Despite being a five-time Juno award-winning artist, Leela Gilday wasn’t always comfortable expressing herself. A feeling she’s known ever since she was a young girl, growing up in Yellowknife. “I felt like my voice wasn’t as important as other youth and so it’s taken a lifetime of trying to realize…
Last updated Tuesday, March 14 at 5:18 p.m. A man who was sent to receive medical treatment in Yellowknife after an altercation with multiple police officers along the Mackenzie Valley Winter Road is still in hospital, according to police. On Monday morning, Fort Good Hope RCMP responded to a report…
A young male is in hospital following a ‘serious assault’ in Hay River. Police say they received a call of a disturbance around 4:15 a.m. on March 12. While en route to the location, they found a young man who had been assaulted. EMS transported the young man to the…
He’s small, he’s got attitude, and he may or may not still bootleg liquor. Meet Emery Burningrass. He’s become a YouTube and social media star over the past five years, particularly among Indigenous communities, from which he draws his humour. Now, Emery and his puppeteer, Donald MacDonald, are coming to…
Northwest Territories RCMP are making a public appeal for witnesses to come forward in connection with an unsolved murder from August of last year. Thirty-six-year-old Faysal Farah was found shot to death at a Yellowknife apartment shortly after 2 a.m. on Aug. 20. Police say multiple witnesses were at the…
Police seized 240 grams of cocaine and a 3D-printed firearm on Feb. 26. from an unwanted guest. Police responded to a call from a residence on Gitzel Street where they arrested a 39-year-old male from Alberta. He was found with 240 grams of cocaine, some cash and a loaded 9…
A bill that would increase the price of carbon in the territory should not be made into law. That was the conclusion of the Legislative Assembly’s Standing Committee on Government Operations this week. On Wednesday, members of the committee presented their report on Bill 60: An Act to Amend the…
Last updated Friday, March 3 at 4:35 p.m. The Government of the Northwest Territories was not informed about two incidents of industrial wastewater leakage in northern Alberta within the last year that had the potential to impact shared waters. Minister of Environment and Natural Resources Shane Thompson confirmed in the…
For Brittany Kendo, training for badminton in her home community of Tsiigehtchic was a challenge. With a population of less than 200, there is only one small gym, and one other person who would play with her. If that wasn’t possible, she says, “I would sometimes just go there and…
CKLB Radio · More than one way to skin a squirrel: Program teaches inmates the art of trapping For the first time in over 20 years, Denver Clement had the opportunity to reconnect to his roots through a pilot trapper program at the North Slave Correctional Complex in Yellowknife. “I…