Warning: This story discusses domestic violence and homicide. It’s a well-known fact in the Northwest Territories that Indigenous women suffer disproportionate rates of domestic violence. Now there’s a Canada-wide study with a chapter in the NWT that is hoping to speak to survivors of “extreme domestic violence,” and friends and…
It’s the season for moose to be on the move across the Northwest Territories, and for once the territorial government’s numbers and Indigenous traditional knowledge is lining up. The moose population in the Dehcho region is healthy and stable, according the most recent survey from the GNWT’s Department of Environment…
A mass walk out is planned for Friday in Yellowknife by students and other environmentally conscious individuals to protest a lack of action on climate change. According to a news release, students from Yellowknife schools and other concerned residents will walk out of classrooms, homes and workplaces to join in…
Yellowknife RCMP say one man has been charged and another man was sent to hospital following an attack in the city’s downtown core on Tuesday night. According to an RCMP news release, officers responded about 9:30 pm to a reported assault in the area of 50 Avenue and 50 Street….
Another man is recovering from a gun shot wound in the Dehcho Region, this time a hunter from Fort Liard. RCMP in that community are calling a it, “a serious but a non-life threatening injury.” In a press release issued Tuesday, police say that they were called about the incident…
Yellowknife RCMP say they’ve recently investigated two unrelated incidents involving a noxious substance, believed to be bear spray, and have made one arrest RCMP stated in a news release that at approximately 8:15 PM, Friday, police received a complaint unrelated to the noxious substance, at an apartment building on Gitzel…
Monday evening saw round two of Dene Nahjo’s election forum and featured Frame Lake candidates: Dave Ramsay and Kevin O’Reilly; Yellowknife Centre candidates: Julie Green, Thom Jarvis, Arlene Hache and Niels Konge; and for Range Lake: Caroline Cochrane and Hughie Graham. As in the first forum, the themes of the…
A former Yellowknife gymnastics coach has been sentenced to one year in jail after he pleaded guilty to child luring for sending a photo of his private parts to a teenage female gymnast he had once coached. Ricky Lee Sutherland, 50, who now lives in Ontario, was also placed on…
Yellowknife RCMP have arrested a 25-year-old woman after a man was wounded in a reported stabbing Sunday afternoon at or near Sunridge Place Apartments on 51A Avenue on the edge of the city’s downtown. Mounties stated in an email to CKLB Monday that officers responded to the area over ther…
RCMP say a man has been arrested and is facing charges after another man was reportedly shot in the community of Tuktoyaktuk Sunday evening. According to an email from RCMP, at approximately 8:50 pm on Sunday, Tuktoyatuk RCMP received a call for service about an incident involving firearm at a…