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After more than forty years of social innovation in older adult living and care AVENS was recognized with a special honour at the national volunteer awards for 2025. The organization has spent nearly half a century championing “aging in place” rights and access for older adults in the North. "We’re unique in the North and in Yellowknife to be able to provide that degree and variety of service and really focus on our mission, which is allowing seniors to age in place," said Colleen Wellborn

The Northwest Territories department of Infrastructure has just closed the Dettah Ice Road for the season.

The federal government says they are committing $4-billion for Indigenous housing in urban, rural and northern communities. The announcement was made in Behchokǫ̀ on Friday. The multi billion dollar plan, dubbed the Urban, Rural and Northern Indigenous Housing Strategy, intends to balance Indigenous-led funding agreements and open, project-based funding for Indigenous housing projects.

NorthWords NWT has released the schedule and visiting authors for their 2026 Writer’s Festival.

Alberta has taken the first step toward ending seasonal clock changes.

Scientists with GNWT’s Environment and Climate Change centre say water levels are low across most of the territory but above-average snowpack in the Slave and Liard river basins, combined with a delayed spring melt, could result in near-normal spring flows. Scientists advised weather in the weeks ahead will plays a key role in the possibility of flooding. 

The Government of the Northwest Territories, the Union of Northern Workers, the Public Service Alliance of Canada, and the Hay River Health and Social Services Authority have reached an agreement on the migration of HRHSSA members to the public service.

The Northwest Territories department of Infrastructure has issued a closure caution for the Dettah Ice Road, for an anticipated Friday closure. According to the message posted on Wednesday on social media and the Drive NWT website, the road “may occur earlier as conditions continue to deteriorate.”

Minister Rebecca Alty was a part of the Canadian delegation at the 25th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues which began this past Monday.