Residents of Fort Smith are assessing the damage and cleaning up after a powerful storm Sunday that some people in the South Slave community are describing as a tornado. There are no reports of injuries but residents have posted to social media photos and video of damage to buildings and…
Yellowknife RCMP are investigating a report of a suspicious man in a car who demanded a 12-year-old girl get into his vehicle. Police state in a news release issued yesterday that they received information Saturday evening about the girl who was riding her bicycle in the Finlayson Dr. and Banke…
Two Indigenous MLAs have criticized the government’s affirmative action policy in as many days. Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Tom Beaulieu and Deh Cho MLA Michael Nadli took aim at the policy this week in the Legislative Assembly. “I am not convinced that our government is committed to increasing the number of…
The highway linking Hay River to High Level Alberta has now reopened fully to traffic in both directions. Northwest Territories Mackenzie Highway #1 and Alberta Highway 35 had been closed earlier this week due to wildfires near Steen River. The fire crossed the highway in Alberta and also destroyed a…
A GoFundMe page has been set up for the victim of a house fire in Yellowknife on Wednesday evening. Maria Ecklund has now been identified on social media as the woman who was medevaced to Edmonton with serious injuries after her cabin on Drybones Drive in Kam Lake burned. Two…
CKLB has learned that RCMP are investigating after a corrections officer went to hospital following an altercation at the North Slave Correctional Complex (NSCC) in Yellowknife on Tuesday. According to an email sent to CKLB on Thursday, Yellowknife RCMP were called to NSCC following an incident between an inmate and…
Yellowknife RCMP are investigating after a man was stabbed late Wednesday night at a Dorset Apartments on 53 St. near 52 Ave., not far from the city’s downtown. It’s the second violent incident at an apartment building on 53 St. in the past four days. According to an email from…
A man whose body was found near Fort Liard earlier this month was not killed by a bear. That information was confirmed Wednesday in a news release from Cathy Menard, the Chief Coroner of the Northwest Territories. She adds that autopsy results have not yet been received and a cause…
Conflicting reports are coming out of Northern Alberta this morning. Initially CTV News had reported some homes in Paddle Prarie, 7o kilometres south of High Level had burned. The ChuckKegg fire is the same one that has pushed over 4000 people from High Level, Meander River, Bushe River and Chateh…
A jury has found a Lutsel K’e man not guilty of sexual assault after a three-day trial in Yellowknife. The jury, made up of seven women and five men, took less than two hours to acquit Paul Catholique, 43, on Wednesday. This was actually his second trial following the alleged…