A Yellowknife man has been sentenced to a year in jail after an attack that left another man with a serious brain injury. Daniel Hache, 23, was handed his punishment on Tuesday in Supreme Court in Yellowknife. Court heard that he was camping with the victim and the victim’s girlfriend…
The office of the NWT Chief Public Health Officer has issued a public health advisory for residents of Norman Wells and Fort Good Hope due to wildfire smoke in the area. The smoke is likely coming from a wildfire about 90 kilometres south-east of Tsiigetchic. The advisory says other communities…
In the evening of Sunday, July 14, two American tourists in the Hanbury Lake area, 480 kilometres east of Yellowknife, found a grizzly bear shredding their foldable canoe. They sent a distress call to the International Emergency Response Coordination Centre, a global search and rescue dispatch centre, which relayed the…
If you want to have your say on how the N.W.T. should put a price on carbon, then show up Thursday evening at the Legislative Assembly. The Standing Committee on Government Operations is hosting a public meeting for feedback on the proposed carbon tax. The meeting comes a couple of…
Order of Canada Member Arlene Hache has announced she is running for MLA in Yellowknife Centre in the Oct 1 territorial election. In her announcement she states that downtown is her home where she has worked and lived for 35 years. Hache states she is a leader with solutions of…
An ex-board member of the Fort Simpson housing authority is calling out the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation for dissolving the board that oversees the community’s housing authority. The housing corp recently fired the manager of the authority, and appointed their own housing corporation employee in their place. The housing corporation…
A 34-year-old woman has been arrested after dozens, if not hundreds of flowers were uprooted from downtown planters in Yellowknife Thursday night. According to an email from RCMP, they received a report about 11:10 pm of alleged vandalism to planters on Franklin Avenue. Photos circulating on social media show the…
A funeral being held Friday for respected Yellowknives Dene elder Muriel Betsina has been moved from St. Patrick’s Church to St. Patrick’s school gymnasium in order to accommodate what’s expected to be a large gathering. Muriel was a long time resident of Ndilo and is the mother of current chief…
NWT South District RCMP have just wrapped up the first edition of a boating safety tour along the MacKenzie River. Police stated in a news release that from July 15 to 19, Special Constable Jordan Groenewegen of the Hay River detachment with the assistance of local members, visited Fort Providence,…
A Yellowknife woman is crying foul against Air Canada after she says she feels she was discriminated against due to her Indigenous race when she was removed from a Vancouver to Yellowknife flight last Friday. Rachel Tambour-Zoe tells CKLB that she thought she had paid $150 each to upgrade her…