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Carolyn Bennett: #MMIW inquiry will acknowledge ‘unique’ North

Northern families of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls advised federal minister Carolyn Bennett of their "unique situation" as she visited Yellowknife on Friday. Bennett,...

One year after WWOS, Yellowknife hosts #MMIW pre-inquiry talks

Indigenous and Northern Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett is in Yellowknife today to host preliminary engagements ahead of the launch of a national inquiry into...

All of Yellowknife’s outdoor rinks should be open Friday

All five of Yellowknife’s outdoor skating rinks should be open to the public in time for the weekend. City staff maintain five rinks throughout the city...

In pictures: 1970s NWT through the eyes of James Jerome

James Jerome, one of the top NWT photographers of the past century, died tragically in 1979 at the age of 30. When his house in...

The Revenant: ‘A giant hipster convention in the woods’

Melaw Nakehk'o is building up to the NWT premiere of her work in The Revenant on Friday, January 8. The Fort Simpson artist-turned-actress spent a...

Yellowknife school reopens after gassy Wednesday

Yellowknife's École Allain St-Cyr will reopen on Thursday after sending students home because of a foul smell on Wednesday. Displeasing classroom smells are more commonly associated...

Yellowknife City Gold Project continues to produce: TerraX

TerraX Minerals Inc. has released what it’s calling encouraging results from its summer exploration program as part of the Yellowknife City Gold Project. In addition...

NWT looks to hold Trudeau to account on northern letter

Justin Trudeau's campaign pledges are on the agenda as NWT Premier Bob McLeod sits down with federal minister Carolyn Bennett later this week. Bennett, the...

City offers YK businesses support to attend BID forum

The City of Yellowknife wants to send a handful of local business owners to a conference on business improvement districts (BIDs) in Vancouver this...

Tickets sell out for The Revenant’s Yellowknife premiere

Tickets for the NWT premiere of The Revenant, which marks Fort Simpson actress Melaw Nakehk'o's Hollywood debut, have sold out. The Revenant, starring Leonardo DiCaprio,...

Dead North Film Festival opens up to wider Arctic for 2016

Yellowknife's Dead North Film Festival hopes to attract submissions from across the Arctic as this year's deadline for submissions approaches. For the first time, Dead North...

IserveU says online councillor-control system ‘close to launch’

Online direct democracy group IserveU plans to launch its full website in the next few weeks. "That's the plan," IserveU's Dane Mason told Moose FM...

Would you change how Yellowknife deals with snow?

Should snow removal be done differently in Yellowknife? Shauna Morgan posed that question during a meeting of councillors on Monday. When the first major snowfall of...

Folk on the Rocks on the rocks as executive director leaves

Yellowknife's Folk on the Rocks music festival needs a new executive director with six months remaining until the 2016 edition takes place. David Whitelock, who assumed...

In pictures: Yellowknife looks beautiful as 2016 begins

The Northern Lights helped Yellowknifers and tourists to welcome in the new year as 2016 began. Dozens of locals and visitors took to Instagram to...

Dettah ice road now open to vehicles up to 4,000 kg

The Yellowknife to Dettah ice road officially opened for business on Saturday, January 2. Following a mild winter, the ice road has taken longer than usual...

First NWT-brewed beer in 18 years will be served up today

The first commercially brewed beer in the Northwest Territories since 1997 hits the lips of Yellowknife residents on New Year's Eve. This lunch hour, the...

Three vehicles stranded in NWT Christmas ice madness

Where they're going, they probably needed roads. No fewer than three vehicles had to be hauled off the ice during a chaotic Christmas for Yellowknife police,...

Yellowknife to host #MMIW inquiry preliminary meeting

Yellowknife will host a key session in the run-up to the launch of a national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. On...

First incident does nothing to deter Kugaaruk booze smuggler

Either somebody's paying a lot for alcohol in Kugaaruk, or somebody isn't learning their lesson. For the second time in just over a week, Yellowknife...

‘Almost comical’ – Yellowknifers throwing away an unlikely item

Yellowknife's dump is dealing with increasing quantities of an unlikely item: reusable grocery bags. The whole point of the reusable bags is, traditionally, to reuse...

My Yellowknife Now’s NWT quotes of the year – 2015

Here's a collection of memorable quotes from 2015's top stories in the Northwest Territories.  Want more of a challenge? Try the My Yellowknife Now news...

My Yellowknife Now’s News Quiz of the Year

Think you know your NWT news in 2015? Take our 30-question quiz drawn from a year of MyYellowknifeNow.com reports and see how you stack up.

Inside Buffalo Airways’ suspension: what’s happening?

Buffalo Airways' suspension is into its fourth week, with Transport Canada demanding more work on safety procedures before the airline can fly its own...
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