A Yellowknife man has been sentenced to a year in jail after an attack that left another man with a serious brain injury. Daniel Hache, 23, was handed his punishment on Tuesday in Supreme Court in Yellowknife. Court heard that he was camping with the victim and the victim’s girlfriend…
Nunavut MP Hunter Tootoo has announced he will not be seeking re-election this fall. In a statement on social media, Tootoo said, “I appreciate very much the encouragement and support I have received from Nunavummiut all across the Territory over the past months. But after much consideration, I have made…
The office of the NWT Chief Public Health Officer has issued a public health advisory for residents of Norman Wells and Fort Good Hope due to wildfire smoke in the area. The smoke is likely coming from a wildfire about 90 kilometres south-east of Tsiigetchic. The advisory says other communities…
There was high drama in Yellowknife Tuesday morning as RCMP investigated two suspicious packages – one downtown, the other near the airport. RCMP cordoned off the Northwestel building on Franklin Avenue at 52 Street just after 10:00 a.m., after a suspicious black suitcase was left outside the office tower. RCMP…
In the evening of Sunday, July 14, two American tourists in the Hanbury Lake area, 480 kilometres east of Yellowknife, found a grizzly bear shredding their foldable canoe. They sent a distress call to the International Emergency Response Coordination Centre, a global search and rescue dispatch centre, which relayed the…
If you want to have your say on how the N.W.T. should put a price on carbon, then show up Thursday evening at the Legislative Assembly. The Standing Committee on Government Operations is hosting a public meeting for feedback on the proposed carbon tax. The meeting comes a couple of…
Fort Chipweyan RCMP continue to investigate after a single vehicle collision resulted in a fatality last Friday. RCMP officers from Fort Smith, NWT and Fort Chipewyan Alberta responded to the scene of the rollover on Friday afternoon, just 34 kilometres south of the NWT/Alberta border in Wood Buffalo National Park….
Order of Canada Member Arlene Hache has announced she is running for MLA in Yellowknife Centre in the Oct 1 territorial election. In her announcement she states that downtown is her home where she has worked and lived for 35 years. Hache states she is a leader with solutions of…
A Yellowknife judge is to release her decision Friday as to whether a one-year mandatory minimum jail sentence for child luring violates a man’s constitutional rights. Ex-Yellowknife gymnastics coach Ricky Lee Sutherland, 50, and his lawyer argued in court Monday that it would violate his rights under the Canadian Charter…
An ex-board member of the Fort Simpson housing authority is calling out the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation for dissolving the board that oversees the community’s housing authority. The housing corp recently fired the manager of the authority, and appointed their own housing corporation employee in their place. The housing corporation…