Cameron Courtoreille pins down medal no. 6 at Western Canada Summer Games
The 10th and final day of the Western Canada Summer Games in Swift Current, Sask., on Sunday saw Team NT pick up its sixth medal of the event.
Cameron Courtoreille of Yellowknife was the final...
Boys relay team wins track and field bronze at Western Canada Summer Games
Another day, another bronze medal for Team NT at the Western Canada Summer Games in Swift Current, Sask., this time on the track.
The team of Nicolas Bennett of Yellowknife, Bryce Smith of Hay River,...
Medal no. 4 for Team NT at Western Canada Summer Games
Team NT's medal count at the Western Canada Summer Games is officially at four with the latest podium result coming in tennis.
Ofira Duru and Monika Kunderlik, both from Yellowknife, snagged themselves a bronze medal...
Close calls and court success on Thursday at Western Canada Summer Games
Thursday at the Western Canada Summer Games in Swift Current, Sask., featured plenty of almost and a dash of how-about-that.
Track and field got underway on Thursday and it started off with a bang as...
Nick Rivet makes NWT soccer history at Western Canada Summer Games
Among all of the hustle and bustle of the Western Canada Summer Games in Swift Current, Sask., it's easy to forget that there are officials who make sure the contests happen in a fair...
Basketball teams fall short at Western Canada Summer Games
The last chances for a medal in phase of the Western Canada Summer Games have come and gone for Team NT.
Both the boys and girls teams were on court Tuesday morning in the bronze...
Leo Konge becomes golden boy at Western Canada Summer Games
Just when you thought Leo Konge's Western Canada Summer Games adventure couldn't get any better, it did on Sunday.
Day 3 for Team NT at the Games in Swift Current, Sask., was a history-making one...
Leo Konge scores double bronze at Western Canada Summer Games
(Edit: beach volleyball scores updated)
(Further edit: basketball scores updated)
(Further edit: updated to reflect Leo Konge's second bronze medal, quotes from Konge and Jane Mooney and boys basketball score)
Day 2 of the Western Canada Summer...
Western Canada Summer Games get underway
The wait is over for Team NT and Team Nunavut.
The territory's latest sporting venture is underway as the Western Canada Summer Games got underway in Swift Current, Sask., yesterday morning. Yesterday morning because it...
Iqaluit’s Ian McDonald named Nunavut flag bearer for Western Canada Summer Games opening ceremony
Ian McDonald of Iqaluit is going to make history this weekend when he becomes one of the first four Nunavummiut to play in a competitive game of beach volleyball.
Before that happens, McDonald got one...
Naomi Yukon marches them in at Western Canada Summer Games
When Team NT marches into the Western Canada Summer Games opening ceremony this evening in Swift Current, Sask., they will do so under the lead of Naomi Yukon.
Yukon, who plays with the girls basketball...
SPORTS TALK: Join me, won’t you, and help #BringBackTheDub
This will either make me some new friends or some new enemies. It could also have no effect on any of you at all.
In any event, I'm starting the charge on this. With the...
Countdown begins to start of 2019 Western Canada Summer Games for Team NT
In less than 72 hours, the territory's best and brightest young athletes will be donning the colours and hitting the playing field/court/sand/track in the latest adventure for Team NT.
It's the Western Canada Summer Games...
Amirco Barry Pickers finish first in Midnight Sun Softball Tournament
It was the Amirco Barry Pickers who came out on top of Inuvik’s 2019 Midnight Sun Softball Tournament, after defeating the two-time defending champions, the Native Yankees, 6-1 on Aug. 5.
“That’s actually a low...
SPORTS TALK: Fill in the blanks: Don’t throw stones from ____ ____
Putt-putt in church? It's a thing.
The Rochester Cathedral, which is part of the Church of England meaning it's an Anglican parish and the second-oldest in the country behind just Canterbury, has erected a nine-hole...
Three-peat joy for Jerry Wald in NWT Open
Your winner and still the NWT Open men's singles champion: Jerry Wald of Fort Smith.
Wald made the trip to Yellowknife to once again defend the crown he's held since 2017 and he came out...
Inuvik RCMP officer runs to support youth programming
In an effort to provide more funding opportunities for youth-oriented programs across the North, avid runner and Inuvik RCMP officer Stephanie Leduc is looking to raise $5,000 before competing in a half-marathon later in...
Home Building Centre Cardinals tops again in men’s fastpitch
Editor's note: The story has been updated to correct that the Cardinals and Prospectors have won the last five tournaments between them and that Brady Daniels is also a member of the Trappers.
The Fire...
Whitecaps FC Academy camp has second go-round in Yellowknife
They said they would be back and they made good on that promise.
The Vancouver Whitecaps of Major League Soccer made its return appearance in the capital this past weekend with the second Whitecaps FC...
Just Play Summer Sport Camp program wraps up pilot program
The Get Happy Summer Day Camp program, operated by the Recreation and Parks Association of Nunavut (RPAN), is already an established part of its annual programming, now in its fifth year.
Another component of that...
Yellowknife Golf Club hosts inaugural RBC PGA Scramble qualification event
Scramble golf is one of the most popular formats going today at the Yellowknife Golf Club.
But there's a national championship for scramble golf and two teams of four took the first step of hopefully...
Western Canada Summer Games girls volleyball squad warms up at Canada Cup
The Canada Cup junior volleyball tournament had never had a team from North of 60 as part of its line-up.
That is until the Western Canada Summer Games girls squad made an appearance this year...
Western Canada Summer Games boys squad finish first of two training camps ahead of...
Indoor volleyball is one of those sports where the NWT will play every other province and territory at the Western Canada Summer Games in Swift Current, Sask., next month.
So it should come as no...
Inuvik residents pick up water safety skills
Thanks to a couple of lifesavers from the Lifesaving Society’s Alberta and NWT branch, a few residents in town are now equipped with swimming skills that they can use when they find themselves treading...
Yellowknife Wolverines head south for softball
Raine Mingo called her recent trip to Surrey, B.C., the best one she's ever been on.
If you got to do what she did, you wouldn't disagree with her.
Mingo was one of 11 players with...
Q and A with Canadian boxing legend Donny Lalonde
Editor's note: This interview has been edited for clarity and length.
It isn't every day a former world champion boxer strolls into the offices of NNSL but that's what happened last week.
Donny Lalonde, “The Golden...
Yk Tennis Open crowns 2019 champs
If you can't beat them, join them. At least that's how it came down to the men's doubles champions of the Yk Tennis Open earlier this month at the Yellowknife Tennis Club.
More on that...
Keeping Inuvik’s basketball tradition alive
Clinton Gordon was 16-years-old when he was invited to come out and play in the Inuvik Men's Basketball Club in 1997, a group that was formed in the late 1980s at Samuel Hearne Secondary...
Athletics NWT names 24-person roster for Western Canada Summer Games
It will be the single-largest team making the trip to the Western Canada Summer Games and the goal is to simply be the best in the NWT.
A total of 24 athletes from around the...
Future of Team North at National Aboriginal Hockey Championships in doubt
The 2020 National Aboriginal Hockey Championships (NAHC) will happen next May in Regina, of that there is no doubt.
What is in doubt is whether Team North will be a part of it.
The Aboriginal Sports...