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Community, Featured, News May 8, 2023

Fort Resolution to be placed under administration due to financial difficulties

Minister of MACA Shane Thompson to 'release council from their duties and appoint a Municipal Administrator.'

The community of Fort Resolution will soon be placed under administration due to “financial and operational difficulties,” according to the Department of Municipal and Community…

Community, Education, Featured, Health, News May 5, 2023

Inuvik high school students channel love of fitness for science

William Rodgers and Rylan Wainman will present their study on steroid acceptance at this year's Canada-wide Science Fair

William Rodgers and Rylan Wainman couldn’t stop talking about their workouts. Their philosophy teacher called them “meatheads.” Rather than quiet down, the two students of…

Community, Featured, News May 4, 2023

‘I was freezing cold and I was feeling helpless’: Behchokǫ̀ man locked out of care

Warning: Some scenes and imagery may be disturbing to some audiences. Mark Dryneck spent hours roaming the streets of Yellowknife seeking shelter and aid but…

Featured, News, Newscasts, Politics April 28, 2023

Dehcho First Nations’ support of UNDRIP legislation ‘up in the air’: grand chief

A month after it was introduced, six parties to the legislation have still not signed on

There was much fanfare when the GNWT introduced new legislation last month to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)….

Featured, News April 20, 2023

Fillet, fry, feast: An afternoon at a women’s trapper course

The Department of ECC's trapping program was recently expanded to the Yellowknife Women's Society

Growing up in Churchill, Manitoba, Brenda O’Connor remembers times when fish was served for every meal. That’s all we ever ate all summer long was…

Featured, News April 20, 2023

Yellowknife COVID clinic comes to a close

As of April 29, residents can no longer access COVID-19 or monkeypox vaccines at the Yellowknife Covid clinic inside Centre Square Mall. However, services will…

Community, Featured, Justice, News, Police April 20, 2023

Update: Suspect in sexual assault apprehended by police

Alex Roche was apprehended on Thursday

An NWT man wanted in connection with a sexual assault has been found by police. Twenty-eight-year-old Alex Roche was apprehended on Thursday, according to an…

Featured, News April 18, 2023

‘Ashamed of SRFN’: Membership left in the dark following band shuffle

Six months after the elected chief's first suspension, a political 'hostage' situation drags on in Salt River

Tensions and tempers ran high at a meeting for members of the Salt River First Nation in January. Jeannie Marie-Jewell, a distinguished SRFN Elder, was…

Community, Featured, Justice, News, Police April 17, 2023

‘Special police activity’ in Hay River was a series of drug-related raids

Eleven people have been arrested and charged as a result of this operation

A “special police operation” that took place in Hay River late last week was a series of drug-related raids, according to RCMP. The raids were…

Community, Featured, News April 14, 2023

Legislative Assembly mace coming to Beaufort Delta communities

The mace has visited 11 of the territory’s 33 communities since 2006

Last updated Friday, April 14 at 12:15 p.m. The mace of the legislative assembly is coming to the communities of the Beaufort Delta later this…