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Highway 1 is closed to drivers as of Wednesday morning and the Edzo-Rae Ice Road will see a planned seasonal closure this afternoon. The planned closure was announced earlier this week and is part of seasonal changes that will also see the Dettah Ice Road close later this month.

RCMP in the Northwest Territories is working to modernize officer uniforms with a new navy-blue uniform shirt.  

Francophonie month is ushering in April with a much-anticipated poetic trail, as Festival de poésie arctique Mots dans la taïga at École Allain St-Cyr returns to Yellowknife. “We tried to put some seeds of magic in the Taiga,” says André Beaupré.

The Tłı̨chǫ Government has announced the creation of the Tłı̨chǫ Giant Minds Scholarship Program.

Premier R.J. Simpson spoke today in celebration of this year’s Trans Day of Visibility. 

A new representative from Northern and Western Canada is poised to become the next member of Canada’s highest court. The process to select the next judge of the Supreme Court of Canada has begun as Justice Sheilah L. Martin prepares for retirement.

The NWT Shelter Network, a circle of grassroots advocates and local leaders, has just launched a pan territorial family violence resources and training hub. The network is made up of leaders from each of the five family violence shelters in the territory. The NWT Shelter Network is part of the Pan-territorial Shelter Network that includes shelters from the Yukon, Nunavut along with the N.W.T.

Town Hall meetings with the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces are being planned for the city of Yellowknife and the town of Inuvik this month. Strategic Infrastructure Minister and Deputy Premier Caroline Wawzonek says the meetings are focused on  dual-use infrastructure defence investments, including the "modernization" of the North American Aerospace Defence Command.

Hay River RCMP has taken a suspect into custody following a reported firearm incident last week.