A convicted Yellowknife drug dealer was in court Monday seeking the return of two vehicles that were seized from him by RCMP when he was arrested. Norman Hache, 38, was sentenced to five years in prison in August of 2017 after he essentially pleaded guilty to being the ringleader of…
Dene National Chief Norman Yakeleya is joining hundreds of other First Nations leaders, Elders and Knowledge Keepers, women, youth and other delegates on Algonquin Territory in the nation’s capital for the Assembly of First Nations Special Chiefs Assembly taking place Tuesday through Thursday. Chiefs and delegates are gathering in Ottawa…
Officials from the Dene Nation are rolling up their sleeves and getting down to the fish business with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) and the Canadian Coast Guard to develop the Arctic Region According to a Dene Nation news release they’ve signed an agreement with DFO and the…
After a relatively mild fall across the Northwest Territories, Environment Canada’s most recognizable forecaster is calling for our winter to be slightly warmer than normal. Senior Climatologist David Phillips acknowledges that autumn technically has three more weeks left in it but says it’ll likely finish milder than usual. Phillips also…
Yellowknife’s only Indigenous city councillor says she is “enraged” after learning the City of Yellowknife will not renew its Indigenous relations advisor post once Maggie Mercredi’s 18-month term ends in February. Stacie Smith says the decision is short-sighted and wrong. “I don’t think the role was taken as seriously as…
A Yellowknife woman has been sentenced to 30 days in jail after she stole her ex-boyfriend’s debit card and drained his bank account of almost $23,000. Audrea Meyok, 36, who is originally from Kugluktuk, NU, was sentenced in territorial court in Yellowknife on Wednesday. She was also ordered to repay…
The Department of Culture and Lands Protection of the Tlicho Government is inviting Behchoko community members to a public meeting to discuss the 100th anniversary celebration in 2021 of Treaty 11. In an advisory, the department states that it would like to hear people’s ideas for projects and activities to…
Yellowknife RCMP are investigating an assault with what appears to be bear spray at a downtown business. According to a news release from the Mounties issued Monday afternoon, officers were called to a downtown business just before 9:00 pm Friday. Police say they received a call for service from an…
The murder trial for a Hay River man, set for mid-January, has been postponed after he fired his legal aid lawyer. Levi Cayen, who’s in his early 20s, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Alex Norwegian in Hay River on Boxing Day, 2017. Cayen appeared in Supreme…
Colten McNeely will have to wait two more months to learn his fate. McNeely, from the Sahtu community of Fort Good Hope, is charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of Lloyd Edgi in September of 2017. The 26-year old McNeely was to get a verdict from the judge…