Your choices: the five most-read stories on Nunatsiaq Online last week

It was tales of people — good, troubled, lucky and unlucky — that attracted most of you to the Nunatsiaq Online website and the Nunatsiaq News Facebook page last week.

Here are the Nunatsiaq Online stories that you clicked, tapped or swiped most often, based on Google Analytics pageview data:

• The most-read story between May 16 to May 22? It was a worrying tale with a happy ending. Brian Koonoo, a Pond Inlet man who went missing May 15 while on a long snowmobile trip to Repulse Bay, walked into Repulse Bay early May 20 after travelling 57 kilometres on foot over three days.

• The second most popular story reported on outraged emergency medical technicians in Iqaluit, after of one of their team members suffered an annoying theft. At about 2:30 a.m. May 16, while crews rushed out of the fire station to respond to a medical emergency, security cameras caught a young man inside the empty fire hall stealing a backpack belonging to an Iqaluit EMT.

• And then there was the inspiring story about how Laurie and David Pelly started the Ayalik Fund for children to honour the memory of their late adopted son Eric Ayalik Okalitana Pelly, who died suddenly in 2014 at age 19.

• In fourth spot, a short update on the case of Jonathan Cruz, the well-known Iqaluit artist who faces multiple assault charges. He did not appear in court May 21, but lawyer Alison Crowe filed a document called a “counsel designation form,” which means she is now acknowledged as his defence counsel. The charges are as yet unproven in court and Cruz has yet to enter pleas.

Readers also clicked often on a story about how the Nunavut RCMP charged six people with impaired driving over the May long weekend as part of National Driving Enforcement Day May 16. Police set up checkpoints in communities across Nunavut, stopping more than 400 vehicles.

Note: A pageview is defined as a single view of a page on a website. If a reader clicks reload after reaching a page, that’s counted as an additional pageview. If a user navigates to a different page and then returns, a second pageview is recorded.