An overwinter fire in the South Slave region that posed no threat to communities, cabins, or infrastructure and has been extinguished. The fire was discovered through infrared scanning and patrols about seven kilometres north-northeast of Enterprise and 27 kilometres south of Hay River on the far side of the river…
Red Dress Day is observed on May 5 each year to raise awareness of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirit Plus People in Canada. Also known as National Day of Awareness, it will be solemnly observed in several ways across the NWT, with a major march through the…
Health-care facilities in Yellowknife are undergoing a major procedure to create a new campus of care model that allows for co-location of services with the $350-million Stanton Territorial Hospital, which opened in May 2019. If you are used to visiting your family doctor at the Primary Care Centre downtown or…
K’ıyelı Tourism Services in Łı́ı́dlı̨ı̨ Kų́ę́ First Nation (Fort Simpson) has received $25,000 from the federal government to support Indigenous tourism. Mary Jane and Gilbert Cazon are the owners of K’ıyelı Services. The Cazons began their business in 2010, initially offering interpretation and language services. As part of their commitment…
Chef Kaitlyn White-Keyes has a dream to combine her love of food — sticky sweets are a specialty — with a facility to help those recovering from addiction in Yellowknife and area. Food brings people together, says the formally trained chef, which could also prove to be the ice-breaker needed…
The doors to a new childcare facility have officially opened in Deh Gáh Got’îê First Nation (Fort Providence) this week. The children’s centre is called the Gotsų Margaret Vandell, Nezų Ts’ųdaa K’éodhı́h Gok’é GóɁǫ which means Elder Margaret Vandell, place of good child care. Vandell is celebrated for her contributions…
The Yellowknife RCMP are asking for assistance in locating 20-year-old Lance Lafferty who was last seen in downtown Yellowknife on April 23. Lafferty is described as being 5’4” with black hair and brown eyes. He was last seen near the CIBC bank and is known to frequent the downtown area….
An Alberta man on bail for drug charges after a March bust in Inuvik has now been charged with trafficking in the same Beaufort Delta community. RCMP credit a pro-active drug trafficking investigation for the seizure of 37 grams of cocaine and the arrest of two Edmonton men. Thirty-year-old Abubakar…
Nineteen youth took over the NWT Legislative Assembly last week. No, it was not a protest. The annual Youth Parliament attracted grade 9 and 10 students from the 19 ridings across the territory for several days of acting the role of an MLA and learning about the workings of the…
There are currently two active hotspots in the Northwest Territories. Both of these are holdover smoulderings outside of Fort Smith in the South Slave region, and Fire NWT states will be extinguished by crews with help from a helicopter. Those are the only fires detected and first to date this…