The Prince Albert Grand Council is commending the Prince Albert Police for removing an officer from active duty, while serious charges before the courts proceed. Earlier the week, an unidentified 21-year veteran officer was charged with criminal negligence causing...
By: Carol Baldwin, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Wakaw Recorder Next weekend the Back to Batoche grounds will be filled to overflowing with families from all over Canada as Métis people come to Saskatchewan for the biggest Métis cultural celebration in the...
RCMP have charged a Black Lake man with attempted murder, following a shooting earlier this week. Mounties were called to Disain Road early Wednesday morning to find an injured man. Police said two people approached the victim, where a firearm was discharged. The...
The Northern Village of Beauval is preparing to open a retail recreational-use cannabis operation. Beauval Development Inc. has acquired a donated building, and will be renovating it over the next couple of months to act as a temporary use for its retail store, called...
By: Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com The Assembly of First Nations has moved one step closer to conducting a possible 10-year forensic audit. Chiefs on the second day of the AFN’s annual general assembly in Halifax July 12 voted in...
The Prince Albert Police Service (PAPS) announced Thursday they had arrested and charged a 55-year-old man in relation to the death of Taya Sinclair. PAPS said Michael Smillie was arrested at Wednesday in Saskatoon and appeared in Saskatoon Provincial Court Thursday...
Prince Albert Police are continuing to investigate and are renewing calls for public assistance for information regarding the death of Jordan Ballantyne. On July 13, 2018, at 9:07 p.m., police and EMS responded to a call of a person in the backyard of a home in the...
By: Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com Just the other day, said a young woman from the Peepeekisis Cree Nation in Saskatchewan, she was assaulted while attending the Assembly of First Nation’s annual general assembly in Halifax. The...
RCMP in Black Lake are investigating after a man was serious injured. Police say in the early Wednesday in the early morning hours two men approached another man, police say a firearm was discharged. A man was taken to hospital with what are being called serious...
An RCMP investigation continues into a fatal collision, between a vehicle and a person on the Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation. Mounties responded to a report of an injured man just before midnight Tuesday. A 25-year-old man from Debden would be declared deceased at the scene...
