An veteran RCMP officer, currently based in Yellowknife, but well-known elsewhere in the Northwest Territories, has won a national highway safety award. Sergeant Todd Scaplen is the 2019 Recipient of the Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators (CCMTA) Police Partnership Award. Introduced in 2007, the CCMTA Police Partnership Award honours…
Yellowknife-based, Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards-winning band Digawolf as well as the Yellowknives Dene Drummers are among the performers who will take to the stage at Sombe K’e Civic Plaza for the City of Yellowknife’s Canada Day celebration on Monday. Also offered beside city hall on Chief Drygeese Territory for the…
Stating that commemoration is a powerful way to honour truths, support healing, create awareness, and advance reconciliation, the federal government says it is investing over $13 million in over 100 commemoration initiatives from coast to coast to coast to help honour the lives and legacies of missing and murdered Indigenous…
An NWT Territorial Court judge is to deliver her verdict on August 26 after a trial last week in Inuvik for a man charged with killing a polar bear out of season. 31-year-old Justin Elias of Inuvik says he shot and killed the bear last summer in self-defence. Elias has…
It was a history-making morning Tuesday for the co-owners of the Gahcho Kué Diamond Mine, one of the largest employers in the Northwest Territories. Stuart Brown, President and CEO of Mountain Province Diamonds opened the Toronto Stock Exchange to celebrate 20 years listed on the market. Mountain Province Diamonds is a…
A Yellowknife man is charged with several offences after the Circle K convenience store, commonly known as Winks, at Forrest Drive and Franklin Avenue was robbed twice this year. The latest came just over two weeks ago on June 7 when a man entered the store and threatened the clerk…
RCMP in Yellowknife have located a missing 17-year-old boy. Spencer Lockhart had been reported missing on Sunday evening after leaving Stanton Territorial Hospital. As is their policy, RCMP have not said where he was located nor when. They stated in a news release just before 5:00 p.m. Tuesday that he…
A man from the Mackenzie Delta community of Fort McPherson has been sentenced to just under three years in jail after he pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of his cousin. Darcy Nerysoo, 31, who was initially charged with second-degree murder, received his punishment last week in court in…
Monday is travel day for members of the Dehcho First Nations. Youth from Wrigley, SambaaKe, Deh Gah Gotie and Liidlii Kue paddled to Fort Simpson this weekend from Fort Providence. Savvy Norwegian who works with the Liidlii Kue First Nation, this year’s host community shared this video capturing the moment…
The Government of Canada says it has taken action to respect the rights and interests of Indigenous peoples, protect Canada’s rich natural environment, and support a resilient and sustainable Canadian natural resource sector. The statement comes after the passage into law of Bill C-88, An Act to Amend the Mackenzie…