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Featured, Housing, News, Reconciliation March 11, 2025

A safe, stable place to stay for those returning from Southern recovery centres

Long-awaited transitional housing pilot program for addictions recovery in the NWT will take first residents in April


“We can restore and bring back our humanness, based on our principles and our values.” — Łutsel K’e Elder Felix Lockhart A longstanding missing piece of the addictions recovery puzzle in the Northwest Territories has been found in the shape of a two-storey house in Yellowknife’s Forrest Drive neighbourhood. This…

Denedeh Sunrise, Featured, News March 11, 2025

Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen visits the Northwest Territories

Hansen's mission patch for moon orbit was created by a Manitoba Indigenous artist


Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen will land in the Northwest Territories this week to visit schools in Dettah, Ndılǫ, Łútsël K’é and Yellowknife. The astronaut, fighter pilot, physicist and former aquanaut is the first Canadian astronaut on a lunar mission, joining a crew to orbit the moon in 2026. Hansen’s mission patch…

Featured, News, Police March 7, 2025

UPDATED: Overnight violence strikes Fort Smith; second similar incident in less than a month

Possible shots fired and house fire prompt warning early this morning from Fort Smith Protective Services


Fort Smith Protective Services issued a warning early this morning for residents to avoid the area of Field Street and Cassette Crescent after another violent incident in the border community involving gunplay and a fire. Fort Smith RCMP on Friday afternoon stated the incident was at 4:28 a.m. with the report…

Education, Featured, News, Politics March 7, 2025

Problems, solutions emerge in hearing on closure of 19 Community Learning Centres

'For the past 10 to 15, years, (the) Centres have become increasingly problematic, with low enrolment, high costs,' says Aurora College President Angela James


Aurora College President Angela James might not want to visit Fort Good Hope anytime soon after a remark she made about the closing of Community Learning Centres caught the ear of two MLAs at a hearing Thursday morning. James was justifying the abrubt closure of 19 Community Learning Centres across…

Community, Featured, News March 6, 2025

Feds commit $7.4M to expand school food programs in the NWT

Funding aims to ease financial strain on families as grocery prices rise


The federal government is investing $7.4 million to support school food programs across the Northwest Territories, aiming to improve student nutrition and help offset rising grocery costs for families. The funding, supplemented by an additional $1.95 million from the GNWT, will benefit 8,615 children in all 49 schools across the…

Featured, News, Politics March 5, 2025

Low vaccination rates put most vulnerable people at serious risk, says NWT Health Minister

‘Addressing vaccine hesitancy in Indigenous communities … requires building trust through culturally safe care and meaningful engagement,’ says Lesa Semmler


Vaccine hesitancy and online misinformation are weakening trust in the science, leaving residents — especially elders and children — vulnerable to preventable diseases, says Health Minister Lesa Semmler. Measles vaccination rates amongst two-year-olds have dropped from nearly 90-per-cent in 2019 to just over 82-per-cent in 2024 — well below the…

Featured, News, Politics March 4, 2025

American liquor purchases frozen, as GNWT does what it can in Trump Trade War

'It might be a difficult few years for us, but I know that we're going to stay united and we're going to resist,' says Premier R.J. Simpson


Take a hike Jack and Jim — that’s Daniels and Beam, respectively — as American-made alcohol products will no longer be purchased by the NWT Liquor and Cannabis Commission. That’s one of the only direct moves the NWT can take at present to protest United States President Donald Trump’s 25-per-cent…