Starting on Monday, the 17th session of the territory’s youth parliament will take place. Nineteen high school students from across the NWT, each representing their riding, will participate in three days of meetings and briefings. In a news release, the Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) says the program is…
May 26th at 6:00 am. You might want to mark that on your calendar – that’s three weeks from this Sunday. That’s when the emergency department at the new Stanton Territorial Hospital will be up and running. It’s not far from the emergency department at the old Stanton, but hospital…
An Inuvik man has been sentenced to two years in jail after he pleaded guilty in a Yellowknife court to assault causing bodily harm on his then girlfriend and sexually assaulting her mother later that same night. CKLB is not identifying the man in order to protect the identities of…
Young people from communities across the NWT are converging on Yellowknife for the 21st Annual Territorial Competition and Career Expo. The opening ceremony is Thursday night at 7:00 at the Yellowknife Multiplex with the competition itself taking place Friday. The Skills Canada NWT Territorial Competition is an Olympic style event…
A preliminary hearing which began Wednesday for a Yellowknife father and son charged with second-degree murder in the death of a city cab driver last fall has adjourned until September. Preliminary hearings are held to determine if there is enough evidence to send the case to trial. Evidence and testimony…
Indigenous people and people in custody are identified in a new report as more vulnerable to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder than the rest of the population. FASD is 10 to 40 times higher in certain groups than the general population according to a study published by Toronto’s Centre for Addiction…
“(Giant Mine Oversight Board) is concerned that the project co-proponents have not fully embraced and integrated the concept of reconciliation within project operations and planning.” That line appears in the first few pages of the latest annual report released by the Giant Mine Oversight Board. “The project provides a really…
Yellowknife RCMP have confirmed the heartbreaking news that a body found near Frame Lake Tuesday morning is that of a missing 15-year old girl. Police stated in a news release that the deceased person has been identified as Cassidy Giroux of Yellowknife. Mounties say that her body was found about…
It’s no secret many people across the territory need to travel for medical reasons. Starting in June, the Department of Health and Social Services is making changes to the Medical Travel Program, which pays a portion of the travel costs for NWT residents who need to access insured health services…
A woman was listed in stable condition after a flight made an emergency landing at Yellowknife Airport Friday after she had gone into medical distress. According to a news release from RCMP, a Delta Airlines flight was en route from Amsterdam, Netherlands to Seattle when it made an emergency landing…