30 grams of cocaine and 17 grams of cannabis products, oxycodone pills, and $7200 cash have been seized by Fort Providence Police. Three adults have been arrested and charged after a traffic stop on May 16, led police to find illicit materials and other paraphernalia in the vehicle. The vehicle…
“This is starting to feel like we’re cursed or something,” says Joanne Barnaby after witnessing the fires consume her community. Barnaby is a resident of Hay River and lives right across the pond from the Kátł’odeeche First Nation (KFN). She watched the fire consume the reserve. On the night of…
The Chief Executive Officer of the Salt River First Nation (SRFN) will resign from her position before the end of the month. Elizabeth Westwell confirmed via email on Wednesday she is resigning from her position effective Friday, May 26. “I have enjoyed my work as CEO immensely and want nothing…
Anne Kasper remembers pitch-black smoke consuming the sky and an “unbearable” smell in the air like burning moss. “We don’t know what happened,” said Kasper, a 54-year-old resident of the K’atl’odeeche First Nation (KFN). “It was a tiny little fire, and then it just got crazy out of control.” Kasper…
Changes to municipal services may be coming for residents of Fort Resolution as the GNWT prepares to place the hamlet under administration. Earlier this week, the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs (MACA) announced it intends to place the hamlet under administration, citing “financial and operational difficulties.” In doing, so,…
Last updated Friday, May 12 at 12:05 a.m. The search continues for Frank Gruben in Fort Smith, and a community-led search party is out for the second time this morning. About 35 residents turned up yesterday for a search party, organized by resident Larissa Emmons. As Emmons described yesterday morning,…
“After 24 years of working in education, I decided to go back to school.” Josephine Sangris Bishop, 67, is from Behchokǫ̀. After spending decades teaching youth Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì she is finally going to graduate high school – as a proud Chief Jimmy Bruneau (CJBS) student. Being retired, “I took six…
Fort Smith RCMP are asking for the public’s help in locating a missing person. Frank Gruben, 30, was last seen on May 5. He is described as being a six-foot-one, 176-pound Inuit man with black hair and brown eyes. Earlier this week on social media, friends and family issued pleas…
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 Affairs (MACA). The department made the announcement early on Monday afternoon via a press release. Under the territory’s Hamlets Act, in placing the community under administration,…
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 East Three Secondary school in Inuvik decided to turn their love of fitness into a science experiment. Now, their study on the social acceptance of…