Yellowknife firefighters and RCMP responded to a fire at a homeless encampment in the city Wednesday afternoon. Yellowknife's fire chief said that while they haven't yet determined a cause, they believe the fire is related to a person's efforts to keep warm. He said it doesn't appear to have been started intentionally.
While Indigenous leaders and workers absorb the shock of this week's layoffs, industry observers say the scaling back of production at Ekati is a reflection of challenges facing the diamond industry.
Burgundy Diamond Mines says it’s laid off some of its employees and contractors and has temporarily stopped open pit mining at Point Lake — one of its two active operations at the Ekati Diamond Mine.
Northwest Territories voters chose to shake things up this election, with 7 incumbents losing their seats and 9 new faces elected. With three MLAs-elect returning after a hiatus, nine of 19 MLAs-elect are brand new.
The high cost of living in the N.W.T. is a perennial issue. Twenty-one territorial election candidates told CBC it’s one of the biggest challenges facing people in their regions right now.
As candidates in the N.W.T. general election began canvassing this week, business advocates expressed their concerns and offered ideas for how to improve the territory’s wilting economy.
Despite this summer’s wildfire emergencies, and recent years’ devastating floods and the COVID-19 pandemic, there are at least 30 people who have said they’re keen to lead the territory through any future crisis as MLAs.
Scott Enloe's catch in Colorado poses a challenge to the record set by angler Lloyd Bull, who pulled a 32.6-kilogram lake trout from the waters of Northwest Territories’ Great Bear Lake in 1995.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is holding hearings in Whitehorse this week to explore ways to improve internet in Northern Canada.
The unions representing striking City of Yellowknife employees say a return-to-work agreement has been finalized, and the bargaining team endorses the tentative deal. Voting is happening Friday.
Yellowknife city council gave first reading to a bylaw that would finalize a new collective agreement with striking city workers, but second and third reading can’t happen until the union members vote on the tentative agreement — and that hasn’t happened yet.