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It’s been a decade since Derek White last roared around a NASCAR racetrack, but in just a few short weeks he’s going to be back in the driver’s seat. 

The council table will no longer sit idly as the Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) rail line sprays glyphosate in the territory. The rail company has a history of spraying the chemical herbicide alongside the tracks that run through Kahnawake, but it won’t be permitted to continue any longer, Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) chief Jeremiah Johnson said.

After almost a decade and a half of owning and operating Depanneur et Gas Guimond, Gina Deer is going home.

Back in 1994, Mavis “Connie” McArdle was on the brink of death. She needed a life-saving liver transplant fast, after an autoimmune disease made hers stop working.

Michel Mathieu was just 14 when he wired his own radio transmitter, broadcasting his very own radio station to the blocks surrounding his home - no license, but heaps of confidence in his own remarkable aptitude for the art of radio.

Wihse Stacey heads up the Kahnawake Fire Brigade, so he knows better than most that injuries and trauma can strike anyone at any time.

For the first time since two cars plunged into the water two years ago, ice racing is back in town, with throngs of fans and racers showing up to the Kahnawake Marina on Sunday to mark the beginning of the season and let that snow fly.

After printing over 2,000 issues over the course of 42 years, Turtle Island’s longest-running Kanien’kehá:ka newspaper is calling it quits.  Indian Time, based in Akwesasne, ran its second-to-last print issue on November 14 and will run its last on December 19.  Editor Marjorie Skidders said they can no longer afford to print amid a stark plummet in ad revenue.  “It really is sad,” she told The Eastern Door.

They will no longer be running on Indian Time. Sadly, Akwesasne will be, by the end of this year, devoid of an independent media free of overt political influence, and whether you live there or not, you should be concerned.

Of his own admission, Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) chief Arnold Boyer is not one to usually sport facial hair.