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Community, Featured, News February 20, 2025

Teetl’it Gwich’in Chef presents language-learning cookout in Beaufort Delta communities

“It’s powerful to serve traditional foods with our traditional language,” said Stephanie Baryluk


“‘Jàk’ means berries, ‘Łuk’ means fish,” said Teetl’it Gwich’in Stephanie Baryluk, a Red Seal chef and cultural educator who has travelled the world sharing a taste of the North. Coinciding with NWT’s Indigenous Languages Month, Baryluk partnered with the Gwich’in Tribal Council (GTC) to host a language-learning cookout in Fort…

Featured, News, Politics February 19, 2025

Traditional activities, lower taxes could provide cover in Trump’s threatened trade war, say NWT leaders

‘This is … an unhinged U.S. president who is forgetting who his friends are and turning them into enemies,’ says MLA Kieron Testart


U.S. President Donald Trump has a callous heart and he should be ashamed of himself for threatening what would be an illegal trade war with Canada. That’s what some NWT political leaders had to say on Denendeh Sunrise on Wednesday about Trump’s tariff threats, which are in limbo until the…

Community, Featured, News February 17, 2025

10th annual Traditional Games Championships featured a record 25 teams

This year’s event had the first out-of-territory team from Whitehorse, Yukon


A record 25 teams of youth athletes from 27 NWT communities – with the first out-of-territory team from Whitehorse, Yukon – gathered at Sir John Franklin High School in Yellowknife for a weekend of fun, competition, and teamwork. Organized by Indigenous Sports Circle NWT, the Traditional Games Championships (TGC) allows…

Featured, News, Police February 17, 2025

Hay River RCMP on lookout for suspect charged with firearms offences

Weapons seized after a person had been assaulted, threatened with firearm at a residence on Woodland Drive


Hay River RCMP seized a long gun and are looking for a suspect after a person had been threatened with a firearm. In early February, police received information that a person had been assaulted at a residence on Woodland Drive, stated a release. An investigation was launched, during the course…

Featured, News, Police February 17, 2025

Settling of scores in Fort Smith drug trade likely behind weekend crimes

Shots fired into a residence from a vehicle, followed by a fully engulfed vehicle fire minutes later, say RCMP


Fort Smith RCMP are seeking information from the public after weekend crimes suspected to be linked to the drug trade. Shortly after 5 a.m. on February 15th, officers received a report that several shots had been fired from a vehicle into a residence on Field Street. The vehicle fled the…

Featured, News, Police February 14, 2025

Record-breaking $1.3M bust nets RCMP cocaine, cash and three suspects

The arrests have 'significantly disrupted a drug trafficking and organized crime network, in the NWT, says Assistant Commissioner Lisa Moreland


The largest drug bust in the Northwest Territories’ history netted RCMP $360,000 in cash; and 4.7 kilograms of cocaine, with an estimated street value when broken down for sale of $950,000. Three people from outside the territory were arrested and weapons also seized in the February 4th raid on two…

Featured, News, Politics February 14, 2025

Three MLAs stand up to cabinet, say they aren’t being listened to

'We are going to save our consensus government system and keep the NWT strong and free,' says MLA Kieron Testart


“We’re here to set the record straight. We’re here to save the consensus government. The future of the NWT has never been under such a great threat.” – Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart A trio of MLAs that are fed up with the performance of Premier R.J. Simpson and his…