A missing Yellowknife teen has been found “safe and sound,” according to RCMP. Yellowknife RCMP confirmed on Friday afternoon 16-year-old Dayton Lafferty had been found roughly one day after being reported missing. Lafferty was last seen on the afternoon of Tuesday, Oct. 25. He was reported missing on Oct. 27….
An unidentified man is facing charges in connection with what RCMP are calling a “significant” liquor seizure near Fort McPherson. Police say they made the seizure last Friday during a routine traffic stop on the Dempster Highway, within the 25-kilometre radius of the Fort McPherson Liquor Restriction. RCMP say they…
Three swords, 16 long-barrel firearms and more than 1,300 rounds of ammo were among the weapons seized by Norman Wells RCMP this week. On Monday, Oct. 17, a raid was conducted on a home in Norman Wells with the help of a nearby detachment. In addition to the swords, long-barrel…
A 43-year-old man from Saamba K’e is facing several charges for allegedly threatening a woman with a firearm at a residence. Fort Simpson RCMP say they got the call Wednesday evening and flew out to the area with a police service dog. They say the man had fled the residence and…
The rescue of a Fort McPherson man prods the warning from RCMP that it’s unsafe to travel on northern waterways at this time of year following Police say the 31-year-old was reported missing on Saturday after travelling to his camp on the Husky Channel by boat. They say the man failed…
The RCMP are investigating a motor vehicle accident near Inuvik that left one person dead over the weekend. The accident happened on Saturday evening, at about 8:20 p.m. along the Inuvik/Tuktoyaktuk highway. A man who was seriously injured in the crash was airlifted to a hospital in Alberta, where he…
Updated 10:15 a.m. Oct. 11. Police say a community-led search party has found the body of a Fort Resolution man who fell into the Slave River last week. The RCMP announced on Tuesday the body of 42-year-old George Giroux was found by a community search party on Oct. 8….
Dozens took to the streets of Ndilo and Yellowknife on Tuesday to mark the National Day of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls on Tuesday. The march began at the Ndilo gym and continued all the way to Yellowknife’s Northern United Place, where there was a sharing…
A missing Yellowknife woman was found “safe and sound” on Sunday evening, hours after police issued a call for public help. Twenty nine year-old Sarah Gullberg was first declared missing on Sunday evening after her family had not seen her for several days. She was confirmed found by the RCMP…
The lone suspect in a series of stabbings in Fort Good Hope has turned himself in to authorities. In a press conference on Thursday evening, RCMP Supt. Jeffrey Christie said McNeely had turned himself in to authorities earlier that evening. A motive for the crime has still not been established,…