From left: Cabin Radio's Jesse Wheeler, Andrew Goodwin, Ollie Williams and Scott Letkeman (with son Porter) alongside consultants Rita Cugini and Andrew Forsyth at a hearing for an FM licence on February 11, 2025. Photo: Bill Braden
These images helped tell the NWT’s stories in 2025
In 2025, Cabin Radio added nearly 6,000 images to its collection with the help of staff photographers and residents’ submissions.
Here, we’ve selected some of our favourite shots that showcase a slice of a busy year.
Thank you to everyone who submitted photos to help illustrate our stories or fill the Big Picture photo space on our homepage. If you’d like to submit photos in 2026, you can send them via email.
This year’s annual photo gallery starts in January and works its way through the year, highlighting the festivals, rallies, sports, disasters and landscapes of 2025.
Unicorn Natasha McCagg twirls a fibre optic light as the Yellowknife Ski Club kicks off the year with a Safari After Dark ski. Sarah Pruys/Cabin Radio
Electric vehicle charging stations outside the NWT Power Corporation in Hay River in January. An EV charging corridor from Yellowknife to the south was supposed to be ready by March, but wasn’t officially completed until September. Emily Blake/Cabin Radio
The Snowking shows off the chilly temperature as construction of the 2025 Snowcastle begins. Photo: Snowkings’ Winter Festival
Fortescue’s Warren Fish, right, presents a kangaroo skin to Tłı̨chǫ Grand Chief Jackson Lafferty at an agreement signing ceremony during Roundup 2025. Sarah Pruys/Tłı̨chǫ Government
Canadian Rangers with Canadian Armed Forces officials on Parsons Lake during Operation Nanook-Nunalivut. Emily Blake/Cabin Radio
NWT speed skater Joshua Boudreau on the ice during the 2025 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Turin. He took home three medals from the games. Photo: Special Olympics Canada
A protest for Gaza in downtown Yellowknife on March 19, 2025. Aastha Sethi/Cabin Radio
Liberal Party supporters with winning candidate Rebecca Alty, centre, on election night. Sarah Pruys/Cabin Radio
Five year old Westlyn Takazo, seven-year-old Azalea Takazo and Bella Louison, 11, with cotton candy at the Norman Wells 2025 Spring Fling. Photo: Bill Braden
That time both Cabin Radio and Skills Canada NWT built outhouses right next to each other for the Yellowknife Chamber of Commerce Spring Trade Show. Left: Skills Canada outhouse. Right: Cabin Radio outhouse. Centre: Perturbed man. Ollie Williams/Cabin Radio
These Folk on the Rocks attendees were forced to leave the site when a storm became too powerful for the show to continue. Elke Sorensen/Cabin Radio
Mark Carney prepares, slightly riskily given the absence of a lid, to blend a smoothie during a visit to Fort Smith. He told the children that the broccoli contained in the smoothie would help them grow to be the size of Premier RJ Simpson, left. Ollie Williams/Cabin Radio
Wildfire FS014 is seen on July 29, 2025. Photo: Dëneze Nakehk’o
People join a drum dance at the Yellowknives Dene First Nation’s Xat’o fall gathering. Emily Blake/Cabin Radio
Solenn Kikoak leads her women’s 1500m heat on lap one at the Canada Games track in St John’s. Ollie Williams/Team NT
Sailboats on Yellowknife’s Back Bay on August 20, 2025. Sarah Pruys/Cabin Radio
A child emerges from the mud pit at the CIBC Run for Our Lives Mud Run. Sarah Pruys/CIBC Run for Our Lives
“Our grandson Marley (12) shot his first moose a few days ago,” Ron Doctor wrote from Tulita, enclosing this photo. “This is close to camp. We are all very proud of him.”
Colville Lake’s church is seen consumed by flames on the morning of September 16, 2025. Photo: Joey Kochon
A submitted photo of East Three Secondary School students on Orange Shirt Day.
From left: Behchokǫ̀ Chief Bertha Rabesca Zoe, infrastructure minister Vince McKay, Tłı̨chǫ Grand Chief Jackson Lafferty, and Monfwi MLA Jane Weyallon Armstrong pose for a photo at a ceremony for the start of construction on the new Dehk’è Frank Channel Bridge. Emily Blake/Cabin Radio
A submitted photo of an encampment fire in Yellowknife. Photo: Chris Black
The crowd cheers as Jacki McKinnon correctly spells the championship word – Deninu Kųę́, without the diacritics – to win Cabin Radio’s Adult Spelling Bee. Sarah Pruys/Cabin Radio
Evan Cockney, Jett Etter, Meghan Etter-Cockney and Tamara Hansen attended a Toronto Blue Jays World Series game. Photo: Meghan Etter-Cockney
