CLCFN threatens toll booth near Keeley Lake
If they can’t have the water, they’ll take the road.
According to Canoe Lake Cree First Nation chief Francis X. Iron, his community plans to put a toll booth in place at the access road to Keeley Lake off Highway...
Former M.L. resident makes Paralympic swim team
From tragedy can come triumph.
Former Meadow Lake resident Nikita Ens is an example of this, as seven years after a motor vehicle collision changed her life forever she will now proudly take her place as a member of Team...
M.L. nurse reflects on changes since COVID-19
May is Nursing Month, but for nurses and other health care staff throughout the province, it’s been more than a year of learning and adapting because of the ongoing pandemic. Recently, Meadow Lake’s Tara Heit spoke with Northern Pride...
RCMP searching for two missing youth
Beauval RCMP are looking to the public for assistance in locating 18-year-old Dakota Opikokew and 16-year-old Clarissa Martell, both of Canoe Narrows.
Opikokew is described as being approximately 6’4” tall and weighs approximately 170 pounds with brown hair and brown...
Brenden Yew arrested
On Sunday (May 16) around 5 a.m., Meadow Lake RCMP were investigating a mischief complaint in the city when members saw a male known to RCMP with arrest warrants running from a residence.
After a short foot chase, 26-year-old Brenden...
Graffiti believed to be gang-related
On May 11 shortly before 7 p.m., Meadow Lake RCMP stopped a vehicle after it had left a residence known for gang activity. The male driver was a suspended driver and subsequently arrested and searched. Police seized several grams...
Woman still active at 100 years of age
At 100 years young, Meadow Lake area resident Hilda Yablonski doesn’t plan on slowing down any time soon.
Yablonski, who grew up near Craven, SK, moved to the Cabana district southeast of Meadow Lake with her husband, Frank, and today...
Players receive their own soccer balls
One small gesture can change a child’s life forever.
Just ask Lindsay Scott, a local soccer coach who is extremely proud of the Meadow Lake and District Youth Soccer Association’s decision to provide each and every one of its athletes...
Long-time school bus drivers call it a career
After more than four decades on the job, the careers of two school bus drivers in Loon Lake have slowed to a halt.
Earlier this year, husband and wife drivers Ken and Pat Prosser officially retired from busing students to...
Schools plan for modified grad ceremonies
What’s playing at the local drive-in?
While the response to this question might normally be the title of the latest Hollywood blockbuster, the most common reply this year is, ‘Grad 2021’.
As things currently stand, graduation ceremonies will indeed be going...