At least 100 Ndilo and Dettah students will be sporting new backpacks this coming school year. The bags are a donation from Islamic Relief Canada and the Islamic Centre of Yellowknife. Fariha Khan is an Ontario physician temporarily working in Yellowknife. She also sits on the board of Islamic Relief Canada. She…
A Yellowknife criminal defence lawyer is counting his blessings after a CKLB employee discovered a box full of sensitive DVDs, some belonging to him, at the city’s landfill site. Peter Harte thanked CKLB administrator Liselle Cook profusely after she recently found the box containing about 20 DVDs and CDs in…
Yellowknife-based, Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards-winning band Digawolf as well as the Yellowknives Dene Drummers are among the performers who will take to the stage at Sombe K’e Civic Plaza for the City of Yellowknife’s Canada Day celebration on Monday. Also offered beside city hall on Chief Drygeese Territory for the…
From Metis to Dene to Inuvaluit people and well beyond, Yellowknife’s National Indigenous Day celebration was a party, but it was also a recognition of Canada’s rich cultural heritage as a whole. Free fun and free fish, fresh from Great Slave Lake, as well a gorgeous sunny day helped bring…
The Government of the Northwest Territories has closed one territorial park and enacted fire bans at four other parks – all in the South Slave region – due to the threat of wildfires as well as extremely dry forest conditions. According to a news release from the Department of Industry,…
Updated: June 19, 10:30 a.m. to reflect additional comments from ENR on Bathurst report delay According to Indigenous and scientific evidence “a serious conservation concern exists for the Sahtì ekwǫ̀ (Bluenose-East) caribou.” This is one of the conclusions outlined in the Wek’èezhìı Renewable Resources Board’s ruling on the herd’s joint…
Warning: this story contains details of an assault. When Chuckie Nicotine was 17 years old, she hopped into a truck to go get groceries with a male relative. After getting what they needed, he stopped for a few drinks. Nicotine waited in the car. On their way back after the…
École Sir John Franklin High School held its 15th annual Honour Ceremony for Indigenous Graduates on Saturday. (All photos: Francis Tessier-Burns/CKLB). [slide-anything id=’1510′]
When Lesa Semmler was eight years old, her mother, Joyce, was murdered by her common-law partner. Semmler was one of the first women to testify when the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry was in Yellowknife last year. Now, a year and a half later, the inquiry has…
The Government of the Northwest Territories and De Beers Group are partnering on a project that will renovate and reconfigure the Yellowknife Women’s Society’s emergency and transitional housing shelter on Franklin Avenue – what used to be known as the Centre for Northern Families. At a news conference Thursday at…