EDMONTON - A convoy of Edmonton-based soldiers left Wednesday morning on a three-day northern trek to Yellowknife to prepare for a major training exercise in the cold. The convoy of about 80 vehicles and 230 soldiers from the 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade ...

AuroraMAX is a public engagement initiative by the University of Calgary, the City of Yellowknife, Astronomy North and the Canadian Space Agency, which features an online observatory that broadcasts the aurora live from Yellowknife. Over the next six weeks ...

YELLOWKNIFE - Aviation services company Discovery Air (TSX:DA.A) says it has acquired a Chilean helicopter services company for an undisclosed price. The company said Thursday its subsidiary, Great Slave Helicopters Ltd., had completed the purchase of ...

YELLOWKNIFE, NT, Jan. 31, 2012 /CNW/ - Discovery Air Innovations (DAI), in collaboration with the Canadian Transportation Research Forum, is pleased to announce the first annual Hybrid Air Vehicle (HAV) student paper competition.  DAI ...

Based on the top-rated TV show of the same name, the book follows renegade Buffalo Airways in Yellowknife as they defy the cold and competition using Second World War-era planes to haul vital supplies to remote outposts across northern Canada.

The N.W.T. Department of Municipal and Community Affairs is considering opening up 35 more leases on Commissioner’s Land near Yellowknife. The leases would be on land near Walsh, Banting and Prosperous Lakes on the Ingraham Trail. Current leaseholders ...

Doug Mahugh of Seattle is in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, to see and photograph the Northern Lights for the first time. "What an amazing experience to finally see the northern lights in person," he said. "And with the weather clear and ...

A Seattle photographer recently braved the ultra cold winter nights of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories to catch a glimpse of the Northern Lights -- and he wasn't disappointed. Doug Mahugh made the trek up north to visit friends he had met on ...

It was billed as the Mayor’s annual state of the city address, but Yellowknife mayor Gordon Van Tighem used the occasion to announce he will not seek re-election this fall. He made the announcement at the Yellowknife Chamber of Commerce luncheon.

OTTAWA - Yellowknife will host the Canadian senior curling championships for the first time in 2014. The men's and women's events will be held March 22-30, 2014, at the Yellowknife Curling Centre, the Canadian Curling Association announced Tuesday.

Boxxer also has the Crescent Peak gold-silver project in Nevada and the Gordon Lake gold project located 110 kilometres north of Yellowknife NWT, Canada. Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined ...

Charles Hamelin of Sainte-Julie, Que., won gold with a time of one minute 28.748 seconds. He was followed closely by Yellowknife's Michael Gilday (1:28.835) and Olivier Jean (1:28.979) of Lachenaie, Que. "I've never seen that, for sure," Gilday said of the ...

Stock in Fortune Minerals was down 4.35% near the end of trading on Wednesday. The NICO project is located 160 km northwest of Yellowknife, NWT. The 31 million-tonne deposit would be a combination open pit and underground mine. Ore would be processed at ...

YELLOWKNIFE, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES — Today the Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency and Minister of Health, together with the Honourable David Ramsay, Northwest Territories Minister of ...

Yellowknife mayor Gord Van Tighem says this anniversary is a reminder of the importance of having search and rescue based closer to the North. “I know that they have looked at the numbers. The numbers are much lower in the north because there is much ...

"Dr. Latour's extensive experience with the Canadian Wildlife Service in Yellowknife will be a great asset to the Board," Minister Duncan said. "We look forward to his future contributions as an alternate member of the Board." The Sahtu Renewable Resources ...

Leela Gilday can add another trophy to her mantle. The Yellowknife singer-songwriter just won the Aboriginal Female Entertainer of the Year award. The awards were handed out at the 6th annual Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards in Winnipeg this weekend.

After opening with 7-3 and 6-4 wins over B.C.’s Doug Marshall and Steve Moss of Yellowknife, NWT, respectively, she thumped Yukon’s Scott Hamilton 11-3. The skip from Curling Beausejour in Moncton picked up a huge five on the sixth to settle things on ...

Yet, at the same time, most of the citizens are living off less than $2 a day. Located in the middle of nowhere Canada, Yellowknife has an extremely high cost of living for a city that can only be reached from the South by plane in the summer.

Youth from across the North were in Yellowknife this week for the second Young Leaders’ Summit on Northern Climate Change, held Nov. 10–12. The aim of the summit was to prepare the youth to speak nationally and internationally on the effects of climate ...