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Yellowknife Airport considers expansion as traffic continues to grow

Yellowknife, NWT - Yellowknife Airport is beginning work on expansion plans as the number of flights to and from the city continues to grow. A Statistics...

Flight from Yellowknife to Fort Simpson lands on Great Slave Lake, passengers airlifted

UPDATED 1425 MST - A pilot and five passengers have been airlifted back to Yellowknife after an Air Tindi flight was forced to land on Great Slave Lake in poor weather. All...

Yellowknife educator picks up award while shaping future of NWT learning

Yellowknife, NWT - One of the territory's top educators will pick up a national teaching award in Toronto today. John Stewart is the director of...

Yellowknife gas prices finally drop – a little

Yellowknife, NWT - Gas prices in the city of Yellowknife have, at last, shown signs of life. For the first time in years, prices appear...

Robert Hawkins: Why I should be MP for the Northwest Territories

Yellowknife, NWT - Robert Hawkins promised the Northwest Territories "new solutions" as he announced his bid to become the territory's next MP. Hawkins, currently the...

CJCD celebrates 35 years of Yellowknife radio

Yellowknife, NWT - On November 13, 1979, the radio station with callsign CJCD sprang to life over the AM frequency in Yellowknife. Thirty-five years later,...

Nobel Peace Prize nominee opens indigenous women’s gathering in Yellowknife

Yellowknife, NWT - Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier has opened the first-ever Indigenous Circumpolar Women's Gathering in Yellowknife. Watt-Cloutier, who rose to prominence highlighting the effects of...

Meet one of the therapy dogs helping Yellowknife’s kids to read

Yellowknife, NWT - Saturday, for Keeper, is reading day. Keeper is about to turn eight years old, and spends his Saturday mornings browsing through Yellowknife public library's wide range...

YK1 schools town hall meeting: what was said, what happens next

Yellowknife, NWT - Parents gathered at Yellowknife's Range Lake North School to hear the potential fate of their children's schools on Thursday evening. Based on the...

Prices at northern gas stations should drop in coming weeks, says expert

Yellowknife, NWT - Gas prices are down significantly across the country of late and experts are saying that trend could continue. “Prices have dropped dramatically...

Learning the ropes: Here’s how Yellowknife students will ‘fly’ in Peter Pan

Yellowknife, NWT - "It was super-surprising. This is coming to Yellowknife? This little 'nowhere' city?" Students at Ecole Sir John Franklin High School could not...

Japanese tourist ‘had plan to disappear’ in Yellowknife, now presumed dead

Yellowknife, NWT - RCMP say a Japanese tourist who went missing in Yellowknife is now presumed dead - and had a plan to disappear...

Yellowknife woman’s shock as Facebook stomach photos go viral

Yellowknife, NWT - Facebook photos being 'stolen' from your profile is not unheard-of. But Inemesit Graham figured her stomach photos were safe. Graham, 28, has a...

GNWT politely points out Yellowknife school boards cannot count

Yellowknife, NWT - The Government of the Northwest Territories says complaints by Yellowknife school boards regarding the cost of junior kindergarten contain "critical factual...

Missing Japanese tourist in Yellowknife: more photos released

Yellowknife, NWT - RCMP have released more photos of a Japanese tourist missing in Yellowknife. Atsumi Yoshikubo, a 45-year-old woman, was reported missing on Monday when she failed...

Yellowknife schools predict $4m junior kindergarten funding loss

Update - October 29: The Yellowknife school boards' press release on which this story was based contained a critical mathematical error regarding the $4 million...

Murdered and missing Aboriginal women: National roundtable coming to Yellowknife

Yellowknife, NWT - A new, national roundtable on murdered and missing Aboriginal women will come to Yellowknife in February 2015. That's according to the Premier...

How my hero brother Kevin Vickers saved me – Yellowknife teacher

Yellowknife, NWT - When Will Vickers was 12, he already knew Kevin Vickers was a hero. Will, the brother of parliamentary Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin, teaches grades...

Ottawa shooting: Dennis Bevington urges cautious Canada terror response

Yellowknife, NWT - Northwest Territories MP Dennis Bevington says the nation must be wary of overreaction in the wake of Wednesday's Ottawa shooting. Bevington was aboard...

Allan Shortt remembers 2011 plane crash as Yellowknifers collect bravery medals

Yellowknife, NWT - Allan Shortt drives past the scene every day. "I live there. It's still fresh in my mind," he says, thinking back to...

Riding with the by-law officers: Meet Yellowknife’s municipal enforcement division

Yellowknife, NWT - "I did 26 years' military police and decided, you know what? Time to retire." Retirement, for Steve Hitchon, is municipal enforcement in...

Municipal enforcement in Yellowknife ‘lacks clear priorities and policies’, review finds

Yellowknife, NWT - An independent review of municipal enforcement in Yellowknife says officers have been given neither clear priorities, nor clear policies to follow. The...

Court places conditions on convicted sex offender in Yellowknife

Yellowknife, NWT - The Territorial Court of the Northwest Territories has placed a set of conditions on convicted sex offender Travis Casaway following his...

Hay River library fears funding cut despite rise in popularity

Yellowknife, NWT - Hay River's library fears for its funding, despite being at its most popular for a decade. The library has asked the Town...
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