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“The North is a rough country to be in. If you're not prepared to go out in the bush, my advice would be stay home because if things go sideways, one bad thing multiplies and multiplies until you're in serious, serious trouble. And this is just somebody out for a dog walk,” says Tom Girrior, an instructor and volunteer search co-ordinator with Yellowknife Search and Rescue.

The Government of the Northwest Territories and the City of Yellowknife are working to advance a feasibility study to determine if the territory should pursue a bid to host the 2035 Canada Winter Games.

The Northwest Territories department of Infrastructure has issued more seasonal road closure cautions for winter roads in the last days of April. Today a 72-hour closure caution was issued for the Aklavik Access Road but officials warned the road “may close sooner with little to no notice.”

The Tłı̨chǫ̨ Government says they plan to form a joint venture with Fortune Minerals Limited towards the construction of a proposed access road for the NICO critical minerals project.The Tłı̨chǫ̨ Government and the mineral company say they are pursuing project funding through the Critical Minerals Infrastructure Fund’s clean energy and transportation infrastructure program.

Five new modular housing units have arrived in Behchokǫ̀ for onsite assembly, the final phase of construction before the homes are ready for occupants.

A ceremony in Yellowknife remembering those who lost their lives on the job drew calls to action in an ongoing struggle for stronger workers’ safety protections in the North and across the country. It’s been more than four decades since the first National Day of Mourning. And its been over one century since the first workers compensation act in Canada received its third reading. Statistics show that each year about 1,000 people across the country do not come home from work.

Yellowknife’s annual Red Dress March will be taking place next week on May 5 starting at 12:00 pm.

The Yellowknife Community Foundation has cracked the door wide open on its student awards scholarships fund. The foundation says its scholarship fund is delivering 45 scholarships, its greatest number of scholarships to date, to support students in trade professions and academics across the territory. N.W.T. students pursuing post-secondary studies or a trades education in any field are eligible for scholarships worth up to $9, 500, with a total of 45 scholarships are being offered.

N.W.T. holds among highest rates of workplace fatalities proportionate to worker populations. Researchers from the University of Regina said N.W.T. and Nunavut's worker mortality rate between 2019 to 2023 was highest in the country. The latest records show that for 2024, 11 people died due to a work related incident in the territories of the North. Scientists noted that because of N.W.T.’s small community populations, one or more early deaths had a much greater impact on mortality rates.