Our lead story: details are released on funeral arrangements and celebration of life events for the recently-deceased Cathy Merrick, the first woman grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs.Von APTN

Our lead story: words of condolence from provincial politicians follow Friday’s sudden death of Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs leader Cathy Merrick.Von APTN

Our lead story: Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Cathy Merrick dies on Friday after collapsing outside a Winnipeg courthouse.Von APTN

Our lead story: An update on the shooting death of a 15-year-old from the Samson Cree Nation by the RCMP.Von APTN

Our lead story: A protest was held after a First Nations woman was struck and killed by Winnipeg Police Service officers with a vehicle.Von APTN

Our lead story: A fifteen-year-old from the Samson Cree Nation in Alta. is dead after a confrontation with RCMP officers.Von APTN

Our lead story: the chief of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation tells media that cadaver dogs have found "indications of human remains" at the site of the former Mackay Indian Residential School, some 11 kms northwest of The Pas, MB.Von APTN

Our lead story: following this week’s life sentence for Jeremy Skibicki in the homicides of Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myron, Rebecca Contois and Muskode Bizihiki'ikwe / Buffalo Woman, Manitoba premier Wab Kinew lauds the actions of the victims’ families.Von APTN

Our lead story: a Manitoba judge sentences serial killer Jeremy Skibicki, the non-Indigenous Winnipeg man who murdered four Indigenous women in 2022, to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.Von APTN

Our lead story: how one of Jeremy Skibicki’s four murder victims—crimes for which he’s set to be sentenced—received her Anishinaabemowin spirit name, Muskode Bizihiki'ikwe, or ‘Buffalo Woman.’Von APTN

Our lead story: ahead of this week’s sentencing of convicted serial killer Jeremy Skibicki, the parents of Ashlee Shingoose—a missing St. Theresa Point Anishininew Nation woman whose DNA was among those found in Skibicki’s Winnipeg apartment—share her story.Von APTN

Our lead story: the province of Manitoba denies responsibility in the death of Krystal Mousseau—the 31-year-old Ebb and Flow First Nation mother who died following an attempted airlift to hospital in May 2021—in its defense against her family’s legal action.Von APTN

Our lead story: amid an ongoing labour dispute, Canada’s Minister of Labour moves to end the national rail shutdown.Von APTN

Our lead story: families at Carry the Kettle Nakoda Nation mourn the loss of 18-year-old Keilia Windigo after she was fatally shot at her birthday party Sunday in Wolseley, SK, a shooting that's resulted in multiple charges against another young CTK member.Von APTN

Our lead story: a state of emergency is declared after a series of weekend stabbings on the O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation in northern Manitoba.Von APTN

Our lead story: a northern Manitoba family is shocked to have learned a relative’s remains were actually those of someone else, a mistake the province only discovered after the family had buried the body.Von APTN

Our lead story: following weeks of pushback, the federal government reverses its decision of last month to cap spending at $500,000 for searches for unmarked graves at former residential school sites.Von APTN

Our lead story: the Bunibonibee Cree Nation becomes the fifth Indigenous community in Manitoba to fully evacuate due to wildfires this season—one of 29 First Nations similarly impacted across western Canada.Von APTN

Our lead story: the Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation in northern Manitoba wants the province to put an end to Métis harvesting in their territory.Von APTN

Our lead story: Millbrook First Nation in Atlantic Canada is but one of a number of stops for AFN National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak as part of the summer’s national chiefs dialogue on long-term child and family welfare reform.

Our lead story: two weeks ahead of the sentencing of serial killer Jeremy Skibicki—found guilty of the first-degree murders of four Indigenous women last month—one Manitoba advocacy group helps affected families and others with their impact statements.Von APTN

Our lead story: opposition continues to grow against federal cuts to funding of First Nations searches for unmarked child graves on former residential school sites.Von APTN

Our lead story: Bradley Barton, the man convicted of manslaughter in the gruesome 2011 death of 36-year-old mother of three Cindy Gladue, has his appeal dismissed by the Supreme Court of Canada.Von APTN

Our lead story: a fatal head-on collision Monday afternoon between a SUV and a minivan on Manitoba’s Highway 6 results in the death of 23-year-old Nisichawayasihk Cree mother of three Marybelle Yetman and an unidentified 42-year-old Mosakahiken Cree woman.

Our lead story: after a nearly 100-day search at a Saskatoon landfill, the family of missing Métis woman Mackenzie Trottier now knows her fate following the recent recovery of her remains.Von APTN

Our lead story: one man is dead and another in custody after last Friday’s shooting at the Pine Ridge Powwow in South Dakota.Von APTN

Our lead story: the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs calls on the federal government to “stop obstructing access” to residential school records following the release of a Senate report on Indigenous communities’ difficulty locating important documents on family members who’d died or disappeared at the institutions.…

Our lead story: Manitoba RCMP release details about the arrest of 81-year-old ex-priest Constantin Turcoane, now of Regina, SK, for the repeated sexual assault of a minor in the early 1970s in Lennard, MB.Von APTN

Our lead story: TC Energy agrees to sell a $1 billion minority stake in its natural gas pipelines to an Indigenous consortium spanning dozens of communities across three provinces—a transaction guaranteed by the province of Alberta.Von APTN

Our lead story: Brayden Bushby—the Thunder Bay man convicted of manslaughter in 2020 for throwing a metal trailer hitch at Wabigoon Lake’s Barbara Ketner from a moving vehicle—is back behind bars for violating his day parole conditions.Von APTN

Our lead story: 36-year-old Kennedy Elk—a member of the Dakota Tipi First Nation in southern Manitoba—is fatally stabbed in Winnipeg early Sunday morning.Von APTN

Our lead story: on the one-year anniversary of her disappearance, family and friends of Winnipeg woman Leah Keeper enlist the help of a community patrol to boost awareness.Von APTN

Our lead story: this week’s wildfires in Alberta destroy many of the structures in the popular tourist townsite of Jasper.Von APTN

Our lead story: the judge in the trial of Jeremy Skibicki—the admitted Winnipeg serial killer found guilty of the first-degree murders of four Indigenous women—sets a date for his sentencing late next month.Von APTN

Our lead story: families of the victims of late serial killer Robert Pickton are disappointed after a B.C. judge denies their request to intervene over the destruction of RCMP evidence.Von APTN

Our lead story: the search for the body of Stanley Peters Jr.—a Lil’wat man killed 37 years ago in what police called a hit-and-run—follows a lead as to the possible whereabouts of his remains in Mount Currie, B.C.Von APTN

Our lead story: the federal government indicates drastic cuts to its financial support going forward for searches of residential school sites for missing children and unmarked burials.Von APTN

Our lead story: the Chief Coroner of Ontario visits the Bay of Quinte to look further into the 2015 drowning deaths of two Mohawk fishermen, a case he took over after an APTN Investigates report challenged police claims the men’s boat sank under the weight of stolen fish.Von APTN

Our lead story: Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak meets with Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor Anita Neville Wednesday to seek support for the creation of a First Nations-led public inquiry into the deaths of Morgan Harris, Mercedes Myran, Rebecca Contois, and the as yet unidentified Buffalo Woman.…

Our lead story: owners of the Victoria Gold mine in north-central Yukon claim the costs of cleaning up a cyanide leak could spell the end of their operations, sparking concerns about the implications of a potential bankruptcy.Von APTN

Our lead story: healthcare tops the agenda at Monday’s meeting of Indigenous leaders and Canada's premiers in Halifax, but leaders of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami and the Métis National Council stress their concerns go beyond a single issue.Von APTN

Our lead story: the government of Manitoba announces its first official supervised drug consumption site will open in Winnipeg next year, to be led and guided by Indigenous people with lived experience using drugs.Von APTN

Our lead story: a Manitoba judge finds Jeremy Skibicki guilty of the first-degree murders of Rebecca Contois, Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran and the as yet unidentified Buffalo Woman, rejecting the defendant’s claims a mental disorder made him not criminally responsible in the Indigenous women’s deaths.…

Our lead story: a surprise emergency resolution at this week’s annual general assembly of the Assembly of First Nations sees chiefs vote to effectively nullify a previous resolution—initiated under ex-AFN leader RoseAnne Archibald—that would have subjected the organization to a forensic audit.Von APTN

Our lead story: A group of Treaty 6 and 8 Chiefs criticize the Assembly of First Nations and Canada for attempting to infringe on treaties.Von APTN

Our lead story: Suncor Energy has evacuated non-essential workers from their Firebag oilsands site due to an out-of-control fire in Fort McMurray, Alta.Von APTN

Our lead story: an investigation into the human and financial cost of the medical travel system in the Northwest Territories.Von APTN

Our lead story: The Yukon Government confirms there is evidence of cyanide contamination at the Eagle Gold Mine near the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun.Von APTN

Our lead story: The family of a missing Edmonton man found a body with the help of an Anishinaabe tracker–but it wasn’t his.Von APTN

Our lead story: After being convicted of murder half a century ago, Clarence Woodhouse from the Pinaymootang First Nation in Manitoba has been granted a new trial.Von APTN