charged with manslaughter in alleged hit and run

Murder charges laid in death of man on Onion Lake Cree Nation

Police are announcing murder charges in the death of a man on the Onion Lake Cree Nation on July 1, 2022. Dennis Cardinal and Kimberly Thunderchild appeared in court today charged with first degree murder of Abdo Grayman. Officers found Grayman injured in a camper...
La Ronge woman charged with manslaughter in alleged hit and run

Three people arrested following house fire in Air Ronge

Three people are facing drugs and weapons charges following a house fire in Air Ronge last week. Police were called to a home on Chief James Roberts Street Tuesday afternoon, where officers allegedly observed drugs and paraphernalia inside the home. Mounties claim...
A man from Pinehouse Lake is $250,000 richer

A man from Pinehouse Lake is $250,000 richer

A lucky man from Pinehouse Lake couldn’t believe it when he scanned his LOTTO MAX ticket on the Lotto Spot! App. Alex Ross is the winner of the December 22 EXTRA draw, walking away with $250,000. “I had to scan it a couple times just to make sure!” he laughed. “I...