Mounties in the Mackenzie Delta community of Fort McPherson say they stopped 144 bottles of liquor from entering the community, where alcohol is restricted under the NWT Liquor Act. There is a set amount of booze any one person can bring into the community. According to a news release from…
New Democrats from the Northwest Territories finally have a candidate for the upcoming federal election. According to a news release from the NWT Federal NDP Electoral District Association, Inuvik resident Mary Beckett will be their candidate. The NDP is the last of the main federal parties to announce their candidate…
A 36-year-old man who was attacked in front of Yellowknife’s Day Shelter earlier this week has died. CKLB’s John McFadden originally reported Mark Poodlat’s injury and being in critical condition. RCMP issued a press release Thursday afternoon stating that the Poodlat family informed them of his sudden passing in and…
Edjericon is back on the ticket. Richard Edjericon, a former chief of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation, and former chair of the Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board is joining the race for MLA in the riding of Tu Nedhe-Wiilideh. In 2015 he was defeated by incumbent Tom Beaulieu. Beaulieu…
It was a day of sad, dramatic and at times difficult testimony to listen to as a preliminary hearing was held in Yellowknife Wednesday for a man left a quadriplegic in an incident last year in the Sahtu community of Colville Lake. Eddy Cook Jr., 56, from Fort Good Hope,…
The federal government is investing in its “gateway to the North” says Minister of National Defence Harjit S. Sajjan. Sajjan was in Yellowknife on Wednesday to announce $150 million in funding over five years to extend the runway at Inuvik’s Mike Zubko Airport by more than 900 meters. The money…
The Government of the Northwest Territories is facing a 20 million dollar representative action lawsuit over it’s number of privacy breaches. Steven Cooper, a former resident of the NWT and lawyer based in Edmonton is one of the litigators representing residents whose personal health records have been breached. Cooper says…
A 36-year-old man is fighting for his life in an Edmonton hospital after he was punched in the head several times during an attack Tuesday afternoon in front of the downtown Yellowknife sobering centre on 50 St. According to RCMP, about 5:40 p.m. Tuesday evening, officers responded to a call…
A former Yellowknife man has been declared a dangerous offender and imprisoned for 14 years to be followed by ten years of long-term supervision after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl in Hay River in 2014. Cody Durocher, 34, was handed his punishment in Supreme Court in…
The former Speaker of the NWT Legislative Assembly has announced that he is running to become the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the riding on Nunakput. Jackie Jacobson was the MLA for the riding from 2007 to 2015 and was the Speaker for his second term. He says his…