It’s nice to sit around a camp fire, enjoy a cup of bush tea or coffee and chat with friendly folks about your life and challenges. The City of Yellowknife is partnering up with the Arctic Indigenous Wellness Foundation. In a news release issued Thursday, Mayor Rebecca Alty says “the…
The Northwest Territories Health and Social Services Authority has announced improvements to the Cancer Navigation Program which is now available to all residents of the NWT. In a news release, the authority states that this development aligns with the goals of “Charting Our Course: Northwest Territories Cancer Strategy 2015-2025” to improve…
RCMP have come up empty in their latest search for the bodies of two missing snowmobilers in Great Slave Lake. Cammy Boucher, 23 of Lutsel K’e and Fort Good Hope resident Jake Gully, 28, have been missing since their snow machine went through thin ice as they travelled from Dettah…
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…