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Featured, News, Politics April 29, 2025

Liberal Rebecca Alty trades Yellowknife Council Chamber for House of Commons seat

City mayor and former two-term councillor promises to 'work hard to represent you and to be your strong voice in Ottawa'


Liberal Rebecca Alty’s political career keeps soaring, as the current Yellowknife mayor scored a convincing win on Monday over three candidates to be the NWT’s sole MP in the House of Commons. As she celebrated with jubilant supporters in a warehouse full of campaign signage and large posters of Liberal…

Featured, Law courts, News April 27, 2025

Woman wildly wheeling pickup through Bison Estates guilty of dangerous driving causing death

Hannah Lafferty, 24, was trying to shake lover's ex-girlfriend from the truck before it slammed into innocent pedestrian in April 2022


A woman who used her father’s pickup truck “as a weapon” in a lover’s dispute has been found guilty of dangerous driving causing the death of an innocent passerby. On the night of April 21, 2022, 24-year-old Hannah Lafferty was seen speeding and fishtailing in a gravel-and-ice covered roadway and…

Community, Featured, Health, News April 25, 2025

‘There is hope’: New book sheds light on cancer survival in the North

The book features 30 first-hand narratives on combatting cancer in the NWT


Gwich’in cancer survivor Agnes Pascal’s new book, Book of Hope: Healthcare and Survival in the North, documents stories of 30 northerners on what it’s like to experience cancer in remote communities. Pascal was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015. Prior to that, she worked in health care offices booking appointments…

Featured, News, Politics April 24, 2025

Mackenzie Delta MLA enters treatment program after impaired driving charge: reports

George Nerysoo’s leave of absence will last for several months; he will miss some committee work and the next house sitting


The MLA for Mackenzie Delta has taken a leave of absence and entered a treatment program after being charged with impaired driving in Fort McPherson, state media reports. George Nerysoo’s leave of absence was first reported this week by the CBC, which stated the first-term MLA had posted about his situation…

Featured, News, Wildfires April 24, 2025

Wildfire Preparedness Workshop kindles plans for better mutual aid in disasters

'We want to be able to help each other through these events if someone gets into trouble,' says Hay River’s Travis Wright


The lessons learned from the historically devastating 2023 wildfire season are many, but questions remain as to how many will be put into action before the next natural disaster. Representatives from all 29 forested communities in the NWT were invited to the first NWT Wildfire Preparedness Workshop this week in…

Featured, News, Police April 24, 2025

Three charged after fentanyl, crack-cocaine seized at Kátł’odeeche First Nation home

Police say the residence was unlawfully occupied when officers arrived Tuesday night


Fentanyl and crack-cocaine was seized from a residence on Kátł’odeeche First Nation that was unlawfully occupied by three people on Tuesday, say RCMP. Officers were called to the residence just before midnight on April 22 and upon arrival, they found three individuals inside, along with a quantity of drugs, cash,…

Featured, News, Reconciliation April 22, 2025

Pope Francis remembered for his landmark residential school apology to Indigenous peoples

'He felt, really deeply, full of shame — not only that, he really also felt our pain,' recalls former Dene National Chief Gerald Antoine


“We want to talk together, to pray together and to work together, so that the sufferings of the past can lead to a future of justice, healing and reconciliation.” – Pope Francis, on the Catholic church and Indigenous peoples of Canada Nine days of mourning will commence Saturday, April 26,…