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Cambridge Bay students nab muskox
There's a new program at Cambridge Bay's Kiilinik school and it's focused on hunting. Seven students in the school's inaugural year of the hunter leadership program have benefited from trips on the land to hunt caribou, but most recently, three of the students had a chance to hunt muskox.
Midwives legislation delayed
Legislation regulating the midwifery profession in Nunavut has been delayed, and midwife instructors are worried this will affect training programs already underway.
Court date set for Horne lawsuit
The governments of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories are set to go to trial next February in a lawsuit by 70 former students of a convicted sex offender.
U.S. given deadline on polar bears
Just days after the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada assessed the polar bear as a species of special concern for the third time, the pressure is on the U.S. to decide on the polar bear's status.
Municipalities wait to hear government plan
It was business as usual this past week as municipal and territorial leaders gathered in Rankin Inlet to discuss long term strategic planning and other topics of interest to Nunavut municipalities.
Baker Lake goes solo
Baker Lake's split from the Nunavut Association of Municipalities (NAM), announced last month has been coming for quite some time, said the mayor of Baker Lake.
Raven Rock manager hopes to own station
When Nunavut News/North reaches Glen Craig, manager and on-air personality of CKIQ Raven Rock, Iqaluit's only commercial radio station, he's about five minutes away from hosting a two-hour block of 80s retro music.
High school students celebrate Inuktitut language
Iqaluit high school students had a chance to learn from elders and teachers from around the territory as part of the Qikiqtani Inuit Association's Inuktitut Language Celebration late last month.
Darnley Bay president is driven by thrill of discovery
Darnley Bay Resources Ltd. president Leon La Prairie has seen a lot of mines in his day. The 82-year-old mining engineer has worked from one side of the country to the other, and has spent a lot of time in the North.
Greenhouse blooms into second season
Iqaluit's very own lush oasis has received a financial boost for its expansion plans as the Iqaluit Greenhouse Society heads into its second growing season.
Truth commission chair chosen
A chairperson has been appointed to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and it will begin hearing the experiences of residential school survivors once the two remaining commissioners have been chosen.
A dozen years of teaching culture
It's been 12 years since Audrey Qamanirq first started teaching culture and theatre to a group of youth in Arctic Bay.
Iqaluit Humane Society finds home in city facility
The Iqaluit Humane Society has new digs for its homeless pooches. The group moved into space donated by the City of Iqaluit late last month, adjacent to the pound on Federal Road.
Mechanical failure left Rankin in the dark
Mechanical failure was to blame for the power outage that caused the hamlet of Rankin Inlet to declare a state of emergency this past February.
Common language of the land
Elders, hunters and scientists from Greenland and the United States travelled to Clyde River last month to exchange their knowledge of sea ice with local experts.
Working with bone and stone
The corner studio in Kimmirut carver Donnie Pitseolak's house is full of the fine dust of his craft. The powder of bone and stone left over as his pieces emerge coats even the feathers he has perched on the wall.

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