Inuk Elder Qapik Attagutsiak, 99, along with other Nunavut Inuit were recently honored for their contributions as Hometown Heroes by the Government of Canada. Attagutsiak played a vital role during WWII by voluntarily gathering animal bones and carcasses, which were then shipped to southern Canada to be made into munitions,…
Nine people have been arrested in Hay River with three of them charged with drug trafficking-related offences. According to an RCMP news release, they were all arrested last Thursday by Hay River RCMP, assisted by the Yellowknife General Investigation Section, Major Crimes Unit, Police Dog Services, Federal Investigation Section, and the combined…
“The Project is likely to result in significant adverse impacts.” Those words are bolded in a recent report issued by the Mackenzie Valley Review Board on a proposed change to Diavik mine’s closure plan. That change would see 5 million cubic metres of processed kimberlite—the material that contains diamonds—stuffed back…
A Yellowknife man, 18-years-old at the time of his crime, is facing six years in jail for chasing and then beating a 73-year-old Yellowknife cab driver and then leaving him in the snow to die. 20-year-old Elias Schiller appeared in a packed Supreme Court in Yellowknife on Monday for the…
When Conrad Prince was two years old, he was sent to Germany as part of the Sixties Scoop. He also only met his sister four years ago, who, he says, didn’t know she was Ojibwe. While each survivor’s experience is unique, this loss of place and identity is common among…
The holy grail of hockey, The Stanley Cup, is headed to Délįne for the first time ever for Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada. Some say Délįne, which is located in the Sahtú region of the Northwest Territories on the western shore of Great Bear Lake, is the birthplace of hockey. Joel…
The vast majority of offenders in correctional facilities in the Northwest Territories are Indigenous people despite the fact they make up only about half of the territory’s overall population. CKLB asked the Justice Department of the NWT for the numbers after federal prison numbers were released this week. “Currently, of…
A hunting rifle that belongs to the father of convicted Yellowknife drug dealer Norman Hache has been returned to its rightful owner. Denis Hache appeared in Supreme Court in Yellowknife Thursday arguing that he lent the 20-year-old Winchester rifle to his son to go hunting and that it should be…
It’s been a few stressful months for one Fort Resolution woman after her purebred Yorkie, named Angel, became severely ill. Martina Jerome, Angel’s dog mom, lives in Fort Resolution and is a self-taught NWT artist that has been sewing for more than 25 years. When Angel took ill on November…
Edmonton police say a man with ties to Hay River and Yellowknife is wanted for murder in Edmonton. According to an Edmonton police news release, their Homicide Section is looking for Amin Yussuf, 29, who remains wanted on Canada-wide warrants in connection to the shooting death of 26-year-old Abubeker Gemechu…