News

Flags are at half-mast at the Legislative Assembly in honor of former Member of the Legislative Assembly Ernie Bernhardt who recently passed away.

The Thebacha Leadership Council has signed an Agreement in Principle with the Northern Life Museum & Cultural Centre to create a framework for the Council to assume future ownership and stewardship over the Fort Smith museum.

Communities are preparing for the Indigenous Peoples Day celebrations taking over N.W.T. this weekend. These are just some of the festivities taking place across the territory making room for more Indigenous culture and shared spaces of immemorial traditions

Erwin Elias, Chair and CEO of the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation and Minister Lucy Kuptana have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to guide joint work on housing in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region.

Yellowknife officials plan to test the Voyent Alert! emergency notification system Friday morning. The city is testing the effectiveness of the app in delivering critical information to registered users.

Northern Mosaic Performing Arts Camp is drawing emerging young artists together to make room onstage and offstage for Queer Justice through the power of music, art and spoken word. The camp helps provide not only a safe environment where 2SLGBTQIA+ youth can thrive, but also helps them build the skills to continue creating those much needed spaces.

Aurora College has been selected among among five other organizations in the country to lead research and raise awareness about climate change and its impacts on health. The Public Health Agency of Canada’s Infectious Disease and Climate Change is planning to fund the five community-driven initiatives that combine Indigenous knowledges and other scientific forms.

Yesterday, the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation celebrated the soft opening of the new Transitional Housing and Recovery Program home in Inuvik. 

The N.W.T. Power Corporation is planning a number of power outages this weekend, with four separate outages taking place in the Hay River area and two in Tuktoyaktuk.