A man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in connection to a fatal beating outside downtown Yellowknife’s Day Shelter and Sobering Centre last September. Court documents show that 33-year-old Victor Shane Ugyuk pleaded guilty Monday to punching Mark Poodlat in the head and face several times in front of the shelter….
Officials from the Office of the Auditor General and the NWT’s Department of Education, Culture and Employment (ECE) are to appear before the Legislative Assembly’s Standing Committee on Government Operations on April 1. The committee will be conducting a public hearing on the auditor’s report on early childhood to Grade…
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are investigating what they call a “sudden death” in Behchoko. Mounties state in a news release that their Major Crime Unit is looking into the death. Even though they do not describe the death as suspicious, police make a point of saying that no one…
The public won’t hear the verdict for more than four months in a dog attack trial that wrapped up in territorial court in Yellowknife Thursday. But the judge in the case made one thing abundantly clear, city bylaw officers failed in their duty to properly investigate the incident before laying…
A trial began Wednesday in territorial court for a Yellowknife lawyer who is charged under a City of Yellowknife bylaw with letting his dog run loose and a second charge of allowing that same dog to bite a person. Civil lawyer Doug McNiven was charged last summer after his dog…
There are some long faces in Yellowknife this morning after it was announced that the NBA Championship Trophy, won by the Toronto Raptors last year, will not be making it to Yellowknife after all. Charzie Abendanio, spokesperson for Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (MLSE) the parent company of the Raptors…
It would be pretty difficult for any Toronto Raptors players to make it up to Yellowknife right now in the middle of their season, but perhaps the next best thing is on its way. A spokesperson for Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (MLSE), the parent company of the Raptors and…
An event Thursday night in Yellowknife raised about $6,000 in support of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation in Northern British Columbia. That’s according to organizer and performer Leela Gilday. “We are the Stronghold” was billed as a musical ceremony and celebration in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en. People there have been protesting a…
When Dene National Chief Norman Yakeleya says “water is life” he has a good reason. The Dene Nation will host its first northern leaders’ water summit in October in Fort Smith. “The water summit was planned on advice from all the Grand Chiefs,” Yakeleya told CKLB Radio Wednesday in an…
A star of the reality television show Ice Road Truckers has pleaded guilty in a Yellowknife courtroom to “arson by negligence” for causing an explosion while trying to make shatter, a form of cannabis resin, not unlike hashish. CKLB has chosen not to use the 65-year-old man’s name because this…