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The Inuvik-based Beaufort Basketball League wrapped up its season May 12-13. Having played 20 games already, the five teams were well acquainted with one another as they battled over the two day tournament. The next season is expected to begin in the fall and organizer Clinton Gordon welcomes one and all to come out and shoot some hoops.

The City of Yellowknife has lifted the mandatory fire ban that was imposed last week due to dry and windy conditions.

An Airbus A330-300 spent 3 hours in Iqaluit due to a medical emergency on board

Full-day kindergarten could soon be offered at schools across Nunavut

Editor’s note: As a matter of full disclosure, the previous staff member from Cornerstone Pentecostal Church’s daycare is a relative of the story’s author.

Our hearts go out to the people of Hay River and K’atlo’deeche First Nation, who, as of this writing still on evacuation order and likely wondering what, if anything, awaits them back at home.

The legislative assembly reconvened on Thursday, but Premier Caroline Cochrane wasn’t among the MLAs who returned to the house.

Perhaps it is the pride of returning to his ancestral Metis roots, or possibly a decades-long labour of love, but for Garth Wallbridge of Yellowknife, his passion for restoring and rebuilding canoes is one that gives him immense enjoyment - only surpassed when he is actually paddling one on a lake or river.

By the time Mabel Etegik was born in 1943, the Inuinnait people’s traditional ihualik bow and arrow had all but vanished. She never saw one intact, and certainly never saw one being used.

IHA has ended the lockout that began on March 19, two days after 13 employees went on strike