Mary Beckett is the NDP’s candidate for the upcoming federal election, and the first of CKLB’s candidate profiles. Beckett has lived in Inuvik for 35 years and has spent most of that time helping individuals and small businesses grow. She spoke with Francis Tessier-Burns on bringing a green economy to…
An Aklavik man had to be medevaced to Edmonton with life-threatening injuries following an assault. About 4:40 p.m. on Sunday, October 6, Aklavik RCMP responded to call of a man lying on the ground in front of a residence. When RCMP arrived, community members were on their way to the…
The City of Yellowknife is asking resident to review its proposed community plan. In a news release, the city says the plan is the “road map for how land will be used and planned for the next 20 years.” The city says it’s been collecting background data for the upcoming…
A Yellowknife city councillor says she has a difficult time believing the RCMP’s claim that officers conducted 51 downtown foot patrols in August, including about 15 of them aimed at the sobering centre and day shelter on 50th Street. Stacie Smith, who also operates a flower shop at the YK…
RCMP now say that after an extensive aerial and water-based search since Monday, they are now in recovery mode for four commercial fishermen missing on Great Slave Lake since last weekend. In a news release issued Friday afternoon, Mounties stated that under the circumstances and with the low probability of…
A Yellowknife-area man does not want to be called a hero but he is being credited with possibly saving a man’s life after two boats crashed head-on Thursday on Great Slave Lake, not far from Yellowknife Bay. Three men in total are probably thankful to be alive after the harrowing…
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…
A Yellowknife father and son duo have pleaded guilty to reduced charges in connection to the death of a Yellowknife cab driver in 2018. 20-year old Elias Schiller pleaded guilty to manslaughter while his father James Schiller, 49, pleaded guilty to being an accessory to aggravated assault. Both pleas were…
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…