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One woman is dead after a fire broke out in Behchoko over the weekend, say RCMP.
The female victim, who has not yet been identified, was found inside a shed early Saturday morning after the Behchoko Fire Department responded to a blaze on a residential property around 1:20 a.m.
When RCMP officers arrived on scene to assist firefighters, the structure was “fully engulfed in flames,” stated a news release from Mounties.
Three candidates running in the Yellowknife municipal election awoke Monday to some nasty vandalism of their campaign signs that included racist and anti-semitic slurs.
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The amount the Government of Nunavut is doling out for school insurance has reached the highest annual total yet: more than $1.8 million.
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Four Nunavut teenagers have a better idea of what it’s like to be a police officer after spending five days training at the RCMP Depot in Regina.
Read MoreKangiqliniq/Rankin Inlet
One of the most popular volleyball tournaments in the territory now has its dates confirmed.
Read MoreMittimatalik/Pond Inlet
The Hamlet of Pond Inlet is consulting on how to manage the financial returns from this year’s cruise ship season, said senior administrative officer Daryl Dibblee.
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by Harry Maksagak
Interest groups and organizations are formed because someone or a group expressed concern and took the steps to assist in improvements. This covers a wide spectrum and I hope I can shed some light around this idea.
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Have trucks, will travel.
That’s what K&D Contracting of Fort McPherson did as they made the trip to Aklavik for one of the last slopitch tournaments of the season and it was a success.
Read MoreThe Mackenzie River Metis Collective will be holding its community gathering this coming weekend after efforts have been put forward in recent weeks to create a third geographic group representing NWT Metis people in the river region.
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Psst, did you hear? Yellowknife’s new combined sobering center and day shelter opened last week. Yay, that is really good news. I’m excited and I’m sure the people facing homelessness and addictions in our community are excited too.
Read MoreLiidlii Kue/Fort Simpson
A program in Fort Simpson aimed at keeping youth busy and entertained on the weekends is getting ready to start up again Oct. 12.
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The time for filing municipal nomination papers has passed and a humble word must be said for the courage all candidates showed in throwing their names into the proverbial ring.
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U.S. Consul General Allison Areias Vogel attended the Nunavut Trade Show this month, and met with Nunavummiut to discuss shared interests in education, renewable energy and U.S. cold climate technology.
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Iqaluit will be home to the first ever First Air Arctic Comedy Festival, with all its proceeds in support of the Kamatsiaqtut Help Line.
Read MoreTestimony at the recent Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls inquiry hearings in Iqaluit showed there is a still a lot of work needed to heal the wounds of colonial violence, if it’s even possible in light of the fact such violence persists.
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The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) saw its newest Arctic patrol ship touch saltwater for the first time this month and could be deployed to the Arctic as early as 2020, say navy officials.
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One of these days, a news correspondent is going to lose their life covering a hurricane. This was never going to happen this time around.
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Suzhou, China
The new curling season is underway and Kevin Koe couldn’t have started things any better.
Read MoreThe 2019 Canada Winter Games in Red Deer, Alta., will be big enough for the NWT but it will be even bigger for one team.
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Vince Sharpe won the grand prize of $4,000 in the Road’s End Golf Course’s unique, sold-out annual fundraiser September 15.
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The 14th annual Ko K’e Spoken Word and Music Festival is set to wrap up its tour of the Northwest Territories in Inuvik September 27.
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Barring a last-minute agreement on a new contract, unionized Canada Post employees are set to strike on Wednesday and Nunavummiut are preparing for repercussions.
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More than 40 students and teachers from across the Kivalliq hit the water in the name of science during the annual Kivalliq Science Educator’s Community (KSEC) Science Camp in Chesterfield Inlet from Sept. 6 to 10.
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A local hunter shot and killed a two-year-old male grizzly bear on Sept. 18. The predator wandered into the community that day, as it had the previous two days.
Read More Half a dozen unprepared boaters spent a chilly few hours on Prosperous Lake before being rescued early Wednesday morning.
Yellowknife RCMP responded to a report of stranded boaters near Tartan Rapids just after 10:30 p.m. Tuesday.
With help from the Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary volunteers, RCMP officers located and rescued six boaters whose vessel had stalled.
Conditions at the time were “dark and cold with temperatures below freezing,” according to a news release from RCMP.
The boaters weren’t dressed for the weather and didn’t have any survival gear onboard.
“This incident serves as a reminder for the public to be prepared for an emergency on the water or land with fall/winter conditions approaching. Have a plan, practice water safety and encourage others to do the same,” stated an RCMP spokesperson in the release.
RCMP offer the following safety tip:
An exhaustive search for a 20-year-old missing Norman Wells man has been suspended by police.
Darren Whiteman was last seen around 11 p.m. at a cabin on Lennie Lake on Sept. 12.
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With hopes of getting new artificial turf for the Kugluktuk arena and funds to afford a climbing wall and soccer nets, recreation coordinator Matt Craddock was finalizing an entry into the annual Kraft Heinz Project Play contest last week.
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Musician Pat Braden officially launches the first installment of the website, Musicians of the Midnight Sun, on Tuesday.
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Word on the street in Rankin Inlet has a group of folks coming together this past weekend in hopes of forming a committee to establish a second music festival in Rankin Inlet.
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