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Featured, News, Politics May 6, 2025

Yellowknife’s new mayor is ‘old-fashioned process guy’ Ben Hendriksen

Internal council process passed over two councillors who placed their Indigenous backgrounds front-and-centre at Monday special meeting


“Reconciliation is a core value that council continues to champion and uphold.” – the City of Yellowknife Yellowknife’s new mayor is Ben Hendriksen, who has been in an acting role since Rebecca Alty began her successful campaign in April to be the NWT’s new MP. The self-confessed “old-fashioned process guy”…

Featured, News May 2, 2025

Youth MLAs debate drugs, high school drop-out rates and educational funding

Youth Parliament 2025 took place at Yellowknife’s Legislative Assembly on Thursday


19 high school students from across the territory took their seats in the Legislative Assembly chamber on Thursday as part of Youth Parliament 2025, voicing concerns on issues affecting their communities — just like real MLAs. During the two and a half hours session, youth ministers and members raised topics…

Featured, News, Profile April 30, 2025

Cheko hopes to check off essential employability skills for Indigenous youth

CKLB profiles Arctic Inspiration Prize NWT finalists, leading up to the May 13 awards ceremony in Ottawa


The Arctic Inspiration Prize (AIP) has announced the 2025 finalists, which include 18 Northern teams whose ideas and community-driven solutions span food sovereignty, cultural revitalization, language preservation, youth empowerment, and climate leadership. Together, they are eligible for approximately $3.7 million in prize funding — an investment that is designed to…

Featured, News, Police April 29, 2025

Update: RCMP arrest man facing ‘multiple serious charges’ after search

Yellowknife RCMP on Tuesday requested public's assistance in locating Trent T’seleie, considered dangerous


Yellowknife RCMP are asking for the public’s help in locating 29-year-old Trent T’seleie, who is wanted on multiple serious charges. The charges include drug trafficking, assault, and possession of a prohibited firearm. Police say T’seleie was last seen in downtown Yellowknife. He is described as 5 feet 7 inches tall…

Featured, News, Politics April 29, 2025

Liberal Rebecca Alty trades Yellowknife Council Chamber for House of Commons seat

City mayor and former two-term councillor promises to 'work hard to represent you and to be your strong voice in Ottawa'


Liberal Rebecca Alty’s political career keeps soaring, as the current Yellowknife mayor scored a convincing win on Monday over three candidates to be the NWT’s sole MP in the House of Commons. As she celebrated with jubilant supporters in a warehouse full of campaign signage and large posters of Liberal…

Featured, Law courts, News April 27, 2025

Woman wildly wheeling pickup through Bison Estates guilty of dangerous driving causing death

Hannah Lafferty, 24, was trying to shake lover's ex-girlfriend from the truck before it slammed into innocent pedestrian in April 2022


A woman who used her father’s pickup truck “as a weapon” in a lover’s dispute has been found guilty of dangerous driving causing the death of an innocent passerby. On the night of April 21, 2022, 24-year-old Hannah Lafferty was seen speeding and fishtailing in a gravel-and-ice covered roadway and…

Community, Featured, Health, News April 25, 2025

‘There is hope’: New book sheds light on cancer survival in the North

The book features 30 first-hand narratives on combatting cancer in the NWT


Gwich’in cancer survivor Agnes Pascal’s new book, Book of Hope: Healthcare and Survival in the North, documents stories of 30 northerners on what it’s like to experience cancer in remote communities. Pascal was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015. Prior to that, she worked in health care offices booking appointments…