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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.
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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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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In today’s Tales from the Dump column, longtime Yellowknifer Walt Humphries writes there were far fewer homeless people in the community back when it was a sleepy frontier town in the 1970s.
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To state the obvious, Hay River Town Council is in for some big changes.
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Inuvik was crawling with tourists this season.
The parking lot at the Western Arctic Regional Visitors Centre was often packed with RVs, truck campers and the odd beater that huffed its way up the Dempster Highway.
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Can you believe the weather we’re having?
It snowed on August 31 and all through Labour Day weekend and it was horrifying.
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We hope you enjoyed your Labour Day long weekend.
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Fall time in the city. Yellow leaves, municipal election campaign signs on neighbourhood lawns, and an ugly problem at city hall that remains unresolved since coming to light in January.
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Considering the High Arctic is probably the most expensive place in the world to drill for oil, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s ban on new oil and gas development in the Beaufort was classic posturing.
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Friends, I just wanted to follow up on my last column here in News/North…
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If you’re going to criticize Donald Trump – and there are plenty of ways to do so because he makes it way, way too easy – make sure the image you’re using to accompany said criticism matches your argument.
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The Crown has called all of its evidence in a trial for an accused fentanyl trafficker arrested during a high-risk 2015 drug raid in Yellowknife.
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Learning to cast a line in the water isn’t just about filling stringers full of fish, although for some, including me, that’s no insignificant objective.
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So school starts back up on Tuesday and I can’t say I feel bad for the kids who are dreading the first day of class.
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I think this year should go down in the historic annals of Yellowknife legend and lore as “El Very Berry Bonanza.”
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With long flights south and even longer winters, it’s imperative that Yellowknife has top notch sports and recreational facilities.
Read More It was a funny thing – funny in the sense of being unusual or odd. But definitely not funny in the sense of ha-ha funny.
Read More With NHL teams slated to open their training camps during the next two weeks, love them or hate them, a large number of Kivalliq hockey fans have their eyes fixed on the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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by Jack Bourassa
The upcoming long weekend gives me an empowered feeling that leaves me inspired.
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I just came back from the Dene National Assembly, which was my brother Billy Erasmus’ last meeting as the Dene National Chief after thirty years. Can you imagine? Thirty years as the head of the Dene Nation, except for one term when he was the NWT representative to the Assembly of First Nations.
Read MoreFrom: the Ferguson, LePrieur and McLean families, Thebacha/Fort Smith
Dear editor,
On Aug. 9, 2018 we attended the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Fort Smith landslide. Although 50 years had passed since that awful day that took the life of our mother and grandmother Kay Ferguson, we were apprehensive about what this day would bring.
Read More It takes a special sort of dingus to pull this trick.
Read More The sudden firing of longtime councillor Vince Sharpe over $700 in unpaid dumping fees on Aug. 8 shines a light on the shadiness that can sometimes define small-town politics.
Read More It took nearly 15 years of fundraising and planning before Children First Society (CFS) could open its doors.
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40 years ago
RCMP responding to a home in Willow Flats for an unrelated incident came across about 50 cannabis plants.
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Why does Old Airport Road take you to the new airport?
Why does Yellowknife’s main street have two names (Franklin Avenue/50 Avenue)?
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A couple weeks ago, I was driving in my truck listening to the radio when a rather gleeful announcer came on with what almost sounded a little like a public service message. I am going to paraphrase it a bit.
Read More There is nothing offensive about a major corporation holding a private party to celebrate a major milestone.
Read More We said it before – and will probably have to say it again sometime in the future – but we will never understand why more people don’t show up to important public meetings.
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