Keeping residents safe during the COVID-19 pandemic is a top priority for the Town of Inuvik. As a precautionary measure, the Town administration has decided to close the following facilities by the end of the day: Midnight Sun Complex. Inuvik Centennial Library. Town of Inuvik Town Hall & Town Office….
Two overdue hunters have been found safe in near Reid Lake north of Yellowknife. That’s according to RCMP who state in a news release that two male hunters from Behchoko were located safely Friday at portage 9 in the Reid Lake area out the Ingraham Trail. They had been late…
The internet was out across the NWT today. Andrew Anderson is the Director of Communications at Northwestel. “Just prior to 10 a.m. the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Northern B.C. experienced an outage to telecommunications services due to a cut to a fibre line in Northern BC,” Anderson said. “A technical…
The Education Summit being held by the Dene Nation next Tuesday on the K’atl’odeeche First Nation Reserve in Hay River has been postponed because of the coronavirus outbreak. The Dene Nation plans its first Education Summit The Summit was planned for March 17 to 18 by Dene leadership to encourage…
A new synthetic opioid drug called isotonitazene, has prompted a public warning from the RCMP in Nunavut. “The pills are white, in the shape of a triangle and could have an M or a P on one side and an 8 on the other,” Nunavut RCMP said. “The appearance of…
The coronavirus is sweeping across the world, therefore today the World Health Organization (WHO) declared it as a pandemic. Dr. Tedros is the Director-General of the World Health Organization. “We have called every day for countries to take urgent and aggressive action,” Dr. Tedros said on Twitter. “We have rung…
The Chief Public Health Officer (CPHO) would like to provide an update to NWT residents on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). “As of March 10, no one in the NWT has tested positive for COVID-19,” Dr. Kami Kandola, CPHO of the GNWT said. “To date, 24 tests have been performed.” The…
It was a terrifying experience for mother Sunita Kochon after her son Preston Kochon was run over by a truck on Sunday in Yellowknife near the Snowcastle. CKLB Radio recently wrote about the six-year-old trapper from Colville Lake and his love for being out on the land with his grandfather….
The NWT RCMP is investigating a traffic incident after a tractor-trailer hauling two tanker trailers ended up in the ditch at the junction of highway 3 and highway 4 in Yellowknife on Monday. It appears the driver of the truck couldn’t make the turn in time and lost control ending…
Two people from Yellowknife, have been charged with first-degree murder after human remains were discovered north of Edmonton last December. According to police, on Dec. 4, 24-year-old Faisal Fadul Aden’s body was discovered near Red Earth Creek, Alta., which is about 400 kilometres north of Edmonton. An autopsy revealed the…