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City councillors recommend more services and enforcement at Yellowknife encampment
A resolution recommends that the territory ensure there is access to basic needs, such as porta-potties, potable water and other necessities. It commits to providing solid waste and sewage collection, but it said that would have to be at the request of the N.W.T. government and on its dime.
'Colonial mindset' preventing return of child's remains to her community, says N.W.T. MLA
Some N.W.T. MLAs pressed the territory's culture minister on Thursday to waive legislation that they say is holding up efforts to return a deceased child's remains to her home community.
Health care, wildfire report in spotlight as N.W.T. MLAs begin 7-day spring sitting
Northwest Territories MLAs return to the legislature on Wednesday to begin the spring sitting. Members say health care has been a major concern for their constituents.
Gold ulu heads to Hockey Hall of Fame to mark Nunavut's historic Arctic Winter Games win
Nunavut had its first-ever hockey win at the Arctic Winter Games in 2023. Now, a medal from that game will be displayed at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, to commemorate the historic win.
N.W.T. gov't had a plan for 2023 wildfires but staff didn't know about it
During the 2023 wildfires, the government of the Northwest Territories used its 2018 emergency plan — and, according to a consulting firm tasked with reviewing the territory's emergency response, that plan should have worked. The problem? Very few people knew about it.
N.W.T. MP Rebecca Alty in cabinet should make 'big difference,' some northerners say
N.W.T. MP Rebecca Alty is now the minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, while Nunavik MP Mandy Gull-Masty is the new minister of Indigenous Services.
Residents in Mark Carney's N.W.T. hometown send care package of local goods to the new PM
A care package with goods from the prime minister's hometown of Fort Smith, N.W.T., is on its way to Ottawa — and the woman who put it together just hopes it'll make him smile.
N.W.T. premier supports minister amid criticisms of territory's health care
The premier of the Northwest Territories is re-affirming support for his health minister after a group of three MLAs accused the health minister of not taking her role seriously and threatened to oust her from the job.
Ben Hendriksen appointed Yellowknife mayor for remaining 1.5-year term
Yellowknife city council opted to appoint Hendriksen to fill the seat left vacant by newly-elected MP Rebecca Alty. Councillors Garrett Cochrane and Stacie Arden-Smith also put their names forward for the job.
Here's what each major party is promising for the North
Arctic security, reconciliation, housing and food supply are all discussed to varying degrees in party platforms