Crime & Courts

Sask. RCMP ‘proud’ of JSCN response, reviews recommendations

While the review of the Saskatchewan RCMP's response to the James Smith mass stabbing gave 36 recommendations on how to improve, the division's commander said she's proud of their work."Despite the ma...

Jun 06, 2024

RCMP responds to JSCN and Myles Sanderson inquest recommendations

About three months after a pair of inquests into the 2022 stabbing attacks on the James Smith Cree Nation and in Weldon, the Saskatchewan RCMP is responding to recommendations made by the juries and p...

Jun 06, 2024

RCMP report reveals police actions, recommendations after James Smith Cree Nation, Weldon murders

An internal review on the RCMP's response to the mass murder on James Smith Cree Nation (JSCN) and in Weldon is being released today, with a summary of 36 recommendations and effective practices Mount...

Jun 06, 2024

Civilian motorist aids police by ramming suspect vehicle

A dangerous situation for RCMP on Hwy 40 near Neilburg, SK Thursday could have ended much worse had it not been for the help of a civilian.The passing motorist disabled a vehicle that had been strikin...

May 31, 2024

Trump becomes first former U.S. president convicted of felony crimes

Donald Trump has been convicted in his New York hush money trial, a landmark jury verdict making him the first former American president to be found guilty of felony crimes in the nation's nearly 250-...

May 30, 2024

Walk for Missing and Murdered Indigenous People draws large crowd despite rain

Noel Moosuk remembers dying in hospital during an operation in 1994. "I left the earth, I had gone to the next world," he said. Moosuk came across a graveyard where he met an old white man who offered...

May 30, 2024

Three people charged in Meadow Lake drug bust

A 39-year-old man from Flying Dust First Nation is one of three people charged by Meadow Lake RCMP following a traffic stop on Highway 55 last week. A 33-year-old woman and 57-year-old man from Meadow...

May 27, 2024

Board orders deportation for trucker in horrific Humboldt Broncos crash

The truck driver who caused the horrific bus crash involving the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team has been ordered to be deported.The decision came this morning at an Immigration and Refugee Board ...

May 24, 2024

Search for truth goes on, regardless of killer Pickton’s fate, say victims’ advocates

VANCOUVER - Advocates for alleged victims of B.C. serial killer Robert Pickton say they remain focused on getting justice for the women, as Pickton lies in a Quebec hospital in a coma after being atta...

May 24, 2024

Man responsible for making and possessing child pornography, designated long term offender

Editor's: The following story contains graphic details that readers may be sensitive too.A man who admitted to making and possessing child pornography for the purpose of harm reduction has received a ...

May 23, 2024