Stories by Steve Bonspiel

Kahnawake Peacekeepers are asking the public for help as stills from a video camera at Plaza 138 were released, with two males fleeing the scene quickly.

Derek White’s 99 Resto Bar was among the businesses completely destroyed in the fire. (Courtesy Jeremy White) A massive blaze early last Thursday morning burned the majority of Plaza 138 to the ground and saw over 60 firefighters and five neighbouring fire departments answer the call for help.

Bigger and better is understatement to describe the second annual Karonhiaráhstha’s Winter Wonderland. (Photos by Steve Bonspiel) What do you get when you put together 15 gorgeous Christmas trees, over $50,000 in prizes and a wonderful event to honour a lost little one?

A fire that burned for two days was finally put out by Mother Nature, however the next day it reignited.

Roxann Whitebean is one of the many diagnosed with breast cancer, and advises all to get regular check ups, as Breast Cancer Awareness Month runs in October.

This morning the community will gather to honour residential school survivors and remember the ones who never came home. Orange Shirt Day, an initiative started a few years ago in BC and based on a story from residential school survivor Phyllis Jack-Webstad, is as important a day as any other.

(Jessica Deer, The Eastern Door) “I was angry, real angry,” said Kevin Myiow, after the trailer he had been living in since February 2015 caught fire and was completely destroyed.

Courtesy Gail Chamberlain, Konwenni Jacobs Another wave, so to speak, of Onkwehón:we from the north arrived this week at Standing Rock, North Dakota, where protectors of the land have been pepper-sprayed, attacked by security and dogs, and continue to build up support from across Turtle Island against a $3.8 billion pipeline.

Few community members stopped by Saturday to witness the dismantling of something that has been a part of Kahnawake's history for so long.

A tanker carrying raw alcohol lost power and hit the North Wall Monday morning that drew crowds of onlookers to check out the scene.