The Northwest Territories Disability Council will continue to run the Yellowknife Day Shelter and Sobering Centre in the city’s downtown. The NWT’s Health and Social Services Authority (NTHSSA) announced Friday that the disabilities council is the successful proponent after a request for proposals seeking bids for an operator for the…
The Dené National Chief says he has returned from a three-day Dené meeting in Alberta with optimism about the future of a cross-border Dené Nation. Norman Yakeleya is just back in Yellowknife from a historic gathering on the TsuuT’ina First Nation in Calgary. He says the meeting went a long…
The Green Party of Canada says it recognizes the importance of Canada’s North and now has a strategy to develop its resources while protecting its unique landscape. In a news release issued Wednesday, the party states Canada’s North is warming at twice the rate of the rest of the country…
Paulatuk residents were thankful this past Thanksgiving Monday as several of them attended a mitten-making workshop hosted by the RCMP. According to a news release from the Mounties, the Monday’s workshop saw several community members learning how to make traditional Inuvialuit fur mittens. “It was a huge success, with great…
An experienced paddler and well-known Fort Smith resident has described for CKLB exactly how a man was rescued from the trecherous Cassette Rapids on the Slave River on Thanksgiving Monday. Don Jaque was at the scene when the man was rescued Monday night. “He and a friend had been across…
A 26-year-old canoeist is fortunate to be alive after he fell into rapids on a frigid Slave River on Thanksgiving Monday, just south of Fort Smith on the Alberta side of the border with the Northwest Territories. RCMP say the man had put the canoe in the river Monday afternoon…
A Fort Simpson man who was shot last month by a wildlife officer with the territorial government’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) says he and his community are still owed some answers. Dennis Nelner, 54, was hit in the thigh with a slug fired from a shotgun while…
Yellowknife RCMP is asking for the public’s help as they search for a missing man. Glenn Harold Field, 63, has grey hair, grey/blue eyes, measuring 178 cm/5 feet 8 inches and weighing 77 kg/169 pounds. Field is reported to spend most of his time on the land, in the area of…
If you are unable to vote in the federal election on Oct. 21 or just want to get it done, and you live in one of six communities in the Northwest Territories, or Yellowknife, you can cast your ballot at an advance poll this week. The advance polls run from…
Dene National Chief Norman Yakeleya has expressed the importance of working with Dene people in the Northwest Territories as he sat down with 16 of the 19 MLAs-elect on Tuesday. Yakeleya talked to the incoming 19th Legislative Assembly members about the key priorities and issues facing the Dene in the…