Northwest Territories News

The Inuvik Native Band says it will use $1.6 million provided through the federal Jordan's Principle to offer more programming for youth aged up to 18.

The City of Yellowknife says Saturday's planned welcome-home outdoor gathering at Somba K'e Park has been cancelled because of air quality concerns.

Even for a city that's seen a lot lately, Saturday morning's deep orange sky was enough to stop residents in their tracks.

The NWT Power Corporation has dealt with low water levels at its hydro plants before, but says the current drought is "about as dire a situation as we've seen."

The NWT government is launching grants of up to $2,500 to help Indigenous governments and communities run National Day for Truth and Reconciliation events.

Yes, we now live in a world where a key question is: how smoky will my weekend be? Here's our best forecast for Yellowknife.

An NWT minister said a lack of staff to help Yellowknifers shelter in place led to an evacuation by road and air. The mayor said that isn't "the whole picture."

The Union of Northern Workers unlawfully declared a strike among Hay River health workers earlier this month, the Canada Industrial Relations Board ruled.

"This is really changing quickly." A fundamental shift at the bottom of Great Slave Lake's food web almost certainly has implications for species at the top.

Tuktoyaktuk's senior administrator, Lucy Kuptana, said she plans to run for Nunakput MLA in this fall's territorial election.

While much of Enterprise burned in an August wildfire, the damage might have been even worse but for three people who spent days saving what they could.

The NWT's health minister said the removal of planters used as seating by Yellowknife's homeless community "penalizes and further marginalizes" people.

Northwestel says customers in the South Slave should expect more disruption on Friday as technicians try to repair another damaged fibre line.

NWT Premier Caroline Cochrane will use a half-hour meeting with Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre to discuss wildfires and infrastructure.

Planters that acted as public seating outside a Yellowknife post office were removed, a decision freighted with meaning for the city's vulnerable population.

Enterprise, the hamlet worst-hit by the NWT's wildfires, is ready to allow residents to return if their homes are safe. In practice, that's very few people.

The body representing NWT tourism interests urged restaurants hit by the summer's wildfires and evacuations to apply for a nationally offered $10,000 grant.

Internet and phone services were either slow or unavailable in some South Slave communities for part of Thursday after a fibre line was damaged.

More than two years after a woman died in RCMP custody in Tuktoyaktuk, the Public Prosecution Service of Canada said the evidence did not support any charges.

A 17-year-old in Yellowknife was charged with robbery, resisting arrest and assaulting an officer, police said, after attempting to steal cologne from a store.