Northwest Territories News

Yes, we now live in a world where a key question is: how smoky will my weekend be? Here's our best forecast for Yellowknife.

An NWT minister said a lack of staff to help Yellowknifers shelter in place led to an evacuation by road and air. The mayor said that isn't "the whole picture."

The Union of Northern Workers unlawfully declared a strike among Hay River health workers earlier this month, the Canada Industrial Relations Board ruled.

"This is really changing quickly." A fundamental shift at the bottom of Great Slave Lake's food web almost certainly has implications for species at the top.

Tuktoyaktuk's senior administrator, Lucy Kuptana, said she plans to run for Nunakput MLA in this fall's territorial election.

While much of Enterprise burned in an August wildfire, the damage might have been even worse but for three people who spent days saving what they could.

The NWT's health minister said the removal of planters used as seating by Yellowknife's homeless community "penalizes and further marginalizes" people.

Northwestel says customers in the South Slave should expect more disruption on Friday as technicians try to repair another damaged fibre line.

NWT Premier Caroline Cochrane will use a half-hour meeting with Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre to discuss wildfires and infrastructure.

Planters that acted as public seating outside a Yellowknife post office were removed, a decision freighted with meaning for the city's vulnerable population.

Enterprise, the hamlet worst-hit by the NWT's wildfires, is ready to allow residents to return if their homes are safe. In practice, that's very few people.

The body representing NWT tourism interests urged restaurants hit by the summer's wildfires and evacuations to apply for a nationally offered $10,000 grant.

Internet and phone services were either slow or unavailable in some South Slave communities for part of Thursday after a fibre line was damaged.

More than two years after a woman died in RCMP custody in Tuktoyaktuk, the Public Prosecution Service of Canada said the evidence did not support any charges.

A 17-year-old in Yellowknife was charged with robbery, resisting arrest and assaulting an officer, police said, after attempting to steal cologne from a store.

Hay River's health authority and a union are in a dispute that one expert says is without precedent after a strike was declared while the town was evacuated.

Wildfires released more carbon this year than the NWT's people would over centuries. You could be forgiven for losing hope. These people say you shouldn't.

When is the NWT's election? What are the different ways to vote? How do we get a new premier and cabinet after polling day? Here are some answers.

Yellowknife's Somba K'e Park will host a special welcome-home event on Saturday, the city said, while also launching a weekend-long shop-local campaign.

Dozens of people attended a Yellowknife support event for queer and trans youth on a day when heated rallies and counter-protests emerged elsewhere in Canada.