The Chief Public Health Officer (CPHO) for the Northwest Territories has some very simple advice for people who vape or who are thinking about trying it. Dr. Kami Kandola says it you’ve already started – stop, and if you are thinking about trying a vapourizer, think carefully again. Kandola’s advice…
According to two RCMP news releases that came in at 9 p.m. on Tuesday, both teens have been found safe. RCMP are asking for the public’s help in locating a missing teen girl from Fort Smith and a missing teen boy from Hay River. In a news release, Mounties state…
RCMP have now confirmed CKLB’s report from earlier Tuesday afternoon that a missing fishing boat has been found capsized on Great Slave Lake. Searchers have been looking for the fishing boat from Hay River with four men aboard since Monday morning. RCMP stated in a news release at about 3:30…
Two people have been arrested and charged after RCMP in Inuvik conducted a drug raid at a residence in that community. According to a news release from the Mounties, a digital scale with suspected crack cocaine residue, cellular devices and a large sum of Canadian currency were seized during the…
RCMP say there is still no sign of four fishermen from Hay River who are reported missing on Great Slave Lake. According to a news release, issued by the Mounties late Tuesday morning, Hay River RCMP and the military’s Joint Rescue Command Centre (JRCC), based at Canadian Forces Base Trenton…
RCMP say they have charged a Tuktoyaktuk man with attempted murder after a shooting in that community back on September 22. CKLB first reported that Mounties were called just before 9:00 pm that Sunday after the shooting outside a residence. Police say a 43-year-old man was found inside a nearby…
A search operation is underway after four commercial fishermen were reported overdue in Hay River. According to an RCMP news release, issued over the noon hour Monday, Mounties in Hay River received a report just after 4:00 am Monday that the men were believed to have been travelling by boat…
Mounties in Hay River are investigating after a door was damaged at a local store in an apparent attempted break and enter. According to an RCMP news release, at about 12:20 am, on Thursday, September 19, officers responded to an attempted burglary at a business on Woodland Drive, in downtown…
Several hundred environmentally conscious students and other like-minded adults turned out on Friday for a march through Yellowknife’s downtown. The rally, which some students called a strike, culminated with a noon-hour protest rally at Somba K’e Plaza on the shore of Frame Lake beside city hall. The demonstrators were part…
A Yellowknife teenager who nearly stabbed a drug dealer to death, stole his marijuana and beat up a jail guard at the North Slave Correctional Complex (NSCC) has been sentenced to four and a half years in a federal prison. Jordan Charlie, 19, was handed his punishment in territorial court…