Chaplain and lay minister Jim Lynn got a terrible shock when he went for his routine visit to the Dettah cemetery on Monday. August 24th will be the third anniversary of when his son Mark went missing near the Yellowknives Dene Community on the eastern shore across from Yellowknife. “People…
Residents of Indian Cabins, Alberta have been forced to leave the community. Mackenzie County issued a mandatory evacuation order on Monday due to a wildfire in the area. Byron Peters is the deputy chief administrative officer of Mackenzie County. He said the county spoke with residents, who said they preferred…
École Sir John Franklin High School held its 15th annual Honour Ceremony for Indigenous Graduates on Saturday. (All photos: Francis Tessier-Burns/CKLB). [slide-anything id=’1510′]
An Edmonton man, who is originally from Fort Smith, has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for pouring gasoline on a house in Fort Smith and threatening to set it and a woman inside the home on fire. A Yellowknife court heard that Joseph Emile, 31, was intoxicated when…
The ballots have been cast, and results are in. Members of the Smith’s Landing First Nation in Northern Alberta, just minutes away from Fort Smith, have elected Gerry Cheezie as their new chief. Cheezie was in leadership back in the 1970’s and 80’s when the community shared a band council…
About two dozen Grade 4 students from Weledeh Catholic School in Yellowknife, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, have a new-found appreciation for the Dene culture after spending two days out on the land. After receiving a $5,000 grant from the NWT On the Land Collaborative, teacher Sonja Hunt rode with her…
Folks in Gameti are getting off the couch and getting active! With less than a week to go in the Participaction Community Better Challenge , the fly-in Tlicho Community is ranked 12th in the top 20 communities from across Canada in the running for the healthy competition. $150,000 dollars is…
A preliminary hearing for a young woman from the DehCho community of Fort Liard, charged with second-degree murder, is to resume Friday in Yellowknife. Selena Lomen, 21, is charged in the stabbing death of Danny Klondike, 34, last October in Fort Liard. The hearing began Wednesday in that community. Preliminary…
Saying he kept cabinet accountable during his first term in office, MLA Kevin O’Reilly has announced he will seek re-election in the Yellowknife riding of Frame Lake. The territorial election will be held on October 1st, less than three weeks before the federal election on October 21. In a news…
When Lesa Semmler was eight years old, her mother, Joyce, was murdered by her common-law partner. Semmler was one of the first women to testify when the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry was in Yellowknife last year. Now, a year and a half later, the inquiry has…