23-year old Hay River track star faces child pornography charge

Police in Hay River say that an Indigenous man is missing from the community and are asking the public for assistance to locate him.

The GNWT is reducing office hours including at the department of Education, Culture and Employment in the North Slave Regional and Community Service Centres in Yellowknife and Behchokǫ̀. While officials with the department say the reduced hours are currently temporary, they added it may become permanent.

The GNWT is considering whether to submit an official bid for the 2035 Winter Olympic Games, currently estimated to require an investment of $30 million.

“Originally wasn't called Walk to Tuk, that name came about organically. People just started to call it Walk to Tuk and the name stuck,” says Tim Van Dam, a main organizer of the event. The initiative brings together individuals, schools, workplaces, families, and community groups across the territory to stay active by conceptually walking the length of the Big River, a distance of 1658 km from Zhatıé Kų́ę́ / Fort Providence to Tuktuuyaqtuuq / Tuktoyaktuk.

What is giving Tuesday? For organizations like the NWT’s SPCA, it is a day that celebrates and inspires giving that can mean giving food, funding or hours of care work to a calling. Nicole Spencer, executive director of the NWT SPCA, says because the SPCA receives very little funding from the territory, they rely on folks at the organization who work hard around the clock.