RCMP in Inuvik worked with Grade 8 students from East Three Secondary School last week on mental health issues and how to best deal with them. According to a news release from the Mounties, students listened last Thursday to a videoconference by YouTube personality and author Joey Kidney on the…
The GNWT and Tłı̨chǫ Government will help support the barren-ground caribou recovery in the NWT by culling wolves. George Mackenzie is the Grand Chief of the Tłı̨chǫ Government. “The caribou are in danger and we all need to want to do more to assist in their recovery,” Grand Chief Mackenzie…
The Yellowknife Canadian Tire in partnership with the Hockey Canada Foundation (HCF) is making the dream of playing hockey come true for 30 children in the NWT. Every season, the HCF Dreams Come True program reaches thousands of young Canadians through a variety of programs designed to get more people…
Foster families in the Northwest Territories may be breathing a little easier now that they have the ear of the territory’s health and social services minister. It comes after foster parents told the territorial government earlier this month that foster children’s well being was being jeopardized by some uncaring and…
The first Community Housing Plan in Whatì has been concluded. “The Whatì Community Housing Plan is an important step in this process to strengthen the trust and relationships between communities and the Territorial government,” Alfonz Nitsiza, Chief of the Whatì Community Government said. The Community Housing Plan represents an extensive,…
Crown prosecutors in Yellowknife have yet to decide if they will launch an appeal into the four-year jail sentence handed to a Yellowknife man who killed a City Cab driver back in November of 2018. Senior Crown prosecutor Alex Godfrey spoke with CKLB Thursday. “We have 60 days from the…
It’s now been more than four weeks since a Yellowknife woman disappeared without a trace, and RCMP say they are still actively looking for information that might help them locate Sladjana Petrovic. The 60-year-old woman, originally from Serbia, went missing on December 26, from her downtown apartment. Sladjana was reportedly…
The public is invited to a screening this Saturday, Feb. 1, at the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre in Yellowknife called “Turning Points.” It’s a series of eight documentary shorts about alcohol, addiction, resilience and recovery in northern communities. The short films are co-created with local Indigenous storytellers and…
A Fort Good Hope man has been found guilty of manslaughter in the death of Lloyd Edgi in that Sahtu community in 2017. 26-year-old Colten McNeely was convicted in Supreme Court in Yellowknife Tuesday. He was initially charged with murder after stabbing the 28 year old Edgi in the chest…
A suspect arrested by RCMP for armed robberies and break and enter in Whitehorse has now been charged with assaulting Mounties in Inuvik. According to a news release from police, Corey Cardinal, who was arrested in Inuvik last weekend, is now facing two charges of assaulting a police officer causing…