Foster families in the Northwest Territories may be breathing a little easier now that they have the ear of the territory’s health and social services minister. It comes after foster parents told the territorial government earlier this month that foster children’s well being was being jeopardized by some uncaring and…
The first Community Housing Plan in Whatì has been concluded. “The Whatì Community Housing Plan is an important step in this process to strengthen the trust and relationships between communities and the Territorial government,” Alfonz Nitsiza, Chief of the Whatì Community Government said. The Community Housing Plan represents an extensive,…
Crown prosecutors in Yellowknife have yet to decide if they will launch an appeal into the four-year jail sentence handed to a Yellowknife man who killed a City Cab driver back in November of 2018. Senior Crown prosecutor Alex Godfrey spoke with CKLB Thursday. “We have 60 days from the…
It’s now been more than four weeks since a Yellowknife woman disappeared without a trace, and RCMP say they are still actively looking for information that might help them locate Sladjana Petrovic. The 60-year-old woman, originally from Serbia, went missing on December 26, from her downtown apartment. Sladjana was reportedly…
The public is invited to a screening this Saturday, Feb. 1, at the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre in Yellowknife called “Turning Points.” It’s a series of eight documentary shorts about alcohol, addiction, resilience and recovery in northern communities. The short films are co-created with local Indigenous storytellers and…
A Yellowknife man will serve just over two more years in custody after he admitted he chased down a Yellowknife cab driver in November 2018 and beat him to death. 20-year-old Elias Schiller was sentenced to four years in jail in Supreme Court In Yellowknife Tuesday, after he had earlier…
A Fort Good Hope man has been found guilty of manslaughter in the death of Lloyd Edgi in that Sahtu community in 2017. 26-year-old Colten McNeely was convicted in Supreme Court in Yellowknife Tuesday. He was initially charged with murder after stabbing the 28 year old Edgi in the chest…
A suspect arrested by RCMP for armed robberies and break and enter in Whitehorse has now been charged with assaulting Mounties in Inuvik. According to a news release from police, Corey Cardinal, who was arrested in Inuvik last weekend, is now facing two charges of assaulting a police officer causing…
Digawolf is heading to this year’s JUNO Awards, the album Yellowstone has been nominated for Indigenous Artist or Group of the Year. “It’s quite an honour to be nominated,” Jesse Gon, Digawolf frontman said. “I’m in Toronto right now and it’s quite an awesome feeling.” Digawolf, who is a highly…
There was an alleged break and enter which occurred on Monday night in Yellowknife which the RCMP is investigating. According to the RCMP, at approximately 10:07 p.m., January 27th, the Yellowknife RCMP received a call for service regarding a break and enter at a building on 50th Street, Coyote’s Bistro…