....................HAMILTON, ON. - A Hamilton newspaper is fighting an attempt by the OPP to get photographs taken at a recent Six Nations blockade in Caledonia, Ont. held in support of Mohawk's in a standoff with OPP at Tyendenaga. OPP claim in court documents, they were threatened by an aboriginal man on an ATV on HIghway 6 April 26. One officer claimed he was so concerned for his safety he considered drawing his gun. Police executed a search warrant Tuesday and seized photographs taken by Spectator photographers covering the blockade.The OPP want forensic identification officers to analyze the photos for the purpose of extracting single images of the persons involved. The Spectator is fighting the seizure. ..........OTTAWA, ON. -Children on native reserves across Canada are eight times more likely to wind up in under-funded, poorly tracked foster care that appears to be failing them, says the auditor general.In a report tabled Tuesday in Parliament, Sheila Fraser urgently calls on Ottawa and the provinces to work with First Nations on badly needed improvements. .........WHITEHORSE, Yukon-Managers at Northern Native Broadcasting Yukon in Whitehorse say financial hardships have forced the broadcaster to lay off six television employees. NNBY receives the bulk of its funding,$.5 million,from Heritage Canada each year and requests to have that amount increased have been ignored, chairman Stanley James said Tuesday. ..........PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.-A First Nations band near Prince Rupert is angry their village wasn't notified after a diesel spill from a loaded barge.Chief Coun. Harold Leighton of Metlakatla said the diesel spilled in the middle of the band's shellfish harvesting area and during its seaweed harvest season...........THUNDER BAY, On. - One man is dead after being struck by a vehicle in North Spirit Lake and another is facing a second-degree murder charge.The Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service in the community about 180 kilometres north of Red Lake say they were notified of the incident Sunday night.Residents took a 19-year-old man to the community's medical centre, where he died from his injuries. Bruce Rae, 39, of North Spirit Lake First Nation, is charged with second-degree murder. Provincial police say that shortly after Rae's arrest, shots were fired at the Nishnawbe-Aski police detachment but no one was injured..........FREDERICTON, N.B.-Three First Nations men from New Brunswick convicted of hunting at night will not be able to appeal their case to the Supreme Court of Canada. The high court has dismissed their application without giving any reasons, which is customary.........SYDNEY, N.S.-A former Cape Breton Mi'kmaq chief has lost his bid to be released from jail pending his appeal of a sexual assault conviction. A Nova Scotia Appeal Court justice has ruled that Wilbert Marshall's request for release was ``completely devoid of merit.''Marshall, 39, was the chief of the Chapel Island First Nation until his conviction in January of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old woman in Dartmouth. He was sentenced in March to three years in prison...........Check back for news as it happens...............