UPDATE: YK teen located by RCMP

The Northwest Territories’ Northern Distance Learning Program has undergone an evaluation to help guide improvements to the program, improving student access to virtual high school programming.

The Kidney Foundation of Canada will be holding the annual Yellowknife Kidney walk this Sunday, May 24. 

As the territory continues through the current period of economic transition, the GNWT is asking residents to share their views on the territories' budgeting decisions.

With bears in the territory awakening from hibernation, the department of the Environment warn bears are “active” in the NWT and urge folks to take steps to keep a distance and keep safe. The N.W.T. is known as “bear country’ and home to black, grizzly and polar bears. While bears generally avoid contact with people, encounters happen.

Fort Providence RCMP says they have arrested and charged a suspect with drug charges following the execution of a search warrant.