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...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
La Ronge RCMP have released a sketch of an individual accused of assaulting a woman at a home on Vickers Crescent last Saturday. Police say the assailant broke into the Air Ronge home early Saturday morning, assaulted the woman and fled. The victim was treated in...
The provincial government is renewing a three-year funding agreement with the Ile a la Crosse Friendship Centre Community Support program for youth. The Community Support program works to provide youth with education and employment opportunities in the community and...
By: Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com The Wabun Tribal Council is no longer seeking a temporary injunction to delay implementation of Bill C-53, federal legislation that will recognize Métis self-government in Ontario, Alberta and...
Fire Creek Store at One Arrow First Nation. Carol Baldwin, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter By: Carol Baldwin, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Wakaw Recorder August 11th One Arrow First Nation proudly opened their very own Fire Creek grocery store across...
Two people are charged in relation to the death of a man who was reported missing in Prince Albert in September of 2020. In a media release sent out Thursday morning Prince Albert Police said 45-year-old Kyle Charles and 28-year-old Harley Bear were both charged with...
