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After three years, the Deh Cho Bridge might finally be starting to pay for itself. The $202-million monument to the dangers of unstable financial backing managed to rake in more revenues from tolling during the latest fiscal year than anticipated, according to Transportation officials. Tolls for freight vehicles heading northwards across the bridge added up

Good news everybody! Downtown Yellowknife is about to get a lot tastier and slightly dancier if all goes to plan. Along with the much-anticipated Korea House, which is still firming up opening dates and menu items, here are three potentially exciting new projects set to open in the coming months. Twist and Shout Twist owners

Dwayne Wohlgemuth just wanted a steady supply of fresh goat’s milk when he brought a nanny and her female kid to his Yellowknife home four years ago. Instead, he got a social movement. The nanny was a Nubian, known to be a good milking breed, but a bout with mastitis severely compromised her milk supply

Names are complicated things, as Jesse James Gon can tell you. In musical circles, he’s best known as Diga, or (mistakenly) as Digawolf, the name of his Juno-nominated and Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards-winning band. Back in his home community, people still call him by his childhood Tlicho nickname. “In Behchoko, my father used to go

The Gold Range, our venerable, sticky-floored institution, has always been a jumping joint, but in its glory days during the exploration boom of the 1970s and ’80s, this 254-person-capacity bar was especially bursting at its seams. And, supposedly, busting records. According to its Wikipedia entry: “In 1988, The Gold Range sold more beer [per capita]

An attempt to revive the NWT’s conflict-free gem brand has just taken its final bow By now, it must be clear to the boffins at Industry Tourism and Investment and their minister, Dave Ramsay, that Deepak International Ltd. will never put the shine back on Diamond Row. DIL and its owner, Deepak Kumar, were fully

Seven years ago, one of Johanna Tiemessen’s regular students in her Nia class – a mix of dance, yoga and martial arts that focuses on grounding, breathing and a lot of free-moving limbs – asked her to attend the birth of her second child. She wanted to introduce the concept of mindful-movement into her labour. Tiemessen

There’s no denying that northern youth carry within them a creativity informed by the expansive, often austere magnificence of their isolated surroundings. For those born in an Arctic environment from an indigenous culture, it’s in their DNA. But sometimes it takes a pair of fresh eyes, or two pairs, to bring all that talent into

Have a story about Yellowknife or the NWT you think some 23 million people should hear? Well, get ye to the BBC Pop Up town hall tonight night at 7:00 p.m. at Northern United Place. This roving band of BBC journalists have been travelling across the country for the past three weeks, looking for under-reported Canadian stories.

In August 1995, two months after he’d moved to Yellowknife, Rob Thom was over in Europe, cycling into Paris and feeling loopy. It was the last 50 kilometres of a famous 1200-kilometre race from Paris to Brest and back again, and Rob had slept a total of three hours in the last three days. “It’s

Amy Maund’s soaps, teas, salves and other products are sourced in the NWT and northern B.C., and processed on the Ingraham Trail On a cold and rainy day earlier this fall, EDGE headed up the Ingraham Trail to visit the home of Amy Maund, founder of Laughing Lichen Wildcrafted Herbs and Teas. After our recent foraging

View of Sir John Franklin High School looking north from the roof of Fraser Tower in summer. The round building next to the school is a swimming pool. 1971. N-2006-009: 0012 NWT Archives, J. Lewis Robinson fonds. By Catherine Dook The year they built the kindergarten teepee behind Mildred Hall was the year I had

Twenty-three people face drug trafficking charges as a month of intensive RCMP anti-drug operations comes to a close in Yellowknife. “In addition to the arrests and seizures which were previously reported on September 1st, 21st and 22nd,” according to a press release sent out Thursday afternoon, “the RCMP has arrested an additional six individuals for

Following a recent sale, the former addictions treatment centre on the road to Dettah, which has sat largely unused for the past ten years, will be reborn as a hotel and tourism operation focused on Chinese tourists. Plans for the property and the 14-room Somba K’e Lodge are still unclear, but things seem to be