Veteran Yellowknife RCMP officer wins national highway safety award
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…
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Digawolf, Yellowknives Dene Drummers highlight Yellowknife’s Canada Day celebration
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…
Verdict to come in August after trial for Inuvik man charged with fatally shooting polar bear out of season
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…
Yellowknife RCMP make arrest in two armed convenience store robberies
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…
Yellowknife RCMP locate missing teen boy
RCMP in Yellowknife have located a missing 17-year-old boy. Spencer Lockhart had been reported missing on Sunday evening after leaving Stanton Territorial Hospital. As is…
Fort McPherson man sentenced to just under three years in jail for fatally beating his cousin
A man from the Mackenzie Delta community of Fort McPherson has been sentenced to just under three years in jail after he pleaded guilty to…
Feds pass legislation killing Harper-era NWT lands and water ‘Superboard’
The Government of Canada says it has taken action to respect the rights and interests of Indigenous peoples, protect Canada’s rich natural environment, and support…
AFN Chief Perry Bellegarde applauds two new bills including Feds’ new Indigenous Languages Act
Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Perry Bellegarde has welcomed the enactment of two new pieces of federal legislation passed in the House of Commons…
Indigenous diversity, multiculturalism celebrated in Yellowknife on National Indigenous Peoples Day
From Metis to Dene to Inuvaluit people and well beyond, Yellowknife’s National Indigenous Day celebration was a party, but it was also a recognition of…
GNWT lifts public health advisory as smoke from Northern Alberta wildfires lessens in territory
The Government of the Northwest Territories says a public health advisory due to wildfire smoke has now been lifted. The territory’s acting chief public health…