The Yellowknives Dene First Nation (YKDFN) and City of Yellowknife are partnering in a new opportunity to increase economic development in Yellowknife, Ndilo and Dettah. The two governments have been chosen as successful joint applicants to the First Nations – Municipal Community Economic Development Initiative program. According to a news…
Yellowknife RCMP are investigating a sudden death in the city earlier this month. In a news release, Mounties state that a man from Yellowknife was found in medical distress early morning on June 2. He was subsequently transported by Medevac to Edmonton where he died on June 3, police stated….
Yellowknife RCMP are investigating yet another armed robbery at a convenience store in the city. Police state in a news release that the Circle K Convenience at Forrest Drive and Franklin Ave., otherwise known as Mac’s or Winks, was held up early Thursday night by a suspect, brandishing a knife….
After being missing in action for the past several months, strippers have returned to Harley’s Hard Rock Saloon in downtown Yellowknife as the business has come under new ownership. Harley’s is the only establishment north of the 60th parallel in Canada that offers exotic dancers. Yellowknife resident Scott Yuill says…
“There have been several emergency situations over the years and across the territory where having a 911 service would have improved response times and, in some cases, even saved lives.” Despite this acknowledgement of the need for 911 in the territory, Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs Alfred Moses said…
A Behchoko man has been sentenced to 150 days in jail after he pleaded guilty to punching a woman in the face without provocation and sexually assaulting a male cellmate inside the Behchoko RCMP detachment. Joey Eyakfwo, 45, apologized to his victims in a Yellowknife courtroom Friday before he was…
The Government of the Northwest Territories and De Beers Group are partnering on a project that will renovate and reconfigure the Yellowknife Women’s Society’s emergency and transitional housing shelter on Franklin Avenue – what used to be known as the Centre for Northern Families. At a news conference Thursday at…
The Hamlet of Aklavik has seen three new accessibility ramps built and for that it has been recognized with the NWT Human Rights Commission Accessibility Award. The award recognizes new and existing physical and/or non-physical accommodations that businesses or governments make to increase accessibility to their services. Aklavik recently completed…
Wait and see what happens. That’s essentially the first of three recommendations made by the Special Committee to Increase the Representation of Women. The committee released its final report earlier this week in the Legislative Assembly. Building on interim report The territory has the lowest percentage of women in its…
Two men have been arrested in a police takedown in Yellowknife after a cabbie was hurt when he was robbed behind a downtown apartment building. RCMP state in a news release that they were called about 7:30 Wednesday morning to an alley behind the Grayling Manor apartment on 53 St….