Our lead story: tensions return to the waters off southwestern Nova Scotia as Mi'kmaw lobster harvesters and federal fisheries officers collide.APTN

Our lead story: the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) releases more details about a fatal Sept. 17 interaction between Blood Tribe member Jon Wells, 42, and several Calgary police officers. . . . . . . . . Interstitial music: ZapSplat.comAPTN

Our lead story: the family of Ronald Skunk—the Mishkeegogamang First Nation man whose death is now under investigation by Ontario's police watchdog—express concerns about interactions with police and paramedics in Pickle Lake ON three days prior to his death. . . . . . . . Interstitial music: ZapSplat.com…

Our lead story: along with fellow residents of Southbank BC, the parents of 6-year-old Oaklynn Schweder—the shoeless, non-verbal girl who’d gone missing for over three days—are relieved to find her safe and sound Sunday evening. . . . . . Interstitial credit: ZapSplat.comAPTN

Our lead story: an extensive 4-day search, including RCMP and Canadian Rangers, for 6-year-old Johnson Redhead of Shamattawa Cree Nation in northern Manitoba comes to a tragic end when his remains are located Sunday evening. . . . . SFX: ZapSplat.comAPTN

Our lead story: advocates discuss the impacts of the sudden pause of the Canada-Manitoba Housing Benefit on youth aging out of care and people at risk of homelessness. . . . . . . SFX source: ZapSplat.comAPTN

Our lead story: an Indigenous person is confirmed dead upon contact with Canadian police—the seventh such fatality in the last two and a half weeks—Blood Tribe member Jon Wells, 42, following an interaction with Calgary police. . . . . . Sound Effect: Bryan Jesus De Los Santos Breton from PixabayAPTN

Our lead story: family of an alleged male victim of the late Johannes Rivoire—the Catholic priest charged but never tried for sexual abuse of four children in Nunavut—want RCMP to release their father's records, a call echoed this week in Question Period.APTN

Our lead story: Nunavut MP Lori Idlout successfully calls for an emergency debate in the House of Commons Monday evening about the recent deaths of six Indigenous people over 11 days after encounters with law enforcement.APTN

Our lead story: the family of 34-year-old Steven "Iggy" Dedam—recently shot and killed by RCMP on Elsipogtog First Nation, and one of six fatal Indigenous encounters with police in Canada since August 29—says he was met with excessive force instead of help by officers.APTN

Our lead story: Over the past two weeks, there have been six deaths involving interaction with law enforcement–and all of the deceased are First Nations citizens.APTN

Our lead story: Manitobans pay their respect to the late Grand Chief Cathy Merrick.APTN

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.APTN

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

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

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

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

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

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

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