A Behchoko man has been sentenced to 150 days in jail after he pleaded guilty to punching a woman in the face without provocation and sexually assaulting a male cellmate inside the Behchoko RCMP detachment. Joey Eyakfwo, 45, apologized to his victims in a Yellowknife courtroom Friday before he was…
The Government of the Northwest Territories and De Beers Group are partnering on a project that will renovate and reconfigure the Yellowknife Women’s Society’s emergency and transitional housing shelter on Franklin Avenue – what used to be known as the Centre for Northern Families. At a news conference Thursday at…
The Hamlet of Aklavik has seen three new accessibility ramps built and for that it has been recognized with the NWT Human Rights Commission Accessibility Award. The award recognizes new and existing physical and/or non-physical accommodations that businesses or governments make to increase accessibility to their services. Aklavik recently completed…
Two men have been arrested in a police takedown in Yellowknife after a cabbie was hurt when he was robbed behind a downtown apartment building. RCMP state in a news release that they were called about 7:30 Wednesday morning to an alley behind the Grayling Manor apartment on 53 St….
A Yellowknife man, who skipped out on his sexual assault trial one day after a jury had been picked, has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for failure to attend court. Alden Lennie, 35, was a no-show in court back in January. A warrant was issued for his arrest…
The Chief Coroner of the Northwest Territories has confirmed that a body found last month in Lennie Lake, about 35 kilometres north of Norman Wells, is that of Darren Whiteman. The 20-year-old man had been reported missing last fall after having last been seen at his family’s cabin on Lennie…
No one was hurt when a fire badly damaged a house in Yellowknife on Tuesday afternoon near Pilots’ Monument in Old Town. According to a news release from the city, firefighters got the call to 3509 Ingraham Drive just before 5:00 pm. They arrived to find the roughly 1,000 square…
The Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) has announced that it will now financially cover the cost of a birth control drug for residents with a valid NWT Health Care Card who do not have full coverage for prescriptions under another program or group insurance plan. Mifegymiso is a prescription…
The NWT’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) is sending firefighting resources to assist the Government of Alberta with its wildfire situation near High Level. According to an email from ENR spokesperson Joslyn Oosenbrug, three firefighting crews from the South Slave region and two crews from the North Slave…
The Kas’ho Got’ine Men’s Transition Home in Fort Good Hope and the Sahtu’ot’ine Nats’eju Initiative on Reconnecting with Ourselves in Deline are just two of the recipients that will share in $400,000 in territorial government funding. In a news release, the Department of Health and Social Services stated that 12…