Expect delays on the Dettah ice road for YK’s Dog Derby

PM Mark Carney committed $90 million into the Wood Buffalo National Park and wood bison recovery. This is part of $3.8 B strategy” to “protect and restore” habitats and find ways for industrial strategies to “complement” conservation announced Tuesday. Indigenous and local leaders have been calling on the feds and provincial and territorial governments to take more measures to clean up industrial wastes of the region including the Peace-Athabasca waterways of Treaty 8.

Testing shows that another school in the city of Yellowknife has elevated levels of lead and testing also confirmed elevated levels of copper present in water from some of its drinking taps. With 33 tested school site results announced to date, 27 have tested positive for elevated levels of lead in some of their drinking water fixtures. Of the school test results announced to date, Sir John Franklin High School is the first school with elevated copper in water.

Housing NWT has implemented a smoke-free policy in all Housing NWT owned-and-operated units, including social housing, starting on April 1.

Police in Fort Smith are seeking the assistance of the public in locating an Indigenous man who was reported missing and was last seen on Sunday.

The Northwest Territories is updating its Fire Danger system to better align with the systems used by other Canadian agencies.