Four firefighting specialists from the Northwest Territories are to leave Thursday and Friday for Australia to help battle the devastating wildfires Down Under. The Government of the NWT is sending the four wildfire personnel as part of a Canadian contingent traveling to Australia to help with efforts to contain wildfires…
It has now been more than two months since a man was shot in Fort Simpson by a Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) Department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) wildlife officer. Still, neither the victim nor the public have any idea exactly why it happened. Dennis Nelner, 54,…
A Fort Simpson man who was shot last month by a wildlife officer with the territorial government’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) says he and his community are still owed some answers. Dennis Nelner, 54, was hit in the thigh with a slug fired from a shotgun while…
RCMP are investigating after a man was shot by Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) officer in the Dehcho community of Fort Simpson. Mounties stated in a news release Saturday that it happened on Friday when the ENR officer shot at a bear that was within the town’s boundary and was…
(CORRECTION) The original version of this story stated that the numbers of bears destroyed by ENR officers was for the years of 2018 and 2019. In fact, the numbers are for the months of August only in those years. It was CKLB’s honest mistake, not ENR’s) Game officers with the…
Game officers with the territorial government’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) have shot and killed 42 bears across the Northwest Territories this year. That compares to only 28 in all of 2018. Those numbers have come from an ENR spokesperson. This year’s numbers include one grizzly and one…
The territorial government’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) is reporting that at least ten problem bears have been put down by their officers and private citizens in several communities in the Northwest Territories over the past week. ENR spokesperson Meagan Wohlberg told CKLB Monday afternoon that three grizzly…
In the evening of Sunday, July 14, two American tourists in the Hanbury Lake area, 480 kilometres east of Yellowknife, found a grizzly bear shredding their foldable canoe. They sent a distress call to the International Emergency Response Coordination Centre, a global search and rescue dispatch centre, which relayed the…
An out-of-control wildfire, burning about 40 kilometres northwest of Yellowknife, is still too dangerous to put firefighting crews on the ground to battle it. That word from personnel from the Department on Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) in a conference call with the media on Monday. Smoke from that fire,…
The Tlicho community of Behchoko had a bit of a scare last week as at least one wildfire crept to about ten kilometres from the community. That information came Tuesday from Richard Olsen, the Fort Smith-based manager of fire operations for the NWT’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR)….