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Featured, News, Politics March 14, 2025

Private smoking in public housing to be butted out across the NWT

Policy to be implemented in a staged approach for Housing NWT-owned units, including market rentals


Housing Minister Lucy Kuptana on Thursday told the NWT Assembly smoking will not be permitted in all new buildings and in any new or amended leases for existing public housing and market rentals. She said: “Eliminating smoking in our owned units will have positive health outcomes for our residents and…

Featured, News, Police March 13, 2025

Luxury vehicle stop in Sahtu nets RCMP fentanyl, meth, cocaine and a revolver

‘These drugs and guns may have gone on to inflict significant harm were it not for community members willing to share this vital information,” says officer


Police in Norman Wells have charged two men after public tips led to a winter road traffic stop that yielded “over a pound” of various drugs and a firearm, stated an RCMP release. In total, approximately 247 grams of methamphetamine, 194 grams of cocaine, and 13 grams of fentanyl were…

Featured, News, Politics March 13, 2025

Elders can be financially, emotionally abused by family members seeking cash for illegal drugs

'I've heard about people pressuring elders for pension cheque money. It's like they are trapped, and their money belongs to others,' says MLA Sheryl Yakeleya


Seniors are too often mistreated by the very people responsible for their care, this can include financial abuse by younger family members pressuring them for cash to buy illegal drugs, says an MLA. Dehcho MLA Sheryl Yakeleya told the NWT Assembly on Wednesday that there is an urgent need to…

Featured, News, Politics March 12, 2025

‘Policies and procedures protect the criminals,’ says angry MLA

Mackenzie Delta's George Nerysoo says Housing NWT units in Fort McPherson are openly used as drug dens


A clearly frustrated elected official from a small Gwich’in community says complaints of drug dealing in public housing are ignored by authorities at all levels. Mackenzie Delta MLA George Nerysoo said he was confronted on the weekend by residents of his home community, Teetl’it Zheh (Fort McPherson), who are fed…

Featured, Housing, News, Reconciliation March 11, 2025

A safe, stable place to stay for those returning from Southern recovery centres

Long-awaited transitional housing pilot program for addictions recovery in the NWT will take first residents in April


“We can restore and bring back our humanness, based on our principles and our values.” — Łutsel K’e Elder Felix Lockhart A longstanding missing piece of the addictions recovery puzzle in the Northwest Territories has been found in the shape of a two-storey house in Yellowknife’s Forrest Drive neighbourhood. This…

Denedeh Sunrise, Featured, News March 11, 2025

Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen visits the Northwest Territories

Hansen's mission patch for moon orbit was created by a Manitoba Indigenous artist


Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen will land in the Northwest Territories this week to visit schools in Dettah, Ndılǫ, Łútsël K’é and Yellowknife. The astronaut, fighter pilot, physicist and former aquanaut is the first Canadian astronaut on a lunar mission, joining a crew to orbit the moon in 2026. Hansen’s mission patch…