The Dettah ice road closed for the season due to rapidly deteriorating conditions as of 4 p.m. Wednesday afternoon.
The GNWT had restricted the road to high-clearance vehicles like SUVs and trucks for 48 hours, only to close it for the season two hours later. The Dettah ice road closed within three days of the historical average of April 21.
— Avery Zingel
Seats available for Canyon performance
The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 164 has seats available for country star George Canyon's performance on May 4 and 5.
Tickets are $100 for legion members and $125 for non-legion members. They can be purchased at the legion on a first-come-first-served basis.
To date the legion has sold almost all of the 120 tickets for Saturday night's show. There are, however, about 60 tickets left for the Friday show. The performance will be at the legion's new location on Franklin Avenue below Coyote's bar and grill.
The Yellowknife legion has been around since the 1940s. Since its inception it has moved from Old Town to downtown. The current legion building has been around since the 1970s, said president Don Asher.
This is Canyon's first trip to Yellowknife.
– Michael Hugall
Air Georgian hopes to land pilots
An international airline is turning to Yellowknife to help solve their personal pilot shortage.
Air Georgian vice-president of flight operations Troy Stephens and vice-president of corporate development John Tory said airlines are anticipating pilot shortages in the hundreds of thousands.
"I came up here about eight or nine years ago when I came up here and the industry was going through a time where there was lots of hiring going on ... I left here with six captains" said Stephens.
"The difference is you have a lot of pilots who are working in the Middle East so you have to be a little creative with how make your company known."
Air Georgian held a meet and greet at Sam's Monkey Tree Pub on Monday in an effort to promote their airline to young pilots.
– Michael Hugall
WSCC's proposed fines burden workers: critics
Some Yellowknifers are concerned that proposed fines for workplace safety violations would disproportionately burden workers.
"If you're going to turn around and give an employee a ticket because he's not wearing a hard hat or he's not wearing a fall-protection harness, there has to be onus on the employer as well, because the employer is responsible for that individual," said one man who spoke Monday at a public consultation on the proposed ticketing system.
"The employer's got to get active, get involved in the damn thing, be a part of the process ... we've got to build that culture."
About a dozen people came out to the Workers' Safety and Compensation Commission offices to share their thoughts on the proposal that would allow inspectors to issue fines to workers and employers who don't comply with occupational health and safety regulations.
Look for more on this issue in the next Yellowknifer.
– Sidney Cohen