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Yellowknife's Giant Mine underground sealed off
The multi-billion dollar cleanup of Yellowknife's Giant Mine reached a milestone in late 2024 — all access to the underground caverns, tunnels and other workings have been sealed off, possibly for good.
Trailer settlement near Yellowknife focus of land rights battle
A small cluster of trailers along the Ingraham Trail near Yellowknife is the focus of a battle over Indigenous land rights.
Drug busts reveal how dealers do business in a small N.W.T. community
Search warrant documents offer some insight into the brazen ways police say drug dealers are plying their trade in one small N.W.T. community.
Gwich'in green energy company in Inuvik focus of lawsuit filed in N.W.T. Supreme Court
Leaders of the Nihtat Gwich'in Council of Inuvik are alleging a former chair and a key official made secret business deals that benefited them personally at the expense of the Nihtat Gwich'in.
Fort Smith woman pleads guilty to defrauding employer
Dorreen Elizabeth Vogt has pleaded guilty to defrauding a local company out of more than $5,000.
Man charged in fatal attack in Yellowknife pleads guilty to manslaughter
Darren Nulliayuk was charged in July 2023, shortly after police found an unresponsive man in the parking lot of the Capital Suites on Franklin Ave. in Yellowknife.
N.W.T. drunk driver who caused fatal accident sentenced to 3.5 years
Bradley Storm Beaulieu was sentenced in a Peace River courtroom Monday after pleading guilty to impaired driving causing death and impaired driving causing bodily harm.
Gahcho Kue contractor pleads guilty in workplace death
A contractor at the Gahcho Kue diamond mine has been ordered to pay $200,000 in connection with an accident that killed one of its workers.
2 Fort Providence, N.W.T., men accused of beating and robbing elder
RCMP say two men are facing charges after an elder in Fort Providence, N.W.T., sustained serious injuries and was medevaced to Stanton Territorial Hospital in Yellowknife. Police say the attack happened in the early morning hours of Saturday.
Judge says Parks Canada unfairly rejected licence application of N.W.T. fishing lodge
A federal judge has set aside a Parks Canada decision to deny a longtime fishing lodge on Great Slave Lake a licence to continue operating within Thaidene Nëné National Park.