Environment and climate change is one of the most important issues to Canadian voters; the same cannot be said for most of the NWT candidates in the upcoming federal election. Liberal Michael McLeod, Conservative Yanik D’Aigle, and People’s Party candidate Luke Quinlan all skipped out on a debate centred around…
In a rare, if not unprecedented decision in the Northwest Territories, a Supreme Court judge has lifted a publication ban on the name of a victim of a sexual assault and forcible confinement in Ndilo in 2017. The victim, Cynthia Grandjambe of Yellowknife, had requested that the ban be lifted…
Sirens blared by the CKLB station down to the Yellowknife Lift Station next to the recycle bins on School Draw Avenue. When reporters arrived, the station was cordoned off with yellow police tape; three ambulances, two firetrucks and two municipal enforcement vehicles were scattered at the scene. Upon arriving, we…
A sentencing hearing began in Supreme Court in Yellowknife Thursday for a Ndilo man convicted of two counts of sexual assault and one count of forcible confinement. Peter Tsetta, 50, was found guilty by a judge in August. Court heard he held two women against their will at his home…
(UPDATE) As the search for the four missing fishermen on Great Slave Lake continues, RCMP have now released the names of the men who were onboard. They are: Stacy Linington, 59, from Hay River, believed to be the captain of the boat, Daniel Courtoreille, 51, Michael Courtoreille, 50, and Jason…
Early figures show the 2019 election’s voter turnout was a full ten per cent higher than in 2015—at 54 per cent. The last time voter turnout was over 50 per cent was in 2007, when 67 per cent of eligible voters cast their ballot. Much of the jump can be…
According to two RCMP news releases that came in at 9 p.m. on Tuesday, both teens have been found safe. RCMP are asking for the public’s help in locating a missing teen girl from Fort Smith and a missing teen boy from Hay River. In a news release, Mounties state…
RCMP have now confirmed CKLB’s report from earlier Tuesday afternoon that a missing fishing boat has been found capsized on Great Slave Lake. Searchers have been looking for the fishing boat from Hay River with four men aboard since Monday morning. RCMP stated in a news release at about 3:30…
Two people have been arrested and charged after RCMP in Inuvik conducted a drug raid at a residence in that community. According to a news release from the Mounties, a digital scale with suspected crack cocaine residue, cellular devices and a large sum of Canadian currency were seized during the…
RCMP say there is still no sign of four fishermen from Hay River who are reported missing on Great Slave Lake. According to a news release, issued by the Mounties late Tuesday morning, Hay River RCMP and the military’s Joint Rescue Command Centre (JRCC), based at Canadian Forces Base Trenton…