This season’s barge delivery to Sachs Harbour has been cancelled. The GNWT announced the cancellation of the shipment late Friday afternoon. “A culmination of bad weather and a late start to the season – due to climate change, delayed buoy placement, and flooding in both Inuvik and Hay River –…
Updated Monday, Oct. 17 at 11:45 a.m. Déline’s boil water advisory has been lifted. The Department of Health and Social Services announced the lifting of the ban on Monday. The community and Chief Environment Health Officer determined the water’s turbidity, or clarity, had returned to normal since the advisory…
The federal government is committing more than $500,000 in the Northwest Territories to help residents make their homes more energy efficient and ultimately lead to the creation of more jobs. Member of Parliament for the Northwest Territories, Michael McLeod, says the government is giving nearly $683,000 to Fort Providence-based Gonezu…
Lisa Boivin was taken from her home community of Deninu Kųę́ when she was a baby. Nearly 40 years later, she reconnected with her father Bill Norn. Prior to his passing in 2016, Boivin says they spoke often of the meaning of their dreams. Boivin leaned on her father’s teachings…
Updated 10:15 a.m. Oct. 11. Police say a community-led search party has found the body of a Fort Resolution man who fell into the Slave River last week. The RCMP announced on Tuesday the body of 42-year-old George Giroux was found by a community search party on Oct. 8….
Dozens took to the streets of Ndilo and Yellowknife on Tuesday to mark the National Day of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls on Tuesday. The march began at the Ndilo gym and continued all the way to Yellowknife’s Northern United Place, where there was a sharing…
An active wildfire has claimed a cabin to the northeast of Fort Smith. According to Mike Westwick, spokesperson for NWT Fire, the cabin’s owner has been notified. Crews flew over the area on Monday and saw the remnants of the cabin. “This was due to a combination of extreme winds…
The Nahʔą Dehé Dene Band in Nahanni Butte has a new on-the-land guardianship program in the works. The Nahʔą Dehé K’ehodi program is part of a recent agreement between the band, Dehcho First Nations and Parks Canada to advance the co-management of Nahanni National Park Reserve. According to Soham Srimani,…
Tuktoyaktuk artist Brian Kowikchuk has just finished his biggest mural project to date. He created a pair of murals, inspired by the mother of sea creatures, the Inuit legend of Sedna, Nuliayuk or Taluliyuk. The murals are called Ancestral Blessings and it highlights the interworkings of the spiritual and material worlds….
Communities across the country are marking the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation this Friday, including many communities across the Northwest Territories. Here’s just some of what’s happening across the NWT this Friday: Aklavik In Aklavik, activities will start at 1:00 p.m. with a walk from Mission grounds to…