The City of Yellowknife has implemented a mandatory open air burning ban. The ban, which includes the use of approved fire pits within the city, came into effect over the noon hour on Friday. Due to very dry conditions and no indication of rain forecast throughout the weekend, Yellowknife’s Fire…
A wildfire has Yellowknife’s attention and beyond after photos were posted to social media Thursday showing a huge, drifting plume of smoke that was quite visible from any high rise building in the capital city. According to the territorial government’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources the fire, roughly towards…
Thomas Gagnon-van Leeuwen says Canadians “deserve” to know how the aspiring prime ministers will approach the climate emergency. Gagnon-van Leeuwen is an organizer with Our Time Yellowknife, the local chapter of the national group. Our Time is pushing for a Green New Deal, essentially a set of policies to tackle…
Two American tourists were left stranded on Sunday after a grizzly bear destroyed their canoe. The couple were on a canoe trip in the area of Hanbury Lake, about 480 kilometres east of Yellowknife. They radioed the International Emergency Response Coordination Centre (IERCC), a global search and rescue dispatch centre….
Updated July 17, 1:30 p.m. with information from RCMP. The Town of Fort Smith is hoping residents can help find two stolen iPads. In a post on social media, officials said the Mary Kaeser Library was broken into over the weekend. RCMP confirmed officers responded to a break and enter…
RCMP say someone may have intentionally knocked out the internet and phone signal in Yellowknife over the weekend. On Saturday, landlines, cellphones and internet services were down for most of the city and some surrounding communities. In a news release, police say a “criminal act” likely occurred that morning, July…
Daniel Masuzumi was elected on Monday, taking over from Wilfred McNeely Jr. Here’s what Masuzumi wants to get done first. He added that homelessness was another issue he wants to tackle, saying he wanted to offer better support for people to get out of poverty. That also means looking for…
For a place that doesn’t even have a carbon tax yet, the Premier has made a lot of noise about the issue. Again last week, he sat shoulder to shoulder with provincial premiers fighting the federal carbon pricing plan in court. The fact there’s no carbon tax in the NWT…
“We want to be as one.” That’s what Ndilo Chief Ernest Betsina told reporters after the City of Yellowknife supported the Yellowknives Dene First Nation push to re-draw the boundaries between the two communities. In June, YKDFN council passed a resolution supporting the changes. The most noticeable difference would come…
As speakers mostly chose to pat themselves on the back in completing the $350-million Stanton Territorial Hospital “on time and on budget” as Minister Caroline Cochrane repeated on behalf of the premier, the staffing shortages and service interruptions went largely unmentioned. Cochrane added that the new hospital is designed to…