Education

Search and Rescue teams visit White City area for training

Ian McNeil's first mission as a search and rescue volunteer in La Loche 37 years ago was to find a missing friend he had met just one month earlier.That friend had gone canoeing on a hunting trip and ...

Mar 09, 2019 Search and Rescue volunteers from all across Saskatchewan came to the White City area on March 9 for a training exercise. (Joseph Ho/980 CJME) : Glenn Hicks

KidsFirst North hosting literacy carnivals throughout northern Saskatchewan

KidsFirst North will launch a literacy carnival tour this month after receiving a $50,000 grant from the Ministry of Education.The events are being organized by community development manager Tina Robe...

Mar 07, 2019 There will be literacy carnivals in 11 northern communities starting this month. (Derek Cornet/larongeNOW Staff)

Churchill students snowshoe to remote cabin for land-based education

Students at Churchill Community High School in La Ronge are being educated on subjects they can't learn in any classroom. Earlier this week, Grade 7 students were the first group from the school to jo...

Mar 06, 2019 Students have been visiting Churchill Community High School's cabin this week. (Facebook/Churchill Community High School)

'A meaningful and worry-free life': RCMP present End Gang Life project

With the End Gang Life pilot project concluding soon, La Ronge RCMP community program officer Alex Turcotte wants students to know anyone is susceptible to joining a gang and there is a way out. In re...

Mar 05, 2019 Community program officer Alex Turcotte has been leading the End Gang Life presentations. (Derek Cornet/larongeNOW Staff)

Focus on distracted drivers in March

The traffic safety spotlight in March is on distracted driving.SGI said in a news release that 87 people lost their vehicle for a week because of cell phone tickets last year, the most SGI has seen si...

Feb 28, 2019 SGI is highlighting the dangers of distracted driving. (Cam Lee/northeastNOW)

'Enjoying the moment': Fish 4 Life Hunter Bay fly-in trip making lifelong memories

It was an experience like no other for Grade 6 students at Gordon Denny Community School as they had the honour of participating in this year's Fish 4 Life fly-in trip to Hunter Bay. The first group o...

Feb 19, 2019

Musician invited back to Stanley Mission as pilot project ends

Students and community members of Stanley Mission were so impressed by the musical teachings of Eliza Doyle they invited her to come back. Doyle, who spent the last six weeks living in Stanley Mission...

Feb 11, 2019

Wanuskewin Park seeks global status with new CEO

A woman with a background in Aboriginal education, human resources and the retention of Indigenous talent will lead the growth of one of Saskatchewan's most prestigious national sites and also hopes t...

Feb 06, 2019

More indigenous culture needed in schools, says teachers' union

This article was updated at 2019-01-31 03:53.The union representing Saskatchewan's teachers says the Ministry of Education needs improvement when it comes to the allocation of people and resources wit...

Jan 30, 2019