The results are in for the 2024 Council of the Haida Nation election, and Jason Alsop (Gaagwiis) has been re-elected as President, securing 61.4% of the votes. Gaagwiis garnered...
Sdahl K’awaas, Lucy Bell, recipient of the British Columbia Reconciliation Award, is a dedicated advocate for repatriation and the dismantling of systemic racism within...
Daajing Giids RCMP weekly report November 10th - Nov 17th, 2024
Suspicious Occurrence
At approximately 02:11 a.m. on November 11th, the Daajing Giids RCMP was called...
Surrounded by loved ones and supporters, North Coast-Haida Gwaii’s newest MLA, Tamara Davidson, was sworn into office at the B.C. legislature on Nov. 13....
The Sandspit airport may lose its refuelling service for planes and helicopters after Dec. 31, raising concerns about the impact on local air traffic,...
More islanders can buy baking, hot food, preserves and other treats at local farmers markets this year.
Thanks to a nearly $20,000 grant for food-systems...
Daajing Giids councillors have hired engineers to design more reliable controls and communications systems for the Honna River water treatment plant. Expected to be...
More than 170 derelict cars in Sandpit got drained, crushed into cubes and scrapped off-island this fall.
Using surplus funds that came from taxes paid...
Plans for wastewater treatment are flowing again in Daajing Giids.
On Oct. 7, Daajing Giids council voted unanimously to hire the consulting firm Urban Systems...
Rolling through Skidegate Heights in a brand-new recycling truck last Wednesday, Filene Mussell held up a pizza-sauce bottle without a speck of food inside.
It...
Kids crawled under Slide Tunnel Mountain and wheeled toy cars with sock feet at the first Kindergym in Daajing Giids last week.
With brightly coloured...
School district enrolment grows
For the first time in years, Haida Gwaii public schools have at least 500 students.
The total number of students in Haida...
A false claim about vaccines by local BC Conservative candidate Chris Sankey surfaced in the first leaders' debate of the Oct. 19 B.C. election.
While...
Hundreds gathered in Skidegate on Saturday to celebrate the Council of the Haida Nation's first 50 years.
Before talking about how Haida title was recognized...
A local resident is asking Masset council to think about turning the village's existing library into a corner park after it closes.
Veronika Higlister works...
Tamara Davidson, Laanas, says she is running for North Coast-Haida Gwaii MLA because she believes in putting people first.
Speaking last week from a newly...
Another CAO search for Daajing Giids
The Village of Daajing Giids is on the lookout again for a new chief administrative officer.
Mike Drake will be...
Haida Gwaii internet services are back to normal after crews repaired a fibre-optic line break south of Masset on Monday, Sept. 16.
Crews from CityWest...
According to Earthquakes Canada, a magnitude 4.2 earthquake struck about 66 km west-southwest of Port Clements at 8:17 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 3.
The earthquake...
Village tangles with welfare concerns; owner says horse is misunderstood
Daajing Giids is a one-horse town but it might not stay so.
In early June, owner...
Haida Gwaii patients will have access to state-of-the-art imaging scans when the new Terrace hospital opens in November.
This spring and summer, a new SPECT-CT,...
Community clean-ups are a fixture in villages across Haida Gwaii.
Summer brings more people to the islands, which also means more garbage in communities and...
Skidegate’s new Xaayda Naay House opened for a sneak preview during Skidegate Days on Saturday, July 20.
From a balcony on the new 24-unit apartment...
Double bursaries from the Village of Daajing Giids
Local high school graduates Paisley Nelson and Daymon Wrubel were each awarded $500 bursaries by the Village...
Everyone hushed in the Tahayghen Elementary gym when boys in Haida regalia entered shaking rattles to start the school’s closing ceremony.
Next came all the...
Recognition of Haida aboriginal title under B.C. law will take effect on Friday, July 5.
The provincial law that recognizes Haida Nation title, the Haida...
Tamara Davidson, Laanas, will be the BC NDP candidate for North Coast-Haida Gwaii for the next provincial election on Oct. 19.
Davidson was elected by...
Tamara Davidson, Laanas, is campaigning to be the next BC NDP candidate for North Coast-Haida Gwaii.
If she wins the party nomination, Davidson will be...
Haida Gwaii patients who need a medevac flight to the mainland will soon fly on new and better equipped planes.
BC Emergency Health Services (BCEHS)...
Tell your hottest friends—Haida Gwaii may be one of the only places in Canada to experience near-normal temperatures this summer.
Jennifer Smith, a meteorologist with...
Masset potholes are getting nervous.
Starting this June to September and continuing June to September next year, the Village of Masset will repave 38 streets...
A new local emergency alert system is expected to replace the system currently used by Haida Gwaii municipalities, band councils, and the North Coast...
