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The City of Yellowknife is offering free transit service to the Old Town Ramble & Ride Festival beginning this evening at 5:15 pm.  

Five new fires were located in the territory according to the latest reports from NWT Fire. Moderate conditions are expected to continue, with some warming in the western portions of the territory, and colder conditions in the Sahtu and Beaufort Delta Regions expected to help manage fire activity.  

With the Wrigley evacuation order being downgraded to an alert as of July 29, the Northwest Territories Health and Social Services Authority has released their plans for reopening the Wrigley Health Centre. 

Old Town Glassworks is hosting a special evening of live music featuring renowned northern performers Tracy Riley, Vishwaa Ramakrishnan, Glen Whelan, Lee Mandeville and George Mandeville.

The Northwest Territories Power Corporation has released details about the causes of three power outages in Yellowknife over the past three days.  

The Indigenous Sports Circle NWT, Sport North Federation, and Air North are working together to launch the NWT Sport Travel Fare Program.

The evacuation order put in place for the community of Wrigley on June 29 has been downgraded to an Alert, effective as of 5:00 pm on Wednesday, July 29.  

Northern Metis Entrepreneur Natassia Hansen is taking charcuterie to a whole new level, her boards and boxes are literally flying off the shelves and could be taking Turtle Island by storm at this year’s Pow Wow Pitch. Taking charcuterie to the airport to fly to other Northern destinations like Nunavut means her business is growing, but Hansen said the heart of Oak & Olive will always at home with Yellowknifers.

The Northwest Territories Health and Social Services Authority has announced that full health and social services have resumed in Fort Simpson, with the final stage of reopening completed yesterday with the return of long-term care residents who had been evacuated to Yellowknife.