As if dealing with the threat of coronavirus wasn’t bad enough, residents in parts of the Northwest Territories have had to deal with Mother Nature over the past few days as well. Blizzard conditions have wreaked havoc in the northern part of the Northwest Territories. At one point, the school…
All elementary and high schools in the Northwest Territories will now remain closed at least until April 14. That’s the Tuesday following Easter Monday. That announcement was made by Premier Caroline Cochrane in the Legislative Assembly on Monday morning. It’s obviously being done due to the worldwide coronavirus outbreak. Education…
The coronavirus outbreak is affecting courts in the Northwest Territories. Details have been outlined on the NWT Dept. of Justice court schedule website. Supreme Court NWT Supreme Court Chief Justice Charbonneau has given certain directions, effective immediately, regarding Supreme Court proceedings during the coronavirus outbreak. In an advisory, the court…
The Chief Public Health Officer (CPHO) of the Northwest Territories is recommending that NWT residents avoid all non-essential travel outside of the territory due to the coronavirus outbreak. There are still no confirmed cases in the NWT. Dr. Kami Kandola’s advice follows direction from the federal government. To limit the…
A Ndilo grandfather and his two young grandchildren are homeless after he says they were evicted from their home Friday morning by an NWT department of justice sheriff. Lawrence Beaulieu has literally been driving around trying to get his grandkids out of the cold. He says his niece had him…
A Behchoko man has been charged with murder in connection with the death of a man in that Tlicho community last weekend. Colton Migwi, 29, made a brief appearance in Justice of the Peace Court in Yellowknife Friday morning. It comes after RCMP found a man deceased in a residence…
The Government of the Northwest Territories’ Health and Social Services Authority (HSSA) has issued new guidelines and information on what it wants people to do about the coronavirus outbreak. The authority is notifying the public of the following actions. ALL NWT RESIDENTS: Residents may notice enhanced signage and prominence of…
The Assembly of First Nations is either postponing or cancelling all in-person meetings due to the coronavirus outbreak. That fellows the Dene Nations’s decision this week to do virtually the same. In a news release, the AFN states that this includes, but is not limited to, all Chiefs Committees, Tri-Councils,…
The City of Yellowknife, which has both a manager of public safety and an emergency preparedness manager, says it is doing what it can to be ready in case coronavirus comes to the city. In a news release issued Thursday, the city states that as the Novel Coronavirus: COVID-19 outbreak…
A Yellowknife drug dealer has been found guilty of the relatively rare charge of criminal negligence causing bodily harm for giving the powerful painkiller Fentanyl to a woman who subsequently overdosed. She survived after being treated at Stanton Hospital two days later. Court heard she’d been in a coma-like state…