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All properties along the Hay River were given a precautionary evacuation alert on Sunday due to increasing risk of flooding.

Residents of Paradise Gardens have been ordered to evacuate due to flood risk, according to a Sunday notice from the Town of Hay River.

Electricity in Hay River and the K’atlodeeche Reserve went out just before midnight on Sunday but was restored within an hour.

Miranda Currie is continuing the trend of a now-buzzing Northwest Territories music scene as she will be performing at the Northern Arts and Cultural Centre on May 15 to promote the release of her new kids album.

The NWT’s Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment (ITI) hopes a new fish processing plant and some new winter fisheries, among other things, will open up new opportunities for harvesters in the NWT — although at least one MLA says it’s federal red tape, and not a lack of supply or demand, keeping Northern fishers out of Southern markets.

K’atlodeeche First Nation saw some of the worst of spring break-up over the weekend as flooding forced the entire band to evacuate, May, 8.

Vale Island residents were ordered to evacuate on Sunday as ice blocks continued through town and water levels remained extremely high.

West Channel and Vale Island residents were heading into Saturday evening under an evacuation order from earlier in the morning in response to large chunks of ice drifting through town.

Hilah McCauley, a 19-year-old charged with shooting a young man on 53 Street in Yellowknife on May 1, has been arrested.

A Nunavut judge has returned a long-serving Coral Harbour councillor to municipal office and he chided the hamlet for its heavy-handed approach in removing him.