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Province gives environmental approval to diamond mine project
If you can wait a while to propose, there's a chance you could be slipping a little piece of Saskatchewan onto that special someone's finger. The province announced Thursday a proposed diamond mine ha...
Oct 25, 2018 Workers do underground sampling at the site of the proposed Star-Orion South diamond mine, located about 65 km east of Prince Albert, Sask. (Star Diamond Corporation)
New name announced for North Commuter Parkway
A list of more than 400 potential names for a new bridge set to open this fall has been pared down to one. A ceremony held Thursday morning revealed the North Commuter Parkway will be named in honour ...
Jun 21, 2018 A ceremony was held on June 21, 2018 to announce Chief Mistawasis Bridge as the new name for the North Commuter Parkway. (Chris Vandenbreekel/650 CKOM)
Sixties Scoop hearing criticized for time limits, structure
Time was a major theme at an unorthodox federal court hearing held Thursday at Saskatoon's Radisson Hotel. The hearing was for victims of the Sixties Scoop - which saw thousands of Canadian Indigenous...
May 11, 2018 The Michaelangelo Ballroom at Saskatoon's Radisson Hotel hosted a hearing Thursday related to the court settlement for victims of the Sixties Scoop. (Chris Vandenbreekel/650 CKOM)
Saskatoon mayor, chief urge calm ahead of Stanley verdict
As a jury in Battleford deliberates the verdict in Gerald Stanley's murder trial, a message from Saskatoon's mayor and the Chief of the Saskatoon Tribal Council calling for unity and reconcilia...
Feb 09, 2018 Mayor Charlie Clark and Saskatoon Tribal Council Chief Mark Arcand sign a memorandum of understanding to build a hydroelectric power station in Saskatoon on Nov. 15, 2017. (Bryn Levy/650 CKOM)
Woman missing after fire on Sask. First Nation
A Saskatchewan First Nation that endured a tragic fire in 2015 is waiting to hear word on a 32-year-old woman missing after another blaze this weekend. RCMP and firefighters from Loon Lake were called...
Jan 08, 2018
MMIWG inquiry begins hearings in Saskatoon
Commissioners for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) arrived in Saskatoon Monday to set up for three days of testimony from families and survivors. More ...
Nov 21, 2017 Delores Stevenson shares the story of her niece Nadine Machiskinic at the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls inquiry in Saskatoon on Nov. 21, 2017. (Chris Vandenbreekel/650 CKOM)
FSIN chief says he was racially profiled by RCMP
A Saskatchewan political leader is accusing RCMP of racial profiling. Chief Bobby Cameron with the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) said an RCMP officer recently pulled him over on th...
Sep 27, 2017 Bobby Cameron, chief of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations.
Fire concerns prompt partial evacuation in northern Sask.
A community in northern Saskatchewan is evacuating some of its most vulnerable residents due to wildfires. Pelican Narrows, located about six-and-a-half hours' drive northeast of Saskatoon, is home to...
Aug 29, 2017 Forest fire smoke near the junction of Highway 106 and Highway 135 in northeast Saskatchewan on Aug. 29, 2017. (Highway Hotline/Facebook)
FSIN blasts RCMP over release about shooting
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) is criticizing the RCMP's handling of information in the shooting death of Colten Boushie. Boushie, 22, was shot and killed on a farmy...
Aug 12, 2016 Bobby Cameron, chief of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations.
Elementary school employees on Sask. First Nation facing charges
Two elementary school employees on the Beardy's Okemasis First Nation were recently terminated. George Gamble, formally of Chief Beardy Memorial Elementary School, is facing charges of ...
Apr 14, 2016
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