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…
A woman has been rescued safely after she got lost hiking north of Yellowknife on Ranney Hill Trail, near Vee Lake Road, off the Ingraham Trail. According to an RCMP news release, the 38-year-old woman was found last night in that area by a police dog. Police say she was…
Willard Hagen has resigned as the deputy minister of Lands for the Northwest Territories. Hagen, originally from Inuvik, had been the Lands department’s top bureaucrat since he was appointed to the position in May 2016. It comes after Hagen directed a Facebook comment at Kevin O’Reilly, the incumbent MLA for…
(UPDATE) Two men, one from the Sahtu community of Tulita, the other from Fort Smith have been charged with child pornography offences. Police say the two cases are not connected. According to a news release from the Mounties, back on September 16, Fort Simpson RCMP, with the help of Tulita…
The latest album from renowned Yellowknife musician Carmen Braden is set to drop on Friday, Sept. 27. The album is entitled “Songs of the Invisible Summer Stars.” A news release states it’s being released on the Centrediscs label on all major audio digital distribution systems, hard copy compact disc (CD)…
It appears a Yellowknife woman, charged in connection with two armed convenience store robberies in the city earlier this year, will remain in custody at least until her preliminary hearing which is set for Dec. 11. Cynthia Lafferty, 20, appeared in court Tuesday in Yellowknife via video from the women’s…