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Consultations over how to best make use of over 500 acres of land straddling Highway 30 officially kicked off at a “Lands Summit” hosted this week at the Knights of Columbus.

Nine additional officers will soon join the ranks of the Kahnawake Peacekeepers, following a boost in funding recently negotiated with Quebec and Canada.

Council chief David Diabo has some food for thought after returning from a recent emergency preparedness conference hosted in Ottawa by the Canadian Red Cross.

It might feel like the project just broke ground, but Kahnawa’kehró:non driving up Highway 132 might have noticed the Kahnawà:ke Cultural Arts Center (KCAC)

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) is encouraging community members to attend a “lands summit” that’ll be hosted at the Knights of Columbus next month.

The news that former United States president Joe Biden was granting former American Indian Movement (AIM) member Leonard Peltier clemency to serve out the rest of his life sentence at home was unexpected for many across Turtle Island – including Denise Pictou Maloney, who believes that Peltier was complicit in the 1975 murder of her mother, Annie Mae Pictou in South Dakota.

It’s just after 11 a.m. at Diabo’s restaurant, and the rush has already begun.  The chip stand on Route 207 just off Highway 30 has never struggled to attract clients, especially non-locals, but it’s been exceptionally hectic as of late.

The patrol of local highways largely used by non-locals takes up a major chunk of the Kahnawake Peacekeepers’ resources. Accidents along Route 207 and Highway 138 happen on a weekly basis, and the work the police force has to dedicate to preventing fatalities isn’t being fairly compensated for by the province, according to many on the Council table.

An environmental group filed a judicial review at Quebec Superior Court this Wednesday in the hope of halting a city-led plan to build housing over wetlands in Chateauguay.

The annual Christmas Bird Count in Kahnawake saw 34 different species of birds spotted within the community. “The most exciting thing is the variety of birds we saw,” said Julie Delisle, environmental projects coordinator at the Kahnawake Environment Protection Office (KEPO), who coordinated the count.