RCMP say there is still no sign of four fishermen from Hay River who are reported missing on Great Slave Lake. According to a news release, issued by the Mounties late Tuesday morning, Hay River RCMP and the military’s Joint Rescue Command Centre (JRCC), based at Canadian Forces Base Trenton…
RCMP say they have charged a Tuktoyaktuk man with attempted murder after a shooting in that community back on September 22. CKLB first reported that Mounties were called just before 9:00 pm that Sunday after the shooting outside a residence. Police say a 43-year-old man was found inside a nearby…
A search operation is underway after four commercial fishermen were reported overdue in Hay River. According to an RCMP news release, issued over the noon hour Monday, Mounties in Hay River received a report just after 4:00 am Monday that the men were believed to have been travelling by boat…
On Friday, September 27, students and staff at K’alemi Dene school in Ndilo celebrated the tenth anniversary of the new school building. [slide-anything id=”4245″] Later, the school inaugurated the new court as students took on staff in a basketball game.
Mounties in Hay River are investigating after a door was damaged at a local store in an apparent attempted break and enter. According to an RCMP news release, at about 12:20 am, on Thursday, September 19, officers responded to an attempted burglary at a business on Woodland Drive, in downtown…
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…