Yellowknifer

Residents of Yellowknife and Whitehorse have a new and faster way to connect to Canada’s largest city with the inauguration of Air North’s Whitehorse, Yellowknife to Toronto flight.

It’s a good thing the Mother’s Day Run happened in the morning because, well, who would have wanted to run it in the afternoon on Sunday?

All residents in Déline are being asked to boil their drinking water for at least one minute, according to an advisement by the Chief Environmental Health Officer

Caroline Cochrane, Premier of the Northwest Territories, Nunavut Premier P.J. Akeeagok, and Yukon Premier Sandy Silver, as well as Northern Indigenous Leaders issued the first Pan-Northern Leaders’ Statement on Climate Change.

Extended conversations between the City of Yellowknife and the Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) regarding the ongoing flood have resulted in the City potentially playing a bigger role to help out community members in Hay River.

The Government of Canada has pledged $200,000 a year over three years to the Dene Nation to “advance community housing solutions.”

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.

A Norman Wells woman is wanted in connection with the attempted murder of man in Yellowknife.

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