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Community continues search for missing Tuk man

'We don't like to give up too soon on our membership on our people in our community,' says community searcher Tyrone Raddi


A search group in Tuktoyaktuk has no deadline for ending its mission to find community member Ernest Raymond, who has been missing since last week. The search is a community effort — with countless cooks donating food to the volunteers walking along the shores, flying drones and out in boats…


How one survivor describes her Sixties Scoop payment and hopes to help others in the North

'This cheque is real. It’s real what happened. I didn’t just make it up,' says Nadine Delorme-Simon. 


“Blood money.” That’s how Nadine Delorme-Simon characterizes the payments from the Sixties Scoop settlement. It’s also a recognition of the “cultural genocide” she had to endure as a survivor of the Sixties Scoop. Across Canada, survivors like Delorme-Simon have started receiving interim payments of $21,000 from the settlement. These are…


Inuvik man charged with attempted murder: RCMP

Aaron Kay, a 38-year-old Inuvik man, is facing charges of attempted murder, according to an RCMP press release. Police responded to a report of a stabbing in the parking lot of the Nova Apartments in Inuvik around 6:30 p.m. on Friday. A man was taken to the Inuvik Regional Hospital…


Changes made to public health order allow for some essential workers not to self-isolate

Resident flight crews and supply chain workers traveling domestically will no longer have to isolate upon return to the NWT


An easier transition from work to home is coming for NWT residents. Resident flight crews/employees and supply chain workers traveling domestically will no longer have to isolate upon return to the NWT, but any international travel will still be required to self-isolate. Amendments to public health orders have been issued…





Muskox on the menu in Fort Good Hope

A trailer filled with kitchen equipment in Fort Good Hope has become a makeshift meat processor, turning previously troublesome muskox into sausages and hamburger patties. Last week the department of Environment and Natural Resources was called into the community to deal with muskox near the airport. Instead of letting the…


Tłı̨chǫ Government says it was left out of the conversation for Rae Road tender

"The GNWT is not a government for Aboriginal people," says Grand Chief Mackenzie.


Tłı̨chǫ Grand Chief George Mackenzie says “enough is enough” and demands the cancellation of a public tender for the reconstruction of Rae Road. Tłı̨chǫ leaders say they were left out of the conversation when the Government of the Northwest Territories issued a tender for the project. In a news release,…