Tag Archives: Crime & Courts

Battlefords RCMP was the busiest detachment in 2023 when it came to homicides.Saskatchewan RCMP shared some of its 2023 crime statistics last week, focusing on the high number of murders and manslaugh...

It's no secret that crime rates continue to trend upwards across Saskatchewan.It's gotten to the point that some communities have started discussing whether or not to set up a Citizens on Patrol Progr...

A series of hearings this week at Court of King's Bench in Prince Albert will lay the groundwork for a murder trial scheduled to start in the fall.Roy Lasas, a member of Mistawasis First Nation, is fa...

The last person accused in the Damian Moosomin murder case will not spend any more time behind bars.On Friday, Justice Heather MacMillan-Brown found 34-year-old Jannay Blackbird not guilty of second-d...

Turtleford RCMP are investigating an ATM theft following a break and enter at a Paradise Hill business. On Thursday morning, two vehicles and four people were involved in the theft. According to polic...

It's going to be harder for people who've been arrested for a crime to get bail.That's because changes to the country's bail system, which were approved last year, officially came into effect on Thurs...

A man was taken to hospital following what Pierceland RCMP called a "serious assault" on Big Island Lake Cree Territory.The incident happened on Tuesday and a 35-year-old woman was arrested and charge...

The Saskatchewan RCMP is reporting a 50 per cent increase in murders and manslaughters over the past five years - and the Mounties say nearly half of the people charged were in the justice system befo...

A man who was charged in the death of Boyd Firingstoney was sentenced to nine years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter recently. Javon Moosomin, 24, was originally charged with second deg...

The family of a woman shot by an officer in Edmonton during a wellness check says her death was unnecessary, as the number of police shootings across Canada show little sign of relenting over the past...