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 Fred Sangris has officially withdrawn as a candidate for the Dettah Chief in the upcoming Yellowknives Dene First Nation election.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…
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 their policy, RCMP have not said where he was located nor when. They stated in a news release just before 5:00 p.m. Tuesday that he…
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 manslaughter in the death of his cousin. Darcy Nerysoo, 31, who was initially charged with second-degree murder, received his punishment last week in court in…