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Eric Clapton said it best: “Don’t forget this fact, you can’t get it back, cocaine.”
Nunavut cops busted two Iqaluit residents in a cocaine trafficking investigation June 28.
About 15 grams — or half an ounce — of cocaine was nabbed in a joint investigation by the RCMP’s V Division Federal...
A Nunavut man who stabbed 13-year-old Jennifer Naglingniq 31 times in her Iqaluit home in 2002 has died in his jail cell.
Mark King Jeffrey, 34, was found unresponsive June 29 at the medium-security Beaver Creek Institution near Gravenhurst, Ont., a federal prison run by Corrections...
Not only can your dreams come true if you believe in yourself, but they can connect you to people and take you places you can’t even imagine.
That’s what more than 120 moviegoers at Iqaluit’s Astro Hill Theatre heard June 29 as they watched “Circus Without Borders,” a film presented by the annual...
Nearly six months after the departure of its last full-time chair, the board that oversees the Qulliq Energy Corp. now has a new one: Julie-Anne Miller of Iqaluit, who has served as interim chair since February 2014.
She succeeds David Omilgoitok, who quit the position this past February to...
Nunatsiaq Online readers were hungry last week for news about what’s been brewing inside Iqaluit’s municipal council chambers.
For the final full week of June, our most-read online stories flowed from a June 23 Iqaluit city council meeting, as tracked by Google Analytics pageviews.
1)In our top...
Corrected 12:35 p.m., June 30
A Nunavik youth who walked into a high school with a loaded rifle earlier this month now faces four charges in relation to that incident.
On the afternoon of June 5, the Kativik School Board said a student walked into Iguarsivik secondary school in Puvirnituq with a......
The crash of Perimeter Aviation flight 993 in Sanikiluaq, which killed a six-month-old infant when it missed the runway Dec. 22 2012, came in “too high, too steep and too fast,” investigators with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada said June 29.
The TSB released its investigation report two...
About 50 people huddle in a small room usually reserved for Inuit elders and Inuktitut conversation.
But instead of telling Inuit legends, on June 28 musicians are turning the elder’s qammaq in Iqaluit into a haven for singing songs and telling tales of how, why and what inspires them.
It’s an...
Igloolik’s Joshua Haulli is Alianait’s official band champ for 2015.
The 16-year-old and his friend, Ricky Immaroitok, 18, flew from Igloolik on their own dime to win the $1,000 grand prize June 28 under the big top tent in Iqaluit.
The Battle of the Bands is an annual Alianait competition where...
Paul Bychok, a respected lawyer who recently retired as a Crown prosecutor in Nunavut, will now serve as a judge of the Nunavut Court of Justice.
Peter MacKay, the federal justice minister, made the announcement June 26.
Bychok fills a spot on the Nunavut bench vacated May 28 by Andrew Mahar, who...
Nunavik police have seized dozens of bottles of bootlegged liquor that were destined for residents of the Hudson Strait community of Salluit.
Kativik Regional Police Force officers in Salluit picked up 168 bottles of vodka that had been flown in as cargo June 22.
In an email to Nunatsiaq News,...
If we’re talking trash, Iqaluit has to step up its game.
Iqaluit residents tried last week, on June 19, to clean up the capital during the annual spring cleanup, but the day was marred by snowy rain.
Usually the annual cleanup means a morning away from the office cubicle to walk around town in...
It took several years of trying, rigorous security checks for everyone, including babies, a few good words from their local MP, and two days of multi-band rehearsals for Nunavut rockers, the Jerry Cans, to make it into the line-up on Parliament Hill for the afternoon Canada Day show July 1.
All...
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