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Existing fire bans for all public and private lands in the North Slave and South Slave regions have been extended until Aug. 18 due to continued extreme wildfire danger and extraordinary weather conditions, the GNWT’s Department of Environment and Climate Change (ECC) stated on Friday afternoon.

The Fort Providence RCMP received a complaint from a member of the public on Aug. 9 that a suspected drug dealer was hiding out at a property in the hamlet.

As a child, I had an obsession with dinosaurs. I watched every special and flick I could find. When I finally got my library card at age eight, I was checking out books by the bagloads, learning about all things prehistoric.

UPDATE 2: As of 6:30 p.m. Aug. 11, ENR now says the fire is 12 kilometres away. “Four fire crews are actioning this fire, including air support for bucketing. Heavy equipment has started developing a fire guard that will protect the northwest end of Inuvik, where the liquid natural gas storage site for Inuvik Gas is located. Helicopters are bucking the fire, and tanker groups are actioning it as well as visibility has improved.”

In a first-of its-kind agreement, the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation, the NWT and Yukon governments and the federal government have arranged to collectively share in decision-making in regards to offshore oil exploration.

Give Josee Clermont two wheels and an open road and away she goes on a world-class adventure.

Blasting will be ongoing near the Yellowknife Bay public boat launch at the Giant Mine site as of Friday, Aug. 11.

There is no slowing Titus Allooloo down.

Hay River Health and Social Services CEO Erin Griffiths expressed “disappointment” last week following a strike vote by health workers in July and warned that any potential job action could affect health services in the South Slave community.

This is the third installment in a multi-part series on the tourism sector in Nunavut post-pandemic.