Yellowknife RCMP say they are seeking to speak with the person who stole a van in the city over the weekend. They say the blue, 1996 GMC Safari van was stolen at about 6:45 pm on Saturday from the owner’s residence. Police say for privacy reasons they won’t say where…
The MLA for Tu Nehde-Wiilideh says the territorial government must put the brakes on bulk buying at the liquor store to combat bootlegging in the Northwest Territories. Tom Beaulieu says when folks buy a full case of booze from the liquor store – everyone knows that the bottles are going…
The Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Mackenzie Delta wants officials from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) to do something about what he says is an increase in grizzly bear numbers in the Hamlet of Aklavik. Frederick “Sonny” Blake raised the issue in the Legislative Assembly…
(UPDATE) RCMP in the Northwest Territories said Tuesday that they believe their phone systems are working once again. “Northwest Territories RCMP advise that, to the best of their knowledge, the phone systems for local RCMP detachment “1111” numbers are operating normally. This includes call forwarding for detachments to the RCMP…
Indigenous cultural camps, road upgrades, trails development, wastewater and solid waste management projects across the Northwest Territories all received a financial boost Tuesday from the federal government as well as various communities and Indigenous groups. MP for the NWT, Michael McLeod along with Alfred Moses the territorial minister for Municipal…
A Yellowknife man, who failed to show for day two of his original trial has been found not guilty of sexual assault. 35-year-old Alden Lennie was acquitted in Supreme Court in Yellowknife last Friday. He was charged in 2017 about two years after a woman complained to RCMP that she’d…
(UPDATE) RCMP in the Northwest Territories said Tuesday that they believe their phone systems are working once again. “Northwest Territories RCMP advise that, to the best of their knowledge, the phone systems for local RCMP detachment “1111” numbers are operating normally. This includes call forwarding for detachments to the RCMP…
RCMP are investigating the latest Internet and cable TV outage in the NWT as a probable act of vandalism. Mounties state in a news release that the fibre optic line between Yellowknife and Behchoko was somehow severed about 9:00 am Monday, affecting service in several communities including Yellowknife. They refused…
The Dene Nation has made some structural moves in order to embark on a new path for the future of the organization. At the recent Dene National Assembly held in Midway Lake, Gwich’in Region (Denendeh), the leaders identified the issue of Dene unity and restructuring as a priority by the…
Raw emotions were laid bare in a Yellowknife courtroom Friday morning as a judge found a Ndilo man guilty of two counts of sexual assault and one count of forcible confinement. Peter Tsetta, 50, was found not guilty on another count of forcible confinement. He swore at his victim after…