A nearly 50-year-old fossil mystery has finally been solved in the Yukon and scientists have concluded that ancient rhinoceros and turtles once roamed the territory during a much warmer and moist time. Rewind back to April 1973, Joan Hodgins was working with some students from a community then located outside…
Community members in Sambaa K’e gathered yesterday for the official ribbon cutting to re-open the newly renovated Charles Tetcho School. Mary Deneron, one of the community’s oldest elders did the honours of cutting the moose hide string alongside Chief Dolphus Jumbo. Deneron is the niece of the elder, who the…
On Friday, September 27, students and staff at K’alemi Dene school in Ndilo celebrated the tenth anniversary of the new school building. [slide-anything id=”4245″] Later, the school inaugurated the new court as students took on staff in a basketball game.
Several hundred environmentally conscious students and other like-minded adults turned out on Friday for a march through Yellowknife’s downtown. The rally, which some students called a strike, culminated with a noon-hour protest rally at Somba K’e Plaza on the shore of Frame Lake beside city hall. The demonstrators were part…
A mass walk out is planned for Friday in Yellowknife by students and other environmentally conscious individuals to protest a lack of action on climate change. According to a news release, students from Yellowknife schools and other concerned residents will walk out of classrooms, homes and workplaces to join in…
The Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) and Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario have extended their partnership agreement for the next ten years. According to a GNWT news release, the university and the territorial government have been working together for the past decade bringing research expertise and training opportunities…
NWT South District RCMP have just wrapped up the first edition of a boating safety tour along the MacKenzie River. Police stated in a news release that from July 15 to 19, Special Constable Jordan Groenewegen of the Hay River detachment with the assistance of local members, visited Fort Providence,…
MP Michael McLeod announced a handful of clean technology projects in the territory that will be getting federal funding. The total dollar amount is $3.8 million dollars for six projects in the NWT. The largest portion, $2 million, is going to the University of British Columbia to develop carbon sequestration technology for…
Support, inspiration and new opportunities. Those concepts will apparently guide the transition of Aurora College into a polytechnic university. That’s according to survey results of more than 700 residents and 4,500 comments according to the Department of Education, Culture and Employment. Other themes that emerged were to have post-secondary options…
At least 100 Ndilo and Dettah students will be sporting new backpacks this coming school year. The bags are a donation from Islamic Relief Canada and the Islamic Centre of Yellowknife. Fariha Khan is an Ontario physician temporarily working in Yellowknife. She also sits on the board of Islamic Relief Canada. She…