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After finding a a woman nearly frozen to death in the early morning of Jan.25, Iqaluit RCMP are warning people to dress for the cold weather and to ensure they are physically able to get home safely if they are out drinking
Police, responding to a call at around 2:00 a.m., found a 59-year-old...
The Nunavut NDP riding association is not supporting any particular candidate at the party’s upcoming leadership convention this March in Toronto, members decided at a public meeting Jan. 26.
The riding association held the gathering to focus on the current NDP federal leadership race, but said...
DNA testing may have put an end to a long-held Arctic tale: that Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen fathered a son in Gjoa Haven more than 100 years ago.
The Fram Museum in Oslo, Norway recently did a DNA analysis to verify speculation that Amundsen fathered a baby with an Inuit woman in Gjoa...
RCMP members in Cambridge Bay have arrested and charged a local man with three counts of drug trafficking after police discovered cocaine and marijuana in mail parcels en route to the Kitikmeot community.
On Jan. 10, Canada Post inspectors intercepted two packages headed to Cambridge Bay; one...
It would lower the cost of living and bring new opportunities to the region, but Nunavimmiut hold mixed feelings about the idea of a road linking their largest community, Kuujjuaq, to Quebec’s southern road network.
The region got its first look at what that potential link might look like Jan. 25,...
A new Statistics Canada report shows that about one-third of people living in Canada’s three territories reported being the victim of a crime in 2009.
And nearly half (46 per cent) of those self-reported incidents in the territories were violent, with assault being the most common crime reported,...
Jobie Tukkiapik spent the evening of Jan. 19 in his Kuujjuaq home with family, friends and a “hunch” that he might get elected.
His hunch turned out to be right; Tukkiapik beat out three other candidates to take over as president of Makivik Corp. that night, in what was a tight race with the...
RCMP arrested a Hall Beach man this week after local police seized marijuana, cash and other drug paraphernalia from a residence in the community Jan. 24.
Hall Beach resident Philip Siakuluk has been charged with possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking under the Controlled Drugs and...
Iqaluit City Council has asked the city’s chief bylaw officer, Kevin Sloboda, to draft a bylaw aimed at deterring persistent loitering in front of store entrances and other places, following a discussion Jan. 24.
“Any new law enacted has to be sensitive to the underlying social conditions that...
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