Hay River Hub

As the Town of Hay River and the K’atl’odeeche First Nation overcome the two-week gathering and containment orders, the Hay River Health and Social Services Authority is marking significant progress made in ensuring residents were properly cared for.

Senior citizens face some of the most difficult cost of living challenges in the territory while living on fixed incomes but few may consider that they often put their pets ahead of themselves.

More than a dozen residents turned out for a rally opposing mandatory vaccines at the Hay River Northmart, Nov. 6.

The Hay River Centennial Library launched its annual Christmas Book Appeal fundraiser on Oct. 29 in hopes of keeping the community well read with latest literary works.

The Office of the Chief Public Health Officer is planning to shorten by a week the extended gathering and containment orders in the Town of Hay River and the K’atl’odeeche First Nation.

The first major step in finding out how much the Government of the Northwest Territories will benefit from the new Nechalacho rare earths mine was completed last week as department officials took mineral samples of 501 bags of the first mined ore.

The Covid-19 containment order on the Kátł’odeeche First Nation attempted to put a damper on Halloween spirits over the weekend as children were not allowed to go trick-or-treating.

The gathering restrictions to the Town of Hay River and the K’atl’odeeche First Nation Reserve Lands (Hay River Reserve) has been extended to Nov. 14.

Star Wars characters, Captains Morgan, Sesame Street muppets and hundreds of others showed up for a Halloween parade held in honour of longtime town resident Linda Carter Halloween evening, Oct. 31.