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Featured, News, Police August 30, 2024

UPDATE, ARREST MADE: Alleged sexual offender on the run, police seek public’s assistance

Dallas Abraham is described as being 6’2’’ and about 200 pounds


Fort Smith RCMP are seeking the public’s assistance in locating Dallas Abraham, who has been charged with multiple sexual assault and assault offences against the same person. These charges include two counts of three counts of sexual assault, one count of uttering threats, one count of assault causing bodily harm,…

Featured, Health, News, Police August 30, 2024

Dangerous experimental drug seizure prompts public health warning

Para-flurofentanyl was detected in recent drug bust enroute to Yellowknife, prompting Chief Public Health Officer's to raise alarm


A potentially lethal synthetic drug created for research purposes in the 1960s but was never intended for human use has been seized in the NWT, prompting a public health warning. Para-flurofentanyl was detected in a recent drug seizure enroute to Yellowknife, prompting the Chief Public Health Officer to issue a…

Community, Featured, Health, News August 29, 2024

Boil water advisory for Sambaa K’e lifted

A precautionary advisory was issued on July 15 due to a mechanical failure in the water treatment system


The boil water advisory for the community of Sambaa K’e has been lifted. The advisory was issued by the community government and the Chief Environmental Health Officer on July 15. It was due to a critical mechanical failure in the community water treatment system that caused muddy water. “There have…

Featured, News, Police August 27, 2024

Two Inuvik women charged with murder, performing an indignity to human remains

Thirty-nine-year-old man found dead behind a building early Sunday morning; court later issues publication ban on details of scene


Two Inuvik women are charged with murder and performing an indignity to human remains after a man was found dead behind a building early Sunday morning. After Inuvik RCMP received a report that a body had been in the Beaufort Delta community, they discovered the 39-year-old man. As a result…

Culture, Education, Featured, News, Reconciliation August 26, 2024

Indigenous languages in NWT receive $17.7 million over three years

‘We will continue to work with Indigenous people and governments to ensure Indigenous languages are protected, promoted and celebrated,’ says Minister Caitlin Cleveland


The Government of Canada and the Government of the Northwest Territories have signed a new Canada-Northwest Territories Agreement on Indigenous Languages from 2024-25 to 2026-27. Under the new agreement, $5.9 million will be invested per fiscal year, for a total of $17.7 million over three years. Caitlin Cleveland is the…

Featured, Law courts, News, Police August 23, 2024

Convicted Edmonton drug dealer barred from NWT for three years after he serves jail sentence

Nineteen-year-old Abel Leule initially slipped past RCMP after raid on Fort Smith residence in fall of 2023, to be later arrest in Fort Resolution


The general public is the best source of information police have in combating drug trafficking, and the RCMP have a recent conviction as an example of that co-operation. And a recent sentencing of a dealer who last year was peddling crack and Percocet pills in Fort Smith – and later…

Featured, News, Weather, Wildfires August 16, 2024

Jet-setting Indigenous input into Northern climate change

NASA/GNWT study looks at increased frequency and intensity of wildfires, which may be occurring faster than forests can recover


Representatives from the Tłı̨chǫ region and Yellowknives Dene First Nation participated in a NASA climate change research flight aboard a NASA jet today. The Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment is a long-term collaboration between the Government of the Northwest Territories and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The goal is a better…

Featured, News August 13, 2024

Mackenzie Highway closed due to wildfire activity

Due to increased fire activity surrounding the Enterprise, Alberta, NWT border, Highway 1 has been closed as of 5 a.m. this morning. There are no current fire threats to Enterprise or Hay River, but heavy smoke from fires further to the west and south is affecting visibility. “Wildfire season has…