Great Slave Lake

• Team from Wilfrid Laurier University helps install lifesaving technology in remote northern community

  Łutsël K'é, a small village which is home to around 300 people, is located on Great Slave Lake and is only accessible via air, boat or ice.

  Canada

  Apr 12, 2023
  
• RCMP say it’s unlikely missing fishermen in Northwest Territories are still alive

  RCMP say all viable search options to locate four fishermen missing on Great Slave Lake have been exhausted.

  Canada

  Oct 3, 2019
  
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• RCMP release names of 4 fishermen missing in Northwest Territories, 3 are from Alberta

  RCMP have released the names of four fishermen who have been missing from an outing on Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories.

  Canada

  Oct 2, 2019
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• Search for 3 overdue travellers suspended after body spotted on Great Slave Lake

  The trio left the Yellowknife area on a snowmobile Monday bound for Lutsel'ke on the eastern edge of the lake, but were reported overdue on Tuesday.

  Canada

  May 18, 2019
• Caribou hunting quotas make scapegoats out of northern First Nations: study

  Newly published research argues Indigenous hunting didn't cause the collapse of once-mighty caribou herds in Canada's North and harvest bans only force First Nations to shoulder the blame for problems they didn't create.

  Canada

  Feb 28, 2018
• Climate change doubles size of lakes in Northwest Territories

  New research suggests that climate change has mysteriously caused lakes in a northern protected area to nearly double in size.

  Canada

  Feb 23, 2017
• UPDATE: Overdue boat with 5 people aboard found on Great Slave Lake

  RCMP say five people on an overdue boat on Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories have been found safe.

  Canada

  Jul 7, 2016
• Plane makes forced landing near Yellowknife, 7 people rescued

  A small passenger plane with seven people on board made a forced landing in bad weather on the ice of Great Slave Lake on Thursday, and have since been rescued.

  Canada

  Nov 20, 2014
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• Ottawa reconsiders toxic sites priorities after Giant Mine cleanup

  Environmental costs at a single northern mine are ballooning so high they are forcing Ottawa to rethink the cleanup of thousands of contaminated sites across the country.

  Canada

  Apr 1, 2013