Residents planning to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day with an open campfire will need to rethink their plans. A fire ban has been issued for Yellowknife, effective tomorrow at noon. This fire ban prohibits open air burning within city limits, including the use of approved fire pits. Camp stoves, enclosed BBQs…
A wellbeing check in Inuvik prompted RCMP to find drugs, cash, and evidence of drug trafficking. A 27-year-old man was charged with trafficking offences. Police say they received a request to check on a person who had not been heard from for days on June 13. Upon entering the apartment,…
The wildfire at Fort Good Hope was aided with winds yesterday, moving the fire away from the community and towards a 2017 burn area. Frank McKay is the Information Officer for the fire, known as VQ001. “Our area of concern is the fire perimeter facing the community and our efforts…
Det’on Cho Management has acquired local food distributor Northbest Distributors Limited. Northbest is a full-line food-service industry distributor, since 1999 supplying food to stores, restaurants, mining camps, and institutions across the territory. Mark Lewis is president and CEO of Det’on Cho Management, the ever-growing financial arm of the Yellowknives Dene…
A Tłı̨chǫ woman is running a farm down in Alder Flats, Alberta. It’s called Hendrickson LiveStock and is home to eight pigs, 12 cattle, 80 chickens and 50 turkeys. “I enjoy it, so I’m thinking that we might get a couple more,” says Brittany Hendrickson, a 33-year-old woman originally from…
A significant increase in the price of diesel fuel over the past two years – it’s about 40-per-cent pricier – has forced the Northwest Territories Power Corporation (NTPC) to seek rate increases from the public regulator. NTPC’s application would see a 15-per-cent hike in the Thermal Zone (communities that depend…
Some erratic weather today will see the Fort Good Hope wildfire chanced upon by a thundershower, then pushed by easterly winds, followed by gusts up to 20 km/h, NWT Fire stated this morning. Frank McKay is the Information Officer for the fire, known as VQ001. “Today’s weather forecast calls for…
As firefighters and volunteers were desperately fighting to save Fort Good Hope after a campfire wasn’t extinguished, another “human caused” fire outside of Norman Wells drew crews away for a while on Sunday night. In Norman Wells, there are 225 evacuees from Fort Good Hope, whose lives were turned upside…
Under a state of emergency, the community of Fort Good Hope was evacuated on Saturday, as a blazingly fast wildfire kicked up after a campfire wasn’t properly extinguished nearby. Fort Good Hope Chief Collin Pierrot posted online throughout the weekend’s ordeal. “We did not lose any structures or buildings or…
An abandoned campfire sparked a blaze Saturday that quickly forced the evacuation of Fort Good Hope. As of 10 p.m., NWT Fire described “extreme fire behaviour,” as crews worked to keep fire from the Sahtu community of 500 people. “While the wildfire has not yet reached Fort Good Hope, it…