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When Deborah Reid joined Chief Sunrise Education Centre five years ago, the school hadn’t graduated high school students in several years.

Fundraisers are hoping to establish a new arts centre to greet those coming to Tuktoyaktuk.

The Indigo Love of Reading Foundation is committing $20,000 to Iglulik’s Siviniit School.

Low staffing levels in a number of NWT communities may lead to service reductions or closures, according to NWT health and social services authorities.

On June 20, the Government of the Northwest Territories released its fifth Quarterly Report on the Aurora College Transformation, which provides more details surrounding its choice of Tin Can Hill over other locations for a new polytechnic university in the community.

Fifteen community-based seniors projects in the NWT, including four in Yellowknife, will share $367,000 in federal funding, MP Michael McLeod announced Wednesday.

Calgary Police today are asking people to come forward with details regarding Tara Niptanatiak’s death. The 35-year-0ld Cambridge Bay mother of four was found inside a waste container in the city’s Ramsay neighbourhood on February 25, 2022. An autopsy found her death was not suspicious, but “however, the circumstances surrounding how she ended up in the container remain under investigation”, the Calgary Police added in a social media post.

June 21st is National Indigenous Day and throughout the territory there were celebrations in recognition of Inuit, First Nations and Metis cultures.

Dene and Métis leaders from across the Dehcho are calling on the Roman Catholic Church to throw out the Doctrine of Discovery and any related 14th century Papal orders that helped drive colonialism and harm to their ancestors and traditional ways of life.

There were no bigger fish to fry in Yellowknife on National Indigenous Peoples’ Day than the ones being served at Somba K’e Park.