Wifi expansion and a bagged lunch program are among several initiatives made possible by the over $150,000 raised in the Together, We Are Strong campaign. The campaign organized by the Yellowknife Community Foundation and the United Way NWT was initiated to support those affected by COVID-19. The wifi expansion is…
The Rotary Club of Yellowknife is hosting a virtual Canada Day celebration where participants can win prizes. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the usual Canada Day festivities — including the parade — are canceled, the Rotary Club announced in a press release. So the organization is encouraging people…
Misty Ireland says the typical western world of entrepreneurship often doesn’t fit with Indigenous culture and practices — but she adds there is an exception, EntrepreNorth. EntrepreNorth is a northern entrepreneurship incubator that offers programming to empower Indigenous and community-based businesses across all three territories. “Some of the concepts in…
According to the department of Environment and Natural Resources, over half of the wildfires currently in the NWT have been human-caused. As of today, 16 wildfires have been reported, nine of which are man-made. With a total of six active fires within the territory, affecting an area as large as…
Four people are facing fraud charges after police say they deposited the same altered cheque 36 times in various bank accounts. Police say the deposits happened between December 2019 and February 2020, with a cheque that was “issued to an individual by the North Slave Correctional Centre’s Inmate Trust Fund”….
The North’s largest telecommunications company says the changes to data usage it introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic will become permanent. Following an application to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, NorthwesTel removed the data usage limits for many clients and boosted the limit for others from March to May. In…
Yellowknife RCMP is asking for the public’s help in finding 22-year-old Adrian Sangris. Sangris is facing several charges relating to an assault that police say happened on June 16 at a residence in Yellowknife. An arrest warrant was issued on June 18 in territorial court for Sangris. Police describe Sangris…
A Dene man alleged he was assaulted by police officers on June 10, now Yellowknife RCMP says none of its officers had any contact with him on that day. Yellowknife RCMP says it was made aware of the allegations on June 11 and the General Investigative Section started an investigation…
Three days after lifting the boil water advisory, the chief environmental health officer has reinstated it for the communities of Hay River, K’atl’odeeche Reserve, Enterprise and Kakisa. Similarly to the first advisory, this one is also due to high levels of turbidity (debris and sediment) and is “precautionary in nature.”…
The City of Yellowknife and Yellowknife Fire Division have issued a ban on open-air fires, effective immediately. The fire ban is now also in place for Fred Henne Territorial Park and Yellowknife River Territorial Park. “When we have 5 – 6 days of “Extreme” indices we place a fire…