Ballet Jörgen, a professional dance company based out of Toronto, entertained a sold out crowd in La Ronge on Tuesday. Ballet Jörgen was brought to town through a partnership between the Tri-Community Dance Club and the La Ronge Arts Council. They performed a two-hour show called Sleeping Beauty in front of a...

Lac La Ronge Indian Band member Molly Ratt has a new art gallery on exhibit for the month of March at the Alex Robertson Public Library. Entitled The Wonders of Nature, the exhibit encompasses eight acrylic artworks showcasing the landscape of Northern Saskatchewan. This marks the second time Ratt has been featured in ...

The attendance rate at La Ronge's Churchill Community High School has become such a concern the principal has taken to social media to address students and parents. On Tuesday, Kristianna Mercredi went live on Facebook to let the community know how bad the situation is. In an interview with larongeNOW, she explained th...

The Métis Nation of Saskatchewan is calling the Agreement in Principle between the Île-à-la Crosse Boarding School Survivors' Committee and Canada an "historic step." This comes following survivors two-decades-long call for recognition. According to the agreement, there will be up to $27.3...

Métis Nation-Saskatchewan (MN-S) has plans to develop eight tiny homes in northern communities. That's according to a request for proposals (RPF) issued by MN-S for the construction, site preparation, and transportation of tiny homes at five locations in Northern Region 2. While a contractor will be responsible ...

A University of Saskatchewan professor is calling the discovery of wild pigs near Weyakwin alarming and shocking. On Saturday, land user and Montreal Lake Cree Nation member Jarret Nelson was checking his traps along the northwest shore of Montreal Lake when a wild pig emerged from the forest. Surprised by the encounte...

A day after announcing the arbiter's decision to allow class complexity in the Provincial Collective Bargaining Agreement, Samantha Becotte, president of the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation said she and her members are still digesting the news. "We're definitely pretty excited about it. I mean, there's still a l...

Saskatchewan's premier unveiled the province's response to tariffs from the United States on Wednesday afternoon.The tariffs went into effect on Tuesday, adding a 25 per cent tax on Canadian goods imported by the U.S.A., with a lower, 10 per cent tariff on Canadian energy. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a suit...

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it's seen an increase in complaints about items mislabelled as products of Canada or missing information about their country of origin.The federal organization enforcing labelling standards on food products says the rash of complaints have come in the last few months, when Canad...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed...Trump tells Congress tariffs benefit U.S. as commerce secretary floats idea of dealU.S. President Donald Trump has launched a North American trade war but a key member of his team floated that a compromise could materialize today. ...

Saskatchewan brewers are raising a glass to local support - and bracing for a financial hangover - as new U.S. tariffs threaten to drive up costs for the industry.A 25 per cent tariff on Canadian and Mexican goods, along with a 10 per cent levy on Canadian energy, took effect at 12:01 a.m. ET Tuesday."Tariffs, 25 ...

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe has called a meeting of his cabinet for Wednesday to consider the provincial government's reaction to the U.S. tariffs imposed on Tuesday.Moe said in a social media post that U.S. President Donald Trump "was simply wrong" when he says that Canada has nothing the U.S. needs, addi...

The wrestling season is nearly over with regionals finishing up this weekend. There are three regions in the province, Saskatoon, Regina, and the rest of the province gathers in a different location each year to settle their region. The top four wrestlers in each weight class secure a spot in provincials next weekend i...

"We wish them all the best." Those are the words of La Ronge Mayor Joe Hordyski when asked for his reaction about the Ice Wolves relocating from the Mel Hegland Uniplex to the Lac La Ronge Indian Band's Jonas Roberts Memorial Community Centre (JRMCC) next season. "I know we haven't been able to promise a...

The La Ronge Ice Wolves are relocating to the Jonas Roberts Memorial Community Centre (JRMCC). That's according to a media release issued Wednesday by the JRMCC, stating the team's board has approved the relocation of the team. The move takes the club less than ten minutes from La Ronge's Mel Hegland Uniplex to the nea...

Danika Dureau has been one of the key pieces as the Battlefords Sharks have seen quite the turnaround in a few short seasons.The U18 Female AAA team leads the pack with a league-best 21-2-2-2 record this season - Dureau's second season on the team."The whole team, we're all kind of filled with the drive and passio...

Alaskan Sean de Wolski is the Canadian Challenge winner in the eight-dog, 160-kilometer (100 mile) race. The eight-dog race began Wednesday at noon and he crossed the finish line at approximately 2:20 p.m. on Thursday. The race was split in two with mushers spending the night in La Ronge on Wednesday, before heading ou...

Garrick Schmidt is the winner of the Canadian Challenge premiere 10-dog, 322-kilometer race. Schmidt, a resident of Wawota, Sask., left La Ronge on Tuesday at 10 a.m. under extreme cold warning with the temperature hovering around -30 C with a -35 C wind chill value. By Wednesday at 5 p.m., five of the mushers who ente...

A record number of homicides were reported to Saskatchewan RCMP in 2024, over half in northern Saskatchewan and many of the people charged were on release conditions. Numbers released on January 28 show that the provincial force investigated 38 homicide cases with 40 victims, an increase of 27 per cent from 2023. The i...

December 16, 2024 TO: THE MEMBERS OF PETER BALLANTYNE CREE NATION TAKE NOTICE that a Ratification Vote of the Voters of Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation pursuant to the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation Treaty 6 Agricultural Benefits Settlement Agreement Voting Guidelines (the "Voting Guidelines") will be held t...

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Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Architects say Trump's tariffs 'blows a complete hole' in continental trade agreement The architects of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement say U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war has crossed a line that essentially wipes out the...

VANCOUVER - The dozens of Kentucky bourbons listed on the BC Liquor Stores website range from a two-ounce bottle of Maker's Mark, priced at $5.29, to a $2,400 bottle of Woodford Reserve, aged in cognac barrels and presented in a crystal decanter. What they all have in common is the "currently unavailable" des...

WASHINGTON - The Canadian and Mexican architects of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement say Donald Trump's trade war has crossed a line that essentially wipes out the continental trade pact, as experts suggest the president's actions are meant to rattle America's closest neighbours ahead of a mandatory review. Canada's ch...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly's office confirms she has briefed Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney on President Donald Trump's tariffs days ahead of Sunday's leadership vote this week. Carney is the presumed front-runner for the party's leadership and could become prime minister as early a...

WINNIPEG - The interim leader of Manitoba's Progressive Conservatives has apologized to the families of two slain First Nations women for declining to search a landfill for their remains. Wayne Ewasko made the apology in the house to the families of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran, following last week's discovery of p...

OTTAWA - Police say they have made more than 100 arrests and laid more than 300 charges in a major national child exploitation operation. Representatives of the RCMP and other police forces provided an update today on a project aimed at protecting children from sexual abuse. RCMP Insp. Matthieu Girard told a news confe...

WASHINGTON (AP) - An appeals court has removed the head of a federal watchdog agency in the latest twist in a legal fight over Republican President Donald Trump's authority to fire the special counsel. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia sided with the Trump administration in allowing the immediate r...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Robin "Rocky" Myers to life in prison Friday, saying there were enough questions about his guilt that she could not move forward with his execution. Ivey said Myers, 63, will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibili...

PARIS (AP) - French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday he will confer with European allies on the idea of using France's nuclear deterrent to protect the continent in the face of threats from Russia. France is the only nuclear power in the European Union. Macron, in a televised address to the nation, described Ru...

WASHINGTON (AP) - White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that U.S. officials have had "ongoing talks and discussions" with Hamas officials. Confirmation of the talks in the Qatari capital of Doha come as the Israel-Hamas ceasefire remains in the balance. Leavitt declined to provide detail...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration on Wednesday moved to drop an emergency abortion case in Idaho in one of its first moves on the issue since President Donald Trump began his second term. The Justice Department filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, which was originally filed by the Biden administration, in a ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles County said Wednesday that it's suing Southern California Edison, alleging the utility's equipment sparked January's Eaton Fire, which destroyed more than 9,400 structures and killed 17 people in the Altadena area. The lawsuit seeks to recover costs and damages sustained from the blaze th...