Ethan Montague

The City of Yellowknife is alerting residents that some buildings and services in the city will have altered hours or be closed entirely this upcoming Monday for the Civic Holiday.

Planned ignitions operations at wildfire FS015, north of Wrigley and Hodgson Creek, have brought the fire up to an older fire break across the Hodgson Bridge. 

Environment Canada says heavy rains have passed for the Paulatuk region, after nearly 70 mm fell in a two-day period beginning Friday. That’s normally what the region would receive in total for the duration of the summer season and more than one third of its total precipitation per year on average.

The Evacuation Alert for Fort Simpson has officially been lifted as of 3:00 pm on July 24. The Evacuation Order was initially put into place on June 28 and later downgraded to an Alert on July 18

With Indigenous Northerners being at the front lines of climate change and experiencing gross gaps in health care equity despite composing more than half of the population, leaders with the National Council for Reconciliation say Northern issues are a “chief” focus of their inaugural report. The document is regarded as the first legislated independent assessment of progress in response to the Calls to Action and identification of persistent systemic barriers.