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GNWT officials are asking drivers to stop speeding on Highway 1, as they are putting firefighters lives at risk.

Highway 1 is back open this morning after being closed earlier today due to heave smoke.

The rain seen in Hay River was good, but drier conditions are taking over and that’s not good news for the wildfire in the area.

Norman Wells and Tulita will not get their third barge this year due to dangerously low water levels on the Mackenzie River.

Yellowknife’s Sobering Centre and Day Shelter are open and offering full services, just two days after NWT Wildfire evacuees were let back into the city.

A lone repatriation flight has left Winnipeg carrying Yellowknife evacuees home, but the GNWT can’t say for certain how many residents were on it yet.

Northwest Territories Power Corporation has received approval to re-energize Fort Smith and the surrounding communities that have spent weeks in the dark.

Hay River Town Council has released the community’s re-entry plan, sans dates.

Officials from the GNWT are telling evacuees in Calgary to head to the Radisson Hotel as soon as possible to be flown back to Yellowknife.

Our month-long throwback to 1990s dial-up speeds in the Beaufort Delta is over — Northern Lights GP has confirmed repairs on the Mackenzie Valley Fibre Link have finally been completed.