Land. Language. Culture. Those are the themes at Dene Nahjo’s election forum that kicked off on Sunday evening. The first forum featured all three candidates from Yellowknife North: Rylund Johnson, Jan Vallilee, and incumbent Cory Vanthuyne; both candidates for Great Slave: Patrick Scott and Katrina Nockleby; and only two candidates…
Dennis Nelner, a 54-year-old man from Fort Simpson, has confirmed for CKLB that he is the victim of a shooting by an Environment and Natural Resources officer in that Dehcho community on Friday night. Nelner was taken to Stanton Territorial Hospital in Yellowknife, reportedly by Medevac. A photo of him…
A well-known Yellowknife bartender said her goodbyes on the weekend as she bid an emotional farewell to the city and the bar she has called home for the past 14 years. Jenna Conrad has tended bar at the Raven Pub in downtown Yellowknife since 2005. She says she came here…
(UPDATE) For the second time in a week, Hay River RCMP have appealed for the public’s help to locate a missing teenage boy, only to have him found safe and sound hours later. Hay River RCMP asked for the public’s assistance Monday in locating 14-year-old Dallas Casaway-Gray. In a news…
If Lianne Mantla-Look had listened to a doctor in Edmonton, she may have come back to Yellowknife without ever treating her stomach cancer. Instead, she stuck around and was convinced there was something wrong with her. She had to fight to have a series of biopsies done—more than 50 cross-sections…
RCMP are investigating after a man was shot by Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) officer in the Dehcho community of Fort Simpson. Mounties stated in a news release Saturday that it happened on Friday when the ENR officer shot at a bear that was within the town’s boundary and was…
A former Northwest Territories cabinet minister says the incoming legislative assembly must do a better job settling land claim agreements with Indigenous governments as well as speed up the self-government process. However, Fort Smith businessman Michael Miltenberger says anyone who thinks working on these issues with the federal government would…
Dene National Chief Norman Yakeleya says he was “shocked” and “disappointed” at seeing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in brownface makeup. But he added if you look at the broader institution of the federal government, it wasn’t so surprising. “Ever since the Europeans first stepped on our country, our lands,” said…
A Fort Good Hope man has been sentenced to five years in a southern penitentiary after he pleaded guilty to attacking a couple with an axe in that Sahtu community in 2018. Christopher Shae, 49, bowed his head as he was sentenced for aggravated assault in Supreme Court in Yellowknife…
(UPDATE) RCMP now say a Hay River teenager has been located safe and sound. They had asked for help in locating the teen Thursday morning but by Thursday afternoon police say he had been found. The 14-year-old boy was reported missing to Mounties Wednesday after having last been seen on…