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Live training exercise at Airport

Yellowknife broke three single-day heat records in four days last week during what Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) is calling an unseasonably warm summer for both the territory and the country.

Foot care in Yellowknife clients’ homes is another health service that will be reduced due to a shortage of staff.

Rob Warburton has announced that he will be running for Yellowknife City Council during the fall election, asserting that the municipality has the authority to make more meaningful changes to benefit residents.

A fire broke out on Tuesday morning at an abandoned building formerly occupied by a longstanding Yellowknife business.

Despite outbreaks of monkeypox appearing across the country, there are still no confirmed cases of the virus in the NWT, according to a spokesperson with the Department of Health and Social Services (HSS).

Gail Cyr moved to Yellowknife in May 1974. She is originally from Nelson House, Man., where she was one of seven siblings all fostered out. After arriving in the North, Cyr took a job as a coordinator with the Indian Brotherhood of the NWT – now the Dene Nation – before becoming the first executive director of the NWT Native Court Workers’ Association. In 1984, she was elected to Yellowknife City Council, where she served for 10 years.

More than two years after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Yellowknifers are still hard-pressed to find rapid Covid-19 tests in local pharmacies.

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Sandra MacKenzie is the new president of the Yellowknife Chamber of Commerce as of Aug. 23.