The Northwest Territories has no shortage of sport fans, or athletes. But since members of Oilers Nation have little to cheer about this playoff season, Jurassic Park North, and #WeTheNorth is sweeping across the tundra. “A lot of people cheer whenever there is a Canadian team in the running. A…
Yellowknife RCMP are advising the public to be aware of a stranger trying to lure children, after a report of a suspicious person in a vehicle allegedly requested a female youth to get into his vehicle this past Saturday. In a press release issued Sunday, G-Division RCMP say an 8…
Yellowknife closed Veteran’s Memorial Way today for a brief parade, and wreath laying ceremony to observe the 75th Anniversary of Operation Overlord, better known as D-Day. Royal Canadian Legion Vincent Massey Branch President Don Asher, laid a wreath and stressed the importance for Canadians to never forget the sacrifice and…
Folks are celebrating the 35th anniversary of the signing of the Inuvialuit Final Agreement today in Inuvik and across the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, which stretches from Aklavik to Ulukhaktok, NWT. The biggest celebration for Inuvialuit Day is being planned to happen in Inuvik at Jim Koe Park, with a BBQ…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau changed his tune on using the work ‘Genocide,” when discussing the recent release of the final report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. One former minister from the Harper Government, called out Trudeau and the Inquiry as playing politics, and “using the plight and…
Conflicting reports are coming out of Northern Alberta this morning. Initially CTV News had reported some homes in Paddle Prarie, 7o kilometres south of High Level had burned. The ChuckKegg fire is the same one that has pushed over 4000 people from High Level, Meander River, Bushe River and Chateh…
Operation Complete! Yellowknife and NWT citizens delivered much needed items for evacuees in Northern Alberta last night. Vice President of Operations for Deton’cho Logistics Stu Impett says people from across the NWT helped stuff a a plane, with goods such as underwear, hair elastics, Polysporin, and Vaseline for evacuees staying…
One Dene Tha’ elder says this is the second time in recent memory his community of Meander River has been forced to evacuate, due to a nearby Forrest Fire. Roy Salopree, who is well known for his Dene Drumming across the Dehcho Region is one of 25 people from his…
A recently published article in the Journal of Scientific Reports is suggesting Giant Pleistocene beavers diet, helped lead to their extinction during the last ice age, 20,000 some years ago. Dr. Grant Zazula is a paleontologist with the Government of Yukon and a co-author of the recent report. He was…
For the first time in the Northwest Territories, the federal Green Party has two people seeking the nomination to run in this fall’s general election. The two candidates are former City Councillor and lawyer Paul Falvo and William Gagnon. Green members will be voting on Friday May 10th at the…