While the investigation isn’t over, Yellowknife RCMP have charged Billy McNeely and Aaron Stoodley in connection to a shooting on May 26. According to a police news release, officers responded to a call in the early hours of the morning at Grayling Manor on 53rd street in Yellowknife. Police found…
What do the premiers of Alberta, Ontario, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick have in common? They’re all opposed to the federal plan to price carbon emissions. They’re also the only provinces part of a special meeting with NWT Premier Bob McLeod taking place today in Calgary. Trista Haugland is communications coordinator…
At least 100 Ndilo and Dettah students will be sporting new backpacks this coming school year. The bags are a donation from Islamic Relief Canada and the Islamic Centre of Yellowknife. Fariha Khan is an Ontario physician temporarily working in Yellowknife. She also sits on the board of Islamic Relief Canada. She…
Updated July 5, 5 p.m.: The monument has been removed. The bronze-coloured soldiers and angel appear to be falling from their pedestal. Broken shards of the monument lay in the grass nearby. The monument certainly looks as though it was deliberately broken. Cabin Radio originally reported the vandalism incident Friday…
Osama Nawaz will be appearing in court in Yellowknife on Monday facing cocaine trafficking charges among others. The 19-year-old was apprehended earlier this week following an Inuvik RCMP investigation and search warrant. Police seized about one ounce of crack cocaine and more 4,000 dollars. According to RCMP, Nawaz is originally…
Updated July 5. Yellowknife RCMP has sent out a news release saying Audrea Meyok has been located safe and sound. Police had initially sent a news release asking for help locating the 35-year-old woman who had last been seen at the Circle K at the intersection of Franklin Ave. and…
Canada narrowly missed having Wood Buffalo National Park added to UNESCO’s List of World Heritage in Danger. According to a Canadian Press story picked up by multiple Canadian news outlets, “the park’s status could be endangered because of impacts from hydro development in British Columbia and dozens of oilsands projects…
Two competing Indigenous groups are hoping to become the new owners of the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline. Project Reconciliation, which is made up of First Nations and Métis communities from Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan has recently said in a news release that it’s willing to purchase 51 per cent…
Five people who were reported missing have been found safe in the Terry Lake area, according to RCMP. The group had been reported overdue late on July 1 after they’d left Tibbit Lake two days earlier and were expected to be back in Yellowknife. RCMP originally said the group consisted…
The Tlicho community of Behchoko had a bit of a scare last week as at least one wildfire crept to about ten kilometres from the community. That information came Tuesday from Richard Olsen, the Fort Smith-based manager of fire operations for the NWT’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR)….