Louisa Lafferty, the Fort Good Hope mother of murder victim Charlotte Lafferty is planning a public grief, healing and trauma session in the fall. Her announcement comes two weeks after her daughter Charlotte Lafferty’s killer, Keenan McNeely, had his appeal of his conviction quashed by the Northwest Territories Court of…
Nearly 400 men who had their lives changed for the better over the past decade. That’s what was being honoured and recognized last week as Bailey House, the transitional home located at Yellowknife’s Salvation Army building downtown, celebrated its 10th anniversary. Folks from across the city and beyond – from…
And then there were three. Fred Sangris has officially withdrawn as a candidate for the Dettah Chief in the upcoming Yellowknives Dene First Nation election. Sangris is the community negotiator for YKDFN and has been working on the Akaitcho land claim process. “I was asked by the elders and members…
Congratulations are going out to the tiny Tlicho community of Gameti. The community has won the ParticipACTION: Canada’s Most Active Community regional prize for the North region which included all three territories. Residents of Gameti logged a total of 110,648 minutes of tracked physical activity across 235 events. That’s pretty heady stuff for…
After a half dozen successful speaking engagements with students in the Northwest Territories last month, the RCMP says it wants to bring ex-gang leader Michael “Bull” Roberts back this fall. The inspirational motivational speaker from Newfoundland was brought to the territory by the Mounties and the NWT Department of Justice,…
Two Aurora College students have won Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies (ACUNS) scholarships worth $5,000 apiece. Joni Tsatchia and Karen Lepine, both from the Bachelor of Education program at the Thebacha campus in Fort Smith, are two of ten recipients from the Yukon and Northwest Territories. The research…
An veteran RCMP officer, currently based in Yellowknife, but well-known elsewhere in the Northwest Territories, has won a national highway safety award. Sergeant Todd Scaplen is the 2019 Recipient of the Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators (CCMTA) Police Partnership Award. Introduced in 2007, the CCMTA Police Partnership Award honours…
Yellowknife-based, Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards-winning band Digawolf as well as the Yellowknives Dene Drummers are among the performers who will take to the stage at Sombe K’e Civic Plaza for the City of Yellowknife’s Canada Day celebration on Monday. Also offered beside city hall on Chief Drygeese Territory for the…
An NWT Territorial Court judge is to deliver her verdict on August 26 after a trial last week in Inuvik for a man charged with killing a polar bear out of season. 31-year-old Justin Elias of Inuvik says he shot and killed the bear last summer in self-defence. Elias has…
A Yellowknife man is charged with several offences after the Circle K convenience store, commonly known as Winks, at Forrest Drive and Franklin Avenue was robbed twice this year. The latest came just over two weeks ago on June 7 when a man entered the store and threatened the clerk…