Yellowknifer

Members of Yellowknife’s City Council voted unanimously to take ownership of the first of three unoccupied parcels of Commissioner’s lands within municipal boundaries, Sept. 13.

Almost 50 GNWT employees stepped up to volunteer at isolation facilities in Yellowknife amid the current COVID-19 outbreak among the street-involved population, Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek said on Sept. 11.

The Tłı̨chǫ Grand Chief Election has been postponed until Nov. 18, 2021 due to the COVID-19 outbreak in the region, registrar Gabrielle Mackenzie-Scott said.

Ongoing pandemic concerns have forced an early end to the farmers market season in Yellowknife.

Łutsel Kʼe had its first case of coronavirus and an Air Tindi flight on Sept. 8 from Yellowknife to the South Slave community is listed as a public exposure location.

I know the doctors are rather busy at the moment, fighting the COVID-19 pandemic and all, but I think some researcher somewhere should look into the plague of electionitis that seems to be sweeping across the land.

One of the most impressive things over the past few years — at least to me — is the amount of young hockey players who have been given the chance to head south and get a shot.

Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Kami Kandola has issued a 14-day containment order for Whatì after 10 probable or confirmed cases of COVID-19 were found in the community, Kandola said in a news release on Sept. 11.

All services at the Combined Day and Sobering Centre in Yellowknife are suspended until further notice, the NWT Health and Social Services Authority (NTHSSA) said in a news release on Sept. 11.

One researcher from Aurora College, Mike Palmer, has been involved in research about how sunlight transforms toxic arsenic found in groundwater into a less-toxic form.