Monday evening saw round two of Dene Nahjo’s election forum and featured Frame Lake candidates: Dave Ramsay and Kevin O’Reilly; Yellowknife Centre candidates: Julie Green, Thom Jarvis, Arlene Hache and Niels Konge; and for Range Lake: Caroline Cochrane and Hughie Graham. As in the first forum, the themes of the…
A former Yellowknife gymnastics coach has been sentenced to one year in jail after he pleaded guilty to child luring for sending a photo of his private parts to a teenage female gymnast he had once coached. Ricky Lee Sutherland, 50, who now lives in Ontario, was also placed on…
Yellowknife RCMP have arrested a 25-year-old woman after a man was wounded in a reported stabbing Sunday afternoon at or near Sunridge Place Apartments on 51A Avenue on the edge of the city’s downtown. Mounties stated in an email to CKLB Monday that officers responded to the area over ther…
RCMP say a man has been arrested and is facing charges after another man was reportedly shot in the community of Tuktoyaktuk Sunday evening. According to an email from RCMP, at approximately 8:50 pm on Sunday, Tuktoyatuk RCMP received a call for service about an incident involving firearm at a…
Land. Language. Culture. Those are the themes at Dene Nahjo’s election forum that kicked off on Sunday evening. The first forum featured all three candidates from Yellowknife North: Rylund Johnson, Jan Vallilee, and incumbent Cory Vanthuyne; both candidates for Great Slave: Patrick Scott and Katrina Nockleby; and only two candidates…
Dennis Nelner, a 54-year-old man from Fort Simpson, has confirmed for CKLB that he is the victim of a shooting by an Environment and Natural Resources officer in that Dehcho community on Friday night. Nelner was taken to Stanton Territorial Hospital in Yellowknife, reportedly by Medevac. A photo of him…
A well-known Yellowknife bartender said her goodbyes on the weekend as she bid an emotional farewell to the city and the bar she has called home for the past 14 years. Jenna Conrad has tended bar at the Raven Pub in downtown Yellowknife since 2005. She says she came here…
(UPDATE) For the second time in a week, Hay River RCMP have appealed for the public’s help to locate a missing teenage boy, only to have him found safe and sound hours later. Hay River RCMP asked for the public’s assistance Monday in locating 14-year-old Dallas Casaway-Gray. In a news…
If Lianne Mantla-Look had listened to a doctor in Edmonton, she may have come back to Yellowknife without ever treating her stomach cancer. Instead, she stuck around and was convinced there was something wrong with her. She had to fight to have a series of biopsies done—more than 50 cross-sections…
RCMP are investigating after a man was shot by Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) officer in the Dehcho community of Fort Simpson. Mounties stated in a news release Saturday that it happened on Friday when the ENR officer shot at a bear that was within the town’s boundary and was…