Inuvik Drum

With a year missed in 2020 due to the pandemic, the Inuvik Muskrat Jamboree kicked off its 65th anniversary raising over $109,000 between four fundraising ‘royalty couples’ in six weeks.

With the Easter weekend’s Thursday-to-Monday carnival from April 6 to 10, this year’s Aklavik’s Mad Trapper Rendezvous was fundraised uniquely by the lead of all-women fundraisers.

Chief Paul Niditchie School in Tsiigehtchic was put under lockdown this morning after an individual discharged a firearm in the community.

Beaufort Delta District Education Council (BDDEC) is aggressively working to improve graduation rates.

It’s no secret volunteering isn’t as common an activity as it used to be, but how does that affect the organizations that rely on them?

By Karli Zschögner

This week we have a story about the Canadian military flip-flopping on whether it needs to use the “green hangar” right outside NORAD’s forward operating base at the airport.

Recent flip-flops by the Canadian Forces on whether they want to rent an operation-ready aviation hangar or not left Les Klapatiuk scratching his head.

Students from across the Beaufort Delta showed off their passion for knowledge at Beaufort Delta District Education Council’s Wisdom Fest. The annual fair allows students to explore projects in science, passion or heritage and provides cash prizes for the best work in several age groups. Students learned about concepts are varied as the political spectrum to hunting and trapping techniques and beyond.

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