Yellowknife RCMP say they are seeking to speak with the person who stole a van in the city over the weekend. They say the blue, 1996 GMC Safari van was stolen at about 6:45 pm on Saturday from the owner’s residence. Police say for privacy reasons they won’t say where…
The MLA for Tu Nehde-Wiilideh says the territorial government must put the brakes on bulk buying at the liquor store to combat bootlegging in the Northwest Territories. Tom Beaulieu says when folks buy a full case of booze from the liquor store – everyone knows that the bottles are going…
The Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Mackenzie Delta wants officials from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) to do something about what he says is an increase in grizzly bear numbers in the Hamlet of Aklavik. Frederick “Sonny” Blake raised the issue in the Legislative Assembly…
(UPDATE) RCMP in the Northwest Territories said Tuesday that they believe their phone systems are working once again. “Northwest Territories RCMP advise that, to the best of their knowledge, the phone systems for local RCMP detachment “1111” numbers are operating normally. This includes call forwarding for detachments to the RCMP…
Indigenous cultural camps, road upgrades, trails development, wastewater and solid waste management projects across the Northwest Territories all received a financial boost Tuesday from the federal government as well as various communities and Indigenous groups. MP for the NWT, Michael McLeod along with Alfred Moses the territorial minister for Municipal…
Multiple western and Russian media outlets are reporting that Russian Su-27 warplanes forced away a NATO F-18 jet after it approached an aircraft carrying Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu over international waters today. TASS, a Russian news agency reports that Shoigu’s plane was flying from Russia’s Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad…
You may soon need to be a little older to buy cigarettes in the NWT The Standing Committee on Social Development agreed with proposed legislation that would increase the age of purchase from 18 to 19-years old. The committee agreed with the change despite citing arguments for the age to…
A Yellowknife man, who failed to show for day two of his original trial has been found not guilty of sexual assault. 35-year-old Alden Lennie was acquitted in Supreme Court in Yellowknife last Friday. He was charged in 2017 about two years after a woman complained to RCMP that she’d…
Members of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation have given Chief Edward Sangris a fourth mandate as chief. According to preliminary results from returning officer Lynda Commerford, Sangris received the most check marks on the ballot for chief of Dettah with 133 votes, a post he has held since 2007. Former…
(UPDATE) RCMP in the Northwest Territories said Tuesday that they believe their phone systems are working once again. “Northwest Territories RCMP advise that, to the best of their knowledge, the phone systems for local RCMP detachment “1111” numbers are operating normally. This includes call forwarding for detachments to the RCMP…