You might be from the great white north if you’ve noticed his cartoons in the local paper.
His side-job as a political cartoonist started six years ago on a six-inch space in the Yellowknifer. Now after a year long process of nearly 600 hours of work, John Henderson is celebrating the release of his first book all about the north.
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A Yellowknife man has captured gold at the Canadian Brazillian Jiu Jitsu Federation (CBJJF) Alberta provincial championship
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It was complete school sweep for NJ Macpherson Elementary school at the Grade 4 and 5 Super Soccer tournament.
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At age 11, Spencer Miller is already involving himself in the big leagues. The Yellowknife goaltender will be representing NWT hockey at an elite camp run by the Ottawa Senators this summer.
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Yellowknife’s music scene came together Friday night at The Cellar Bar and Grill to wish long-time owner Dale Bardeau one last farewell.
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Matthew Tremblett has frightful disease: brain cancer. But unlike many similarly afflicted, he doesn’t take it lying down. He’ll be walking and so should you.
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It was a bittersweet atmosphere inside one of Yellowknife’s beloved coffee shops Saturday as the Fat Fox closed the doors on their 50 Street location last Saturday.
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We all have things that we find annoying. When you’re in a rush at the grocery store and the person in front of you has a price check. When someone uses the last of the toilet paper and doesn’t replace the roll. When someone engages in an obnoxiously loud phone conversation on public transit.
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The chickens, as they say, have come home to roost concerning this country’s voting habits.
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A passion for protecting the environment is putting a Canadian soldier from Yellowknife on the front lines in the fight against poaching.
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Local RCMP are training up to address policing priorities, specifically working to improve response to domestic violence, safe planning and sexual assault reporting, said Insp. Alexandre Laporte.
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Kevin Mantla – charged in connection with a bloody 2015 attack at a Yellowknife apartment – will learn his fate Thursday.
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The Coral Harbour U19 girls team romped its way to the territorial A Division banner at the Super Soccer tournament in Yellowknife May 4 to 6.
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Long-time Yellowknifer Dan Wong is using his love of the NWT’s rivers and lakes to give paddlers new and old the tools to explore the territory’s plentiful lakes and rivers.
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Statistics tell us that crime rates are disproportionately high in the Northwest Territories.
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The Northwest Territories’ economy grew last year, thanks in large part to the completion of one full year of production at the Gahcho Kue diamond mine.
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The boil water advisory issued to Hay River, Enterprise, Kakisa and K’alt’odeeche First Nation last Friday by the Chief Public Health Officer has been lifted.
The May 19 release indicated there was a high level of turbidity (muddy water) found in the Town of Hay River’s water supply. The advisory lasted three days before being lifted, this morning.
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After finishing a year at Nunavut Sivuniksavut and two years in office administration, Neoma Cox wanted something more. You could say she found it.
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HALLOKKAFFI IKALUKTUTIAMIT. INUIN NAMAINAKTUT. TINGMIALIKKHIUKTUT INUIN. UPINGALIKTUK NUNAKPUT. KAUMAINNAKTUK HIKINIKLU HIKINNAAKGINAKTUK UBLUK TAMAAT. KATIMAYUNLU INUGIAHIYUK IKALUKTUTIAMI. KOANA PULAAKTUT NUNAPTINGNUN. INUIN NAMAINAKTUT. NAMAKLUHI.
Welcome to sunny Cambridge Bay.
Nineteen teenagers from around the territory got to be MLA for a day.
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Big news coming out of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) on May 14.
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Last week, 13 people committed to start training to revive Fort Liard’s firefighting services.
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Anthrax hasn’t been a problem for bison in Wood Buffalo National Park this year, according to the park’s conservation manager.
Rhona Kindopp says it’s important to note the risk to humans of naturally-occurring anthrax throughout soils in western and Northern Canada is “extremely low.”
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Avalon Advanced Materials announced last week it was reconsidering the viability of the Nechalacho rare earths project that it had shelved in 2014.
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The men’s division final of the Arctic Shoot-Out basketball tournament proved that Yellowknife doesn’t always win everything.
Read MoreInuvik’s third squash tournament of the year was a success, according to organizer Britney Selina.
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Although a new draft policy for operator business licences in both the Nahanni and Naats’ihch’oh national park reserves is under development and will be ready for public review this summer, it comes too late for the benefit of one operator who is looking to open up shop in Nahanni.
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It has been so exciting here in Reliance the last few days I am having a very hard time forcing myself to sit quietly and write for a bit.
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by Lacey Wrigley
Sister Celeste Goulet travelled to Tulita in 1979 planning to stay for one year as an educator, but she never left.
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Inuvik’s 4th annual Science Rendezvous drew 30 exhibitors from the community and approximately 300 visitors interested in learning about STEM topics – and art.
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During a season dominated by weathered and ravaged roads, the City of Iqaluit announced Federal Road is receiving a makeover from the RCMP building to the airport.
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To be the man, you gotta beat the man. So said professional wrestler Ric Flair.
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Dene filmmaker Raymond Yakeleya wants to include Inuit voices in his documentary about Edmonton’s federally-run Charles Camsell Indian Hospital.
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First Air will build a new cargo hangar in the capital thanks to a $12.7 million contribution from the National Trade Corridors Fund. Kugluktuk, Naujaat, Kimmirut, Whale Cove and Chesterfield Inlet are also getting new airport terminals with $22.5 million from the fund.
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When Derrald Taylor and his younger brother Ronald carved together – summoning soapstone bears, bison, birds and other shared visions of their childhood in Tuktoyaktuk – the two rarely spoke.
“We forget everything. We just forget everything and we just concentrate. It’s like we were at peace,” Taylor recalled wistfully.
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Eight communities in NWT and one in the Yukon next spring will get faster browsing speeds and see their high internet fees drop 60 per cent next April.
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North America’s Northernmost mosque will be holding a community feast during the month of Ramadan, which began this week, to celebrate the holy month.
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Listed below are the graduates of other Nunavut Arctic College programs in Kivalliq communities outside of Rankin
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Forgive us for venturing beyond Hay River’s boundaries for this editorial comment, but we can’t really help it.
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Though the municipal election is still five months away, three city councillors have already entered the race.
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Inuvik youth will have the chance to take part in an extra-terrestrial project in September.
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A Grade 9 class at Diamond Jenness Secondary School has earned an honourable mention in a country-wide contest by Parks Canada.
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Enterprise will host a community-wide yard sale at various locations on June 2 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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