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Featured, News, Politics, Reconciliation June 18, 2025

PM Mark Carney seeks sweeping powers to fast track major projects deemed ‘in the national interest’

'OUR national interest — the Dene people — is that we need a lot of things that are in OUR national interest to survive,' says former Dene National Chief Norman Yakeleya


The Canadian Senate has passed a closure motion to conclude debate on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s One Canadian Economy Act by Friday. Bill C5 grants the federal cabinet sweeping powers to fast track approvals for major industrial products it considers to be in the national interest. Those projects could be…

Featured, News, Police June 14, 2025

Possible kidnapping yields RCMP three suspects in central Yellowknife

Firearm also seized as investigation continues; police say criminal charges are forthcoming


As part of an ongoing investigation, in the early morning on Friday the 13th, Yellowknife RCMP executed a search warrant and arrested several people in the 5400-block of 52nd Street in Yellowknife. That block includes Bison Hill Estates row houses, and further up the street/driveway, Bison Hill Apartments. Days prior…

Environment, Featured, News, Weather June 10, 2025

Great Slave Lake, Mackenzie River water levels ‘well below average,’ says report

May precipitation across the NWT was variable — Yellowknife, Hay River, Inuvik had average precipitation — and levels this summer will depend on rainfall in northern Alberta, B.C.


Following spring break-up, water levels and flow rates remain low across most large lakes and rivers in the Northwest Territories, says the NWT’s Department of Environment and Climate Change. May precipitation across the NWT was variable — where Yellowknife, Hay River and Inuvik received approximately average precipitation, Fort Smith received…

Featured, News, Police May 28, 2025

Two men on bail face gun, drug charges after reports of a sexual assault

Three people in total arrested, including a 61-year-old woman who also faces a count of forcible confinement


Two Yellowknife men on bail, and both under weapons prohibition orders, face a host of serious charges after a person had allegedly been forcibly confined and sexually assaulted at a residence on Bigelow Crescent. In total, three people were arrested after a major police operation on the residential street in…

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…

Featured, News, Police May 8, 2025

‘Potentially dangerous’ — RCMP seizure in Sahtu reveals fentanyl laced with rarely found drug

Mixing benzodiazepines with opioids such as fentanyl may cause more potency, but naloxone will not be as effective.   


A public health advisory has been issued after the recent detection of a new and potentially dangerous drug combination in the Northwest Territories. The Office Chief Public Health Officer warns that Desalkylgudazepam — a rare benzodiazepine derivative originally developed in the former Soviet Union — was found mixed with fentanyl…