An active wildfire has claimed a cabin to the northeast of Fort Smith. According to Mike Westwick, spokesperson for NWT Fire, the cabin’s owner has been notified. Crews flew over the area on Monday and saw the remnants of the cabin. “This was due to a combination of extreme winds…
The Nahʔą Dehé Dene Band in Nahanni Butte has a new on-the-land guardianship program in the works. The Nahʔą Dehé K’ehodi program is part of a recent agreement between the band, Dehcho First Nations and Parks Canada to advance the co-management of Nahanni National Park Reserve. According to Soham Srimani,…
Tuktoyaktuk artist Brian Kowikchuk has just finished his biggest mural project to date. He created a pair of murals, inspired by the mother of sea creatures, the Inuit legend of Sedna, Nuliayuk or Taluliyuk. The murals are called Ancestral Blessings and it highlights the interworkings of the spiritual and material worlds….
A missing Yellowknife woman was found “safe and sound” on Sunday evening, hours after police issued a call for public help. Twenty nine year-old Sarah Gullberg was first declared missing on Sunday evening after her family had not seen her for several days. She was confirmed found by the RCMP…
Communities across the country are marking the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation this Friday, including many communities across the Northwest Territories. Here’s just some of what’s happening across the NWT this Friday: Aklavik In Aklavik, activities will start at 1:00 p.m. with a walk from Mission grounds to…
A herring gull found in Yellowknife’s Niven Lake neighbourhood is the first confirmed case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in the territory. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) confirmed on Wednesday the bird, which was referred to wildlife officers in June, was confirmed this month as a…
A vaccine against the monkeypox virus is now available to select residents of the NWT. A limited supply of the Imvamune vaccine became available in the NWT on Monday. The vaccine is designed to protect against infection and disease rather than as a treatment. The virus can transmit from person…
Growing up in Behchokǫ̀, Diga spoke only Tłı̨chǫ until the age of ten. Now, the two-time Juno-nominated singer-songwriter, along with his band Digawolf, is returning to his heritage with his first all-Tłı̨chǫ album in more than a decade. Ini is the follow-up to 2020’s High Arctic, and his seventh release…
A spokesperson for the Department of Environment and Natural Resources says there will be a review of the “enforcement action” taken at a culture camp hosted by Łútsël K’é Dene First Nation — but not an investigation. LKDFN has described the event as a “raid”. “We are planning to engage…
The lone suspect in a series of stabbings in Fort Good Hope has turned himself in to authorities. In a press conference on Thursday evening, RCMP Supt. Jeffrey Christie said McNeely had turned himself in to authorities earlier that evening. A motive for the crime has still not been established,…