Several hundred environmentally conscious students and other like-minded adults turned out on Friday for a march through Yellowknife’s downtown. The rally, which some students called a strike, culminated with a noon-hour protest rally at Somba K’e Plaza on the shore of Frame Lake beside city hall. The demonstrators were part…
A Yellowknife teenager who nearly stabbed a drug dealer to death, stole his marijuana and beat up a jail guard at the North Slave Correctional Complex (NSCC) has been sentenced to four and a half years in a federal prison. Jordan Charlie, 19, was handed his punishment in territorial court…
Thursday, September 26th is Cybertip.ca Awareness Day and the RCMP in the Northwest Territories says that it is a day to take a stand against online child exploitation and help protect children. In a news release, Mounties state that they have always made it a priority to combat child exploitation…
Charges have been significantly reduced for a Yellowknife father and son duo who were originally charged with second-degree murder in the death of a Yellowknife taxi cab driver in November 2018. Elias Schiller, 19, is now charged with manslaughter and his father, 49-year-old James Schiller now faces a charge of…
Warning: This story discusses domestic violence and homicide. It’s a well-known fact in the Northwest Territories that Indigenous women suffer disproportionate rates of domestic violence. Now there’s a Canada-wide study with a chapter in the NWT that is hoping to speak to survivors of “extreme domestic violence,” and friends and…
It’s the season for moose to be on the move across the Northwest Territories, and for once the territorial government’s numbers and Indigenous traditional knowledge is lining up. The moose population in the Dehcho region is healthy and stable, according the most recent survey from the GNWT’s Department of Environment…
A mass walk out is planned for Friday in Yellowknife by students and other environmentally conscious individuals to protest a lack of action on climate change. According to a news release, students from Yellowknife schools and other concerned residents will walk out of classrooms, homes and workplaces to join in…
Yellowknife RCMP say one man has been charged and another man was sent to hospital following an attack in the city’s downtown core on Tuesday night. According to an RCMP news release, officers responded about 9:30 pm to a reported assault in the area of 50 Avenue and 50 Street….
Another man is recovering from a gun shot wound in the Dehcho Region, this time a hunter from Fort Liard. RCMP in that community are calling a it, “a serious but a non-life threatening injury.” In a press release issued Tuesday, police say that they were called about the incident…
Yellowknife RCMP say they’ve recently investigated two unrelated incidents involving a noxious substance, believed to be bear spray, and have made one arrest RCMP stated in a news release that at approximately 8:15 PM, Friday, police received a complaint unrelated to the noxious substance, at an apartment building on Gitzel…