Stories by Miriam Lafontaine

Starting next month, families in owner-occupied households will be able to apply for grants of up to $40,000 to pay toward major home repairs.

Council chiefs have decided their priorities for the next three years in office, following surveys carried out earlier this fall.

Kahnawake’s alcohol control board is still without inspection officers, even after issuing a 10-month moratorium on alcohol permits last year in protest of their demand for them going unheeded.

The Kahnawake Gaming Commission (KGC) is proposing a rewrite of the community’s electronic gaming regulation in the aim of enforcing more limits on which operators it will decide to grant permits to.

A group from the Kahnawake Environment Protection Office (KEPO) got the chance to visit the site of the future Northvolt facility earlier this month, marking its first-ever visit there since construction began in the winter.

The promoter behind a housing project proposed next door to Kahnawake was issued a warning earlier this fall by Quebec’s environmental ministry after carrying out unauthorized work in a wooded area in Chateauguay made up of wetlands.

CN Rail released a long-anticipated reconciliation action plan this week, one initially expected to be made up entirely of recommendations from its former Indigenous advisory council - that being before they all quit en masse last year.

The Kateri Memorial Hospital Centre (KMHC) abruptly went into lockdown on Tuesday after a man called the front desk saying he was prepared to come in and shoot.

Parents and guardians received a stern letter last week from the Kahnawake Education Center (KEC) reminding them there’s zero tolerance for aggressive behaviour at their schools.

The Court of Kahnawake is now one step closer to having its own judges following the release of two draft regulations to the community this week.  The court is currently presided over by a single justice of the peace.