One building was destroyed after a structural fire in Inuvik on Friday, June 26th. The fire on Airport Lake was just under one hectare in size and has been officially declared out, said Amber Simpson, wildfire prevention coordinator at the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. The Inuvik Fire Department…
Four people are facing fraud charges after police say they deposited the same altered cheque 36 times in various bank accounts. Police say the deposits happened between December 2019 and February 2020, with a cheque that was “issued to an individual by the North Slave Correctional Centre’s Inmate Trust Fund”….
The North’s largest telecommunications company says the changes to data usage it introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic will become permanent. Following an application to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, NorthwesTel removed the data usage limits for many clients and boosted the limit for others from March to May. In…
Yellowknife RCMP is asking for the public’s help in finding 22-year-old Adrian Sangris. Sangris is facing several charges relating to an assault that police say happened on June 16 at a residence in Yellowknife. An arrest warrant was issued on June 18 in territorial court for Sangris. Police describe Sangris…
A Dene man alleged he was assaulted by police officers on June 10, now Yellowknife RCMP says none of its officers had any contact with him on that day. Yellowknife RCMP says it was made aware of the allegations on June 11 and the General Investigative Section started an investigation…
Three days after lifting the boil water advisory, the chief environmental health officer has reinstated it for the communities of Hay River, K’atl’odeeche Reserve, Enterprise and Kakisa. Similarly to the first advisory, this one is also due to high levels of turbidity (debris and sediment) and is “precautionary in nature.”…
NWT residents wanting to leave the territory via Highway 7 will be allowed to do so twice a week. The territorial government has updated its travel restrictions to allow residents to leave using schedule exits at 1 p.m. on Tuesdays and Fridays. Residents wishing to leave need to email the…
Fort Liard RCMP says it is investigating a third incident of “damage done” at the gate on Highway 7 near the British Columbia border. The department of Infrastructure informed local RCMP of the incident, the department has since re-secured the gate. There have been two other similar occurrences, on April…
The MV Johnny Berens ferry on the Mackenzie River at the N’dulee crossing has closed. Earlier this week, the department of Infrastructure tweeted that the MV Lafferty on the Liard River closed. Both closures are due to high water levels and debris and neither have a timeline for when operations…
NT RCMP is warning residents about a spike in fentanyl use after two recent overdoses. The first was on May 28 in Yellowknife; officers and paramedics arrived to find an unresponsive man. According to a police news release, paramedics managed to revive the man who later said he knew he…