Election day in Tlicho communities

Crews report they have made progress containing the wildfire on the northeastern side of Wood Buffalo near the Whooping Crane nesting area. Bucketing helicopters were used to try to contain the fire along its north and south borders. The wildfire, located about 21 kilometres northeast of Highway 5, was last estimated at about 53,124 hectares

The Government of the Northwest Territories has signed a new two-year Non-Insured Health Benefits agreement with Indigenous Services Canada to ensure short-term funding stability for these benefits.

The N.W.T.’s Power Corporation plans to replace 74 hydro poles this year, all of which are located in the town of Hay River. Poles due for replacement include those in the area of Ptarmigan and Robin where a set of extended unplanned outages happened last month. To begin what the company reported is “critical maintenance work,” they are planning a power outage for this weekend.

The Government of the Northwest Territories has introduced a new Encampment Response Framework to help guide the response to encampments in Yellowknife.  

The Northwest Territories Power Corporation has announced a number of planned outages that will occur in several communities around the territory over the next week.