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RCMP members in Igloolik managed to cope with a suicidal 16-year-old boy with a firearm June 30, in an incident in which no one was injured and no shots were fired.
Police were called to the incident at around 7:20 a.m. that day, and managed to arrest the boy before anyone was hurt.
Later in the...
A U.S. court has upheld a decision to protect polar bears as a “threatened” species under the American Endangered Species Act.
In the June 30 decision, U.S. district judge Emmet Sullivan ruled in favour of a U.S. Fish and Wildlife service’s 2008 decision to protect the bear because of the melting...
The Nunavut RCMP says they’ve reduced a possible “spike in calls for assistance” because of two sets of contraband seizures in Pangnirtung and Qikiqtarjuaq this past week.
In Pangnirtung, a dry community, cops arrested a man and a woman June 26, seizing 14 bottles of bootleg vodka and 28 grams of...
The education ministers for Canada’s three northern territories signed an agreement June 30 to look at the idea of expanding university education for northern students.
“It is the next logical step in the evolution of our post-secondary institutions…,” Jackson Lafferty, the Northwest Territories...
Canada turns 144 years old July 1.
And residents of Nunavut and Nunavik will be celebrating Friday, with festivities planned in most communities.
Iqaluit residents can enjoy a full day of Canada Day events, starting with a pancake breakfast at 9:00 a.m. at the AWG arena.
At noon, a Canada Day...
ROBERT HILTZ
Postmedia News
OTTAWA — Environment Minister Peter Kent announced June 30 the third phase of the search for Sir John Franklin’s lost ships from an 1845 expedition to discover the Northwest Passage.
In an announcement attended by British High Commissioner Dr. Andrew Pocock, and...
The architects of Iqaluit’s waste management project have presented a vision on how the city can improve waste treatment, including possible recycling, composting and waste-to-energy programs.
The city’s current landfill is not only full but considered a hazard after it burned for several weeks...
A Cape Dorset boy was wounded in the thigh June 29 after he and four other boys began playing with live .22 calibre bullet they found on the ground, a Nunavut RCMP news release said.
When one of the boys began hitting the bullet with a rock, the round exploded and another boy was struck in the...
The Government of Nunavut will become permanent guardians of four children born to a mother deemed incapable of providing them with adequate care, under a judgment issued June 27 by the Nunavut Court of Justice.
Justice P.M. Clarke, a fly-in deputy judge from Alberta, wrote the decision after a...
Searchers have found a canoe used by three missing Salluit hunters who disappeared June 8 after setting out on a seal hunting trip, a spokesperson for the Kativik Regional Government said June 30 in an email.
“It has been confirmed that this boat is the one that was used by the hunters missing...
Late Inuit leader Jose Kusugak, retired Anglican minister Mike Gardener and the late translator and educator Mark Kalluak have become the first recipients of the Order of Nunavut, the order’s advisory council announced June 29 in a news release
The new order, established in 2010, is the highest...
Worldwide, 2010 was one of the two warmest years on record, says the 2010 State of the Climate report, released June 27 by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
On the Arctic, the State of the Climate shows how 2010 marked the end of the warmest decade since instrument records...
People in Cambridge Bay who want to drive out of town to Mount Pelly have been out of luck since June 23.
That’s when a bridge that spans the river en route to Ovayuk Territorial Park was closed for safety reasons, hamlet SAO Stephen King told Nunatsiaq News.
The water levels under the bridge...
Nunavik’s Saputiit Youth Association decided June 29 to cancelled a regional youth conference planned for next month.
The Qanak steering committee said it had “no other choice but to cancel.”
The gathering was scheduled to take place in Kangiqsujuaq in early July — the second edition of last...
Iqaluit’s city council has a new member, with the June 28 appointment of Stephen Mansell.
And he says he’s committed to developing the city’s infrastructure and services – particularly Iqaluit’s landfill site.
“I really support getting a better solid waste program,” he told Nunatsiaq News. “As a...
Ottawa helped pay the cost of bringing hundreds of students and counsellors to Inuvik this week for the Truth and Reconciliation gathering there, John Duncan, the federal minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, said June 28 in a statement.
Duncan, who attended the June 28 opening...
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