Ottawa introduces new benefit with CRB about to end

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.

The Nahɂą Dehé Dene Band, Dehcho Divisional Education Council, Nahanni Butte District Education Authority and the territorial government just announced that a new Charles Yohin School is in the works. A plan is in place to look at cost comparisons for either renovating the existing school or building a new one.