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Gwich’in Tribal Council selects interim grand chief during election dispute

Michael Greenland, president of the Ehdiitat Gwich'in Council, will serve as courts rule on challenge to August's election


Michael Greenland has been appointed interim grand chief of the Gwich’in Tribal Council (GTC) by its board of directors. As president of the Ehdiitat Gwich’in Council, Greenland was a director of the GTC and will serve as interim grand chief at least until to the results of last month’s election…


Nine who remain at 51st Street homeless encampment fear RCMP arrival at any time

Territorial government’s deadline to vacate the Aspen Apartments parking lot this week pushed back to Friday


Tents lay abandoned, clothes hang on posts and embers remain hot as the last residents of Yellowknife’s homeless encampment 51st Street await their fate. Nine people remain at the site, as the other dozen or so there at the start of the week have found other accommodations as the nights…


Łı́ı́dlı̨ı̨ Kų́ę́ First Nation chef revitalizes Indigenous cuisine on APTN

With food prices going up, Denia Baltzer says it’s time to get back to a more self-sustaining way of living


A member of Łııdlı̨ı̨ Kųę First Nation is making her television debut as the co-host of Back to Roots, an APTN program that delves into Indigenous food, ingredients and life experiences. Her name is Denia Baltzer and she has been behind the stove since she was eight years old. Baltzer…



Investigation underway after Giant Mine water spill

Roughly 40,000 litres of waste water containing arsenic has spilled at the Giant Mine site in Yellowknife earlier this month. Although there are no immediate impacts to the surrounding area, Meghan Housley, senior communications officer for the Giant Mine Remediation Project says a final and more detailed report is expected…



South Slave senior busted after cannabis grow op found in yard

Hay River septuagenarian charged with possessing more than legal limit of four cannabis plants


A 70-year-old Hay River man has been charged under the Cannabis Act after RCMP discovered “a large number of cannabis plants” on his property during an unrelated August call. Last Friday, Mounties executed a search warrant and seized 40 cannabis plants, which is ten times what is currently permitted under…


Homeless encampment in Yellowknife to come down starting today

Authorities will work with residents there to secure housing options; area residents complained of filth and crime


“I’m at a breaking point. I’m out of options. But today we’re supposed to hear news from the GNWT or the City … about finding us a new location or public housing if possible.” – Encampment resident Colton Migwi The homeless encampment on 51st Street in Yellowknife is scheduled to…


Pierre Poilievre unpacks parcel of promises during Yellowknife stop

Axe the Tax rally also heard the Conservative's Opposition leader's plans for housing, health-care, addictions and gun control


It was billed as an Axe the Tax rally, and Conservative Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre gleefully chopped away at the ruling Liberal Party’s record on Sunday, just days after the NDP pulled its support for the minority government. In addition to promising to kill the maligned Carbon Tax — which…


GTC looks for acting grand chief; electoral dispute now before courts

Petition and Facebook page also launched this week, alleging 'the democratic process of the election is in peril.’


The politically heated 2024 Gwich’in Election of a Grand Chief will now simmer in the courts, after presumptive winner Frederick Blake Jr. was granted a judicial review this week of the Gwich’in Tribal Council’s decision to toss the results of the August 19th visit to the polls by beneficiaries. Incumbent…