Ollie Williams

A non-profit set up to promote routes into the media industry for northerners is closing after five years as funding has run out.

A remotely operated bulldozer sank in mud-like material at Diavik. It could stay there forever as the mine says retrieving it isn’t “safe or practical.”

Wrigley residents are told to boil drinking water for at least a minute after the community’s water treatment system had a “critical mechanical failure.”

Parts of the Beaufort Delta and Sahtu are set to emerge from a bitter spell of -40C weather this week, while other areas could see temperatures above freezing.

A bonfire and fireworks designed to welcome the sun back to Inuvik after a month’s absence won’t go ahead as planned because of the extreme cold weather.

Under a new system, Environment Canada issued one of its first orange warnings for extreme cold in the NWT. The Sahtu faces sustained -55 wind chill values.

If you want information from the GNWT and can’t find another way, you can file an access to information request. But responses can take time and persistence.

RCMP say the car driven into Yellowknife’s Explorer Hotel hit four people and the driver, a 60-year-old, was impaired. Nobody was reported seriously hurt.

An NWT engineering and geoscience foundation has awarded 25 $2,000 grants to northern students, calling it the largest scholarship cohort to date.

Many NWT winter roads from the Sahtu to Dettah are on track to open by Christmas. “Worrisome” early warmth gave way to ideal ice conditions in some regions.