First Nations

Fort à la Corne wildfire doubles in size

The wildfire burning in the Fort la Corne Forest east of Prince Albert doubled in size overnight. It was estimated at 5,303 hectares.The fire started May 8 but jumped a guard Thursday fanned by high w...

May 15, 2020

Lare Pahtayken’s unconventional path to the Tisdale Trojans

May 1 was "signing day" for many teams in the Saskatchewan Midget AAA Hockey League (SMAAAHL) to reveal their player commitments for the 2020-21 season.The Tisdale Trojans announced most of their new ...

May 15, 2020

Checkpoints remain unchanged after calls with the province

In a letter sent to Saskatchewan's Chief Medical Health Officer Dr. Saqib Shahab earlier this week, Northern Chiefs said several complaints have been made against security officers for unfair and disr...

May 14, 2020

Waterhen Lake FN reconsiders calling state of emergency

Waterhen Lake First Nation will not be issuing a state of emergency today after the community grappled with a rash of suicide attempts within the last month and the recent death of a 14-year-old girl....

May 13, 2020

COVID-19 spread slowing in La Loche and Clearwater River

La Loche Mayor Robert St. Pierre and Clearwater River Dene Nation Chief Teddy Clark along with the area director of Mtis Nation Saskatchewan provided a non-medical community update to residents in the...

May 12, 2020

Bumpy start as LLRIB rolls out electronic voting

Monday was the first day Lac La Ronge Indian Band (LLRIB) voters could do so electronically, but it didn't start as smoothly as organizers had hoped.Electronic voting commenced May 11 at 8 a.m. and wi...

May 12, 2020

Complaints about 'arbitrary' nature of lockdown boundary

There's increasing frustration for some people who are unable to get to communities for leisure purposes within the large Northern Saskatchewan Administration District (NSAD), which is currently under...

May 12, 2020

Addiction support to La Loche amid continued outbreak

The northern village of La Loche is seeing a slight tapering in its active cases of COVID-19 since last week as support for alcohol-dependent people is made available. Dr. Rim Zayed, Medical Health Of...

May 11, 2020

School division launches Cree language program

A Cree kindergarten program, the first of its kind in Saskatchewan Rivers Public School Division, is scheduled to begin in September at John Diefenbaker Public School.The first class will comprise of ...

May 06, 2020 Kindergarten learning materials in Cree. (submitted photo/Victor Thunderchild)

Northern fishers seek aid as COVID-19 shuts down market

The fishing industry across northern Saskatchewan is facing an uncertain year because of COVID-19. With restaurants closed there are no orders of their product coming in, hundreds of livelihoods are i...

May 06, 2020