Yellowknife is inching closer to hosting its biggest sporting event to date, but even with a City Council vote next Monday, it’s still unclear how much the Canada Winter Games will cost. The games would see thousands of athletes, coaches and volunteers descend on Yellowknife for 18 different sports played over a two-week period in
The City’s longstanding stalemate with lakeside squatters saw slight movement on Monday when council voted to research licensing options for unregistered floatplane docks on Latham Island. The area in question is a stretch of City-leased land between Watt and Otto Drives that has played host to unlicensed floatplane docks for over a decade. Two weeks
After years as antagonists, the NWT Floatplane Society and Latham Island Neighbourhood Association found common ground on Monday over waterfront development in Old Town. Lisa Scott and Hal Logsdon, Presidents of LINA and the Floatplane society, agreed the dilapidated dock and gravel lot on Wiley Road, just down from the Wildcat, should become a park
The current Yellowknife electoral boundaries map | produced for Elections NWT by the NWT Centre for Geomatics City council looks set to take the GNWT to court over Yellowknife’s under-representation in the legislative assembly. The four councillors present at Monday’s municipal services committee expressed interest in a legal challenge, though it won’t be discussed officially
The latest skirmish in a marathon rezoning battle that’s been raging for 13 years between Range Lake residents and developer TC Enterprises came to an impasse on Monday. City council agreed to send TC’s proposal to build a second three-storey apparent building in Bartesko Court back to administration after incensed neighbours packed the municipal services
With the Gold Range and Raven remaining out of reach, the City plans to revitalize downtown through the purchase of the vacant parking lot at the corner of 50th and 50th. City council voted in favour of buying the land on Monday. Council was split down the middle on the controversial $1.45 million purchase that
Some people can have a few drinks and then stop. I’m often one of them – but admittedly, I’m often not. Yellowknife is known as a hard-drinking town and social options regularly revolve around drinking and socializing. In fact, we’re some of the hardest drinkers in the country. The 2009 NWT Addictions Report, conducted by