A Yellowknife man, charged with attempted murder after a vicious New Year’s Eve stabbing, is to be back in court on Oct. 4 for a preliminary hearing. Tariq St. Croix, 24, made a brief appearance in a Yellowknife Court on Tuesday by video from the North Slave Correctional Complex. He…
Northerners—especially youth—have more career paths than just working the mines, says James Heidema. Heidema is the Chief Operating Officer of Northwestern Air Lease (NWAL), which recently opened its Terry Harrold School of Aviation in partnership with the Pentecostal Sub-arctic Leadership Training (SaLT) College. As airlines are getting more and more…
To kick off National Nurses Week, the Government of the Northwest Territories and the Registered Nurses Association of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut (RNANT/NU) signed and Memorandum of Understanding to introduce a single regulatory body for all nurses in the territory. Right now, nursing positions are registered differently—if at all—in…
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) now says it will investigate after a Buffalo Airways plane was forced to make an emergency landing off the runway last week near the Hay River Airport. In a news release, the TSB states that it’s deploying a team of investigators to the…
For the first time in the Northwest Territories, the federal Green Party has two people seeking the nomination to run in this fall’s general election. The two candidates are former City Councillor and lawyer Paul Falvo and William Gagnon. Green members will be voting on Friday May 10th at the…
A man from Inuvik who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a sleeping woman in that community has been sentenced at two and a half years in jail. Jordan Amos, 27, told his lawyer that due to his level of intoxication on November 19th, 2017, he has little memory of the…
The Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) has announced that the nomination period for the riding of Northwest Territories is now open. A news release invites all interested members to submit nomination applications no later thatn May 16th a 3:00 pm local time. After the end of the two-week period, there…
Yellowknife’s only Indigenous member of city council says if residents really want to try to help the city’s street people then the “us versus them” mentality has to stop. Stacie Smith says we are all human beings, we all live in Yellowknife and we should all be in this together….
Ahead of the wildfire season, Yellowknife firefighters are going door-to-door giving FireSmarting advice to residents whose properties back on to forested area. According to a news release from the city, firefighters are providing information on how residents can limit forest fire damage through FireSmarting techniques. Those techniques include cleaning up…
After a packed meeting on Tuesday evening, the Government of the Northwest Territories’ Standing Committee on Economic Development and Environment held a second meeting Thursday night to hear from the public. The discussion covered three Bills: the Protected Areas Act (Bill 38), the Environmental Rights Act (Bill 39), and the…