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Community, Featured, News, Police May 11, 2023

Update: Community search for Frank Gruben enters its second day

Gruben hasn't been seen since May 5. Community members have been searching for him since Thursday morning

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,…

Community, Featured, News May 11, 2023

Elder, language advocate and teacher set to graduate high school

“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…

Featured, News, Police May 10, 2023

Fort Smith RCMP searching for missing man

Frank Gruben was last seen on May 5

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…

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 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,…

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 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…

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 found none. The night was April 10. “I was freezing cold and I was feeling helpless,” he says. Dressed in only a long sleeve shirt,…

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). Premier Caroline Cochrane called it a “truly significant step towards reconciliation.” But not everyone is on board just yet. Late last year, before the legislation…

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 fish for breakfast, lunch and dinner,” she said. “Never got sick of it then and still not sick of it.” O’Connor got to show off…

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 still be available through Yellowknife Public Health until the end of June. Beginning May 1, residents can book appointments for the Covid-19 vaccine at the…

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 RCMP officer. The officer said he was not apprehended in Hay River, despite the Hay River RCMP issuing a warrant for his arrest, although the…