Royal Canadian Mounted Police

HELENE LAKE – Update: On July 5 at approximately 5 p.m., the canoer who went missing on Helene Lake was located deceased by Saskatchewan RCMP’s Underwater Recovery Team in the water near the area where he was last seen. RCMP say his family has been notified and their thoughts are with them during this difficult time. Unity RCMP and […]

RCMP say two separate crashes within a few hours of each other on highways in northwest Saskatchewan have claimed the lives of two women and three young children. Police say a 48-year-old woman who was driving a van, along with two boys aged 5 and 6, died when the vehicle collided with a truck early Friday afternoon […]

LA RONGE — “Hit! Hit! We need help!” yelled police as they radioed for back-up in La Ronge after being shot at, while simultaneously yelling to suspects “Get out of the car!” court heard. Justice Dorinda Stahl, in her May 27 written decision, sentenced Terrence Arnold Daigneault in Prince Albert Court of King’s Bench to 4,108 […]

SASKATOON – Greg Fertuck has been found guilty of his wife Sheree Fertuck’s murder almost a decade ago. The body of the mother of three has never been found. She was last seen leaving her family’s farmhouse near Kenaston on Dec. 7, 2015, to haul rock to a nearby gravel pit. In April 2016, police determined […]

The year that has passed since a bus crash killed 17 seniors headed to a Manitoba casino on a bright late-spring day has been one of grief, community support, a slow return to normal and, for some, a long road to recovery. It has also left unanswered questions about the genesis of the horrific crash […]

A report into how Mounties responded to a mass killing and manhunt in Saskatchewan has found some communication problems but nothing that significantly impacted the outcome. Police captured Myles Sanderson three days after he killed 11 people and injured 17 others on the James Smith Cree Nation and in the nearby village of Weldon. Sanderson, […]

Amidst a surge in criminal activity across Saskatchewan, specialized law enforcement units are stepping up to tackle the challenge. Consisting of highly-trained officers, the Crime Reduction Team (CRT), Trafficking Response Teams (STRT), and the RCMP Warrant Enforcement and Suppression Team (WEST), have made significant strides to curb the escalating crime rates. “Because of these teams, there […]

Jury deliberations have begun at a Saskatchewan coroner’s inquest into how a man who stabbed and killed 11 people and injured 17 others died in police custody.  Robert Kennedy, the coroner overseeing the inquest, told jurors Thursday they will have to determine whether Myles Sanderson intended to kill himself when he consumed a toxic amount […]

A judge has sentenced a man who ran over and killed an RCMP officer in Saskatchewan to 18 years in prison. Alphonse Stanley Traverse of Winnipeg pleaded guilty last year to manslaughter in the death of Const. Shelby Patton. Patton, 26, had pulled over a suspected stolen truck in the town of Wolseley, east of […]

A Saskatchewan coroner’s inquest is expected to hear more from officers and paramedics who responded as a mass killer was taken into police custody.  Myles Sanderson had been on the run for several days when police caught up to him on Sept. 7, 2022. Jurors were shown video from RCMP dashboard cameras of a high-speed police pursuit […]