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Featured, Housing, News May 20, 2025

Ground breaks on new 50-unit public housing complex in Yellowknife

Building will include 25 bachelor suites and 25 two-bedroom units

Officials from Housing NWT, the City of Yellowknife, and the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) gathered Tuesday for a groundbreaking ceremony for a new 50-unit public housing complex in downtown Yellowknife. The units will be built on 50 Street, across from the Yellowknife Visitor Centre, between the Gold Range…

Featured, News, Police May 20, 2025

Twelve-year-old boy arrested after shots fired into Fort McPherson home

Firearm recovered suspected to have been used in shooting; suspect arrested without incident and faces serious charges, say police

A 12-year-old boy is in custody after an early morning shooting last week in Fort McPherson. RCMP say they responded to a report of shots fired just after 5 a.m. on May 16. A firearm had allegedly been discharged through the window of a home where another youth was inside,…

Featured, Justice, News, Police May 20, 2025

Fort Providence Shooting Suspect Taken into Custody

Krystian Cogswell was arrested in Kelowna, B.C. during an unrelated Search Warrant Investigation

The suspect of the deadly Fort Providence shooting has been arrested. Krystian Cogswell was taken into custody in Kelowna, B.C. on May 15th. He was discovered in a local residence after the Kelowna RCMP’s Emergency Response Team was investigating an unrelated search warrant. Cogswell is being transported back to the…

Featured, News, Reconciliation May 20, 2025

Sun sets on this Traditional Healing Ceremony for residential school survivors

'Keep building those bridges and that understanding ... keep the conversation going,' says facilitator Frank Hope

As part of the ongoing effort to help the victims of residential schools on their journeys of recovery, the Northwest Territories/Nunavut Council of Friendship Centres recently partnered with the Shakes the Dust Hope Consulting group to hold two special sessions of Traditional Healing Ceremonies. The Ceremonies were lead by Frank…

Featured, News, Politics May 16, 2025

Diamond mines aren’t forever, so what can they be replaced with?

'We don't want to be in a situation where we are not using the resources we have, including the ability to take on debt in order to provide infrastructure,' says Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek

The pending closure of the NWT’s three huge diamond mines will certainly reduce direct taxation revenues for the territorial government, but it’s the ripple effects through the private sector that could really hurt our economy, says the minister in charge. During a virtual town hall Thursday night — the first…

Featured, News, Police May 15, 2025

Fort Providence RCMP searching for man wanted on 11 charges

Logan Causa remains at large after fleeing from police on May 9

RCMP in Fort Providence are searching for 24-year-old Logan Causa, who is wanted on an active warrant and faces 11 charges. Police say they attended a residence on May 9 where Causa was believed to be, but were denied entry by the homeowner. A warrant was later issued to enter…

Featured, News, Reconciliation May 13, 2025

Gwich’in dogsledders, to Dene climate knowledge, to youth empowerment

The 2025 Arctic Inspiration Prize winners announced on Tuesday; Canada's largest annual prize, celebrates and enables Northern-led achievements across several fields

Twelve Northern-led teams were celebrated today as laureates of the 2025 Arctic Inspiration Prize, receiving over $3.7 million in recognition of their innovative, community-driven projects. Wally Schumann, chair of the AIP Charitable Trust and a former NWT cabinet minister, stated in a release, “… every year we continue to see…

Featured, News, Politics, Reconciliation May 13, 2025

NWT rookie MP Rebecca Alty scores sought-after cabinet seat

The territory's first cabinet minister in two decades has promised to work on progressing land claims, and on major infrastructure projects

The NWT’s rookie MP Rebecca Alty is the country’s Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations in Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new cabinet announced Tuesday morning. The politically savvy, self-described policy nerd was appointed by a man born in Fort Smith and spent his early years in Edmonton. She is the NWT’s first…

Featured, News, Police May 12, 2025

One arrested, two wanted after armed home invasion in Fort Smith

One man has been arrested and police are searching for two others after a violent home invasion involving a firearm in Fort Smith last week.

One man has been arrested and two others are wanted after an armed home invasion in Fort Smith last week. RCMP say three men broke into a home on St. Ann’s Street around midnight on May 5, threatening the occupant with a firearm. The victim escaped without injury and contacted…

Featured, News, Police May 12, 2025

UPDATE: Two in custody, one at large after armed home invasion in Fort Smith

Three men break into home on St. Ann’s street and threaten to shoot the occupant, who escaped unharmed, say police

UPDATE MAY 16th: RCMP advised that Deonne Bourke, wanted in relation to the armed home invasion below, surrender and was taken into custody without incident. However, Tristan Mercredi remains at large with an active warrant for his arrest. —————– One person is in custody while arrest warrants have been issued…