Yellowknifer

A fire broke out on Tuesday morning at an abandoned building formerly occupied by a longstanding Yellowknife business.

Despite outbreaks of monkeypox appearing across the country, there are still no confirmed cases of the virus in the NWT, according to a spokesperson with the Department of Health and Social Services (HSS).

More than two years after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Yellowknifers are still hard-pressed to find rapid Covid-19 tests in local pharmacies.

Sandra MacKenzie is the new president of the Yellowknife Chamber of Commerce as of Aug. 23.

Starting Sept. 19, a new parking payment system will become operational at the Yellowknife Airport at 8 a.m., according to the Department of Infrastructure.

Yellowknife RCMP are investigating two break and enters that occurred during the weekend on 48 Street and 50 Avenue.

“In the old days, if there was a family that was living in one location - like rabbit skin - there would be four or five families living there. And the old hunters would be hiking out there hunting their stocky moose, and sometimes in the fall time they would shoot three or four moose, all hanging around together, and they would get them all, OK?

Due to wildfires in the territory and the smoke that comes as a result, air quality in several Northwest Territory-based communities, such as Yellowknife and Norman Wells, are at levels of ‘moderate risk’ to ‘high risk’ (according to the Government of Canada’s Air Quality Health Index).

The Government of the Northwest Territories Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) division have announced “a credible cougar sighting” that was reported to them yesterday, August, 18.

Yellowknife RCMP have provided an update on one of the break and enters that occurred at the downtown liquor store in the City.