Two men are charged under the Northwest Territories Liquor Act after RCMP say they sold alcohol in downtown Yellowknife to vulnerable residents. Police state in an email that through an investigation that began in November and ended last month, the NT RCMP General Investigation Section and Crime Reduction Unit charged…
Fort Simpson RCMP is investigating after a series of break and enters that occurred over the last several months at the local post office. Mounties state in a news release that the Fort Simpson Canada Post office has been the victim of three separate break and enters on September 3rd,…
Yellowknife RCMP have confirmed that an Indigenous woman was forced to spend 11 straight days and nights jailed in an RCMP holding cell over the Christmas holidays. CKLB is choosing not to use the young woman’s name at this time. She says she was arrested for breaching her bail conditions….
A territorial government department, tasked with helping craft and enforce laws and rules, has itself now confessed to violating a government safety regulation. The Northwest Territories fire marshal says he has spoken to staff at the Yellowknife courthouse who he says now admit they violated the occupancy limit in a…
Zoe update Feb 4/20 A man originally from the North Slave community of Gameti, who had been declared a dangerous offender after convictions for multiple sexual assaults, will get a new dangerous offender hearing. According to a NWT Court of Appeal decision released late last week, 38-year-old Bobby Zoe should…
RCMP in Inuvik worked with Grade 8 students from East Three Secondary School last week on mental health issues and how to best deal with them. According to a news release from the Mounties, students listened last Thursday to a videoconference by YouTube personality and author Joey Kidney on the…
Foster families in the Northwest Territories may be breathing a little easier now that they have the ear of the territory’s health and social services minister. It comes after foster parents told the territorial government earlier this month that foster children’s well being was being jeopardized by some uncaring and…
Crown prosecutors in Yellowknife have yet to decide if they will launch an appeal into the four-year jail sentence handed to a Yellowknife man who killed a City Cab driver back in November of 2018. Senior Crown prosecutor Alex Godfrey spoke with CKLB Thursday. “We have 60 days from the…
It’s now been more than four weeks since a Yellowknife woman disappeared without a trace, and RCMP say they are still actively looking for information that might help them locate Sladjana Petrovic. The 60-year-old woman, originally from Serbia, went missing on December 26, from her downtown apartment. Sladjana was reportedly…
The public is invited to a screening this Saturday, Feb. 1, at the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre in Yellowknife called “Turning Points.” It’s a series of eight documentary shorts about alcohol, addiction, resilience and recovery in northern communities. The short films are co-created with local Indigenous storytellers and…