Zoe update Feb 4/20 A man originally from the North Slave community of Gameti, who had been declared a dangerous offender after convictions for multiple sexual assaults, will get a new dangerous offender hearing. According to a NWT Court of Appeal decision released late last week, 38-year-old Bobby Zoe should…
Several NHL players such as Darcy Tucker, Wendel Clark and Bryan Trottier will be in Yellowknife this week for Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada. CKLB’s Francis Tessier-Burns will be taking part in the Media/MLA all-star game on Saturday. Here is your complete list of events for the week in Yellowknife….
Bryan Trottier, Hockey Hall of Fame legend, grew up playing hockey on a rink that was created by hacking a hole in a beaver dam. Trottier’s father descended from the Cree on his grandpa’s side and Chippewa from his grandma’s side. “Every winter Dad would plug the river, we had…
A traffic stop led to the seizure of dozens of bottles and cans of alcohol in Délįne this past weekend. According to a news release, on Saturday police conducted a traffic stop on the ice road going into the community. Officers then seized 20 375-mL bottles of vodka, a bottle…
RCMP in Inuvik worked with Grade 8 students from East Three Secondary School last week on mental health issues and how to best deal with them. According to a news release from the Mounties, students listened last Thursday to a videoconference by YouTube personality and author Joey Kidney on the…
The GNWT and Tłı̨chǫ Government will help support the barren-ground caribou recovery in the NWT by culling wolves. George Mackenzie is the Grand Chief of the Tłı̨chǫ Government. “The caribou are in danger and we all need to want to do more to assist in their recovery,” Grand Chief Mackenzie…
The Yellowknife Canadian Tire in partnership with the Hockey Canada Foundation (HCF) is making the dream of playing hockey come true for 30 children in the NWT. Every season, the HCF Dreams Come True program reaches thousands of young Canadians through a variety of programs designed to get more people…
Foster families in the Northwest Territories may be breathing a little easier now that they have the ear of the territory’s health and social services minister. It comes after foster parents told the territorial government earlier this month that foster children’s well being was being jeopardized by some uncaring and…
The first Community Housing Plan in Whatì has been concluded. “The Whatì Community Housing Plan is an important step in this process to strengthen the trust and relationships between communities and the Territorial government,” Alfonz Nitsiza, Chief of the Whatì Community Government said. The Community Housing Plan represents an extensive,…
Crown prosecutors in Yellowknife have yet to decide if they will launch an appeal into the four-year jail sentence handed to a Yellowknife man who killed a City Cab driver back in November of 2018. Senior Crown prosecutor Alex Godfrey spoke with CKLB Thursday. “We have 60 days from the…