Since issuing a call for help to find Mr. Blake, the RCMP say they have found the 38-year-old safe. Blake is 38-years old and was reported missing yesterday, September 12. According to an RCMP news release, he had last been seen on September 2 near Range Lake Road.tips.com.
Few people embody the tension and different possibilities for the territory’s future like the two MLA candidates running in the riding of Frame Lake. Incumbent Kevin O’Reilly has spent his time as an MLA skeptical of multi-million dollar infrastructure projects geared towards attracting the extractive industry. His counterpart Dave Ramsay…
Learning about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder is the easiest way to support someone living with it. That’s according to Korry Garvey of the Foster Family Coalition of the NWT. September 9 is FASD Awareness Day and the coalition hosted a public barbecue in Somba K’e park in Yellowknife to raise…
RCMP in the Northwest Territories have once again defended its officers for locking up a sexual assault victim. A then-13-year-old girl, the victim of a vicious sexual assault in 2014 at the Hay River high rise, was jailed by Mounties — they say — for being intoxicated and breaching her…
How important are the perceived effects of development on the land? That was one of the main questions at a public hearing on a possible change to Diavik mine’s closure plan. The project The mine is hoping to stuff 5 million cubic metres of processed kimberlite back into one of…
Mounties in the Mackenzie Delta community of Fort McPherson say they stopped 144 bottles of liquor from entering the community, where alcohol is restricted under the NWT Liquor Act. There is a set amount of booze any one person can bring into the community. According to a news release from…
New Democrats from the Northwest Territories finally have a candidate for the upcoming federal election. According to a news release from the NWT Federal NDP Electoral District Association, Inuvik resident Mary Beckett will be their candidate. The NDP is the last of the main federal parties to announce their candidate…
It was a day of sad, dramatic and at times difficult testimony to listen to as a preliminary hearing was held in Yellowknife Wednesday for a man left a quadriplegic in an incident last year in the Sahtu community of Colville Lake. Eddy Cook Jr., 56, from Fort Good Hope,…
The federal government is investing in its “gateway to the North” says Minister of National Defence Harjit S. Sajjan. Sajjan was in Yellowknife on Wednesday to announce $150 million in funding over five years to extend the runway at Inuvik’s Mike Zubko Airport by more than 900 meters. The money…
A 36-year-old man is fighting for his life in an Edmonton hospital after he was punched in the head several times during an attack Tuesday afternoon in front of the downtown Yellowknife sobering centre on 50 St. According to RCMP, about 5:40 p.m. Tuesday evening, officers responded to a call…