Northwest Territories News

Wekweètì joined Gamètì in voicing deep concern about a perceived drop in policing standards for communities with no detachment. RCMP defended their approach.

Etsy is banning natural fur products effective August 11. The NWT government and Fur Institute of Canada worry what that will mean for artisans and harvesters.

A hearing will determine whether blood samples should be excluded as evidence from an NWT impaired driving causing death case due to a Charter breach.

A woman convicted of assaulting another woman in Yellowknife in 2024 has been given a 12-month suspended sentence.

Continued cool weather and snow cover in the western NWT could push back the start of the territory’s 2026 wildfire season, forecasters say.

Chief Julius School in Fort McPherson is the latest to report concerns about lead in the facility's water. Ndılǫ's community learning centre got the all-clear.

Northern nurses now have a regulator and a separate advocacy group after one organization that filled both roles split into two this month.

The City of Yellowknife will double the cost of parking at downtown one-hour and two-hour meters starting May 1. Nickels are also on borrowed dime – uh, time.

A committee that ran Hay River's library is dissolving and staff funding is changing. The town says it's "actively working to ensure these services continue."

Imperial Oil's looming departure means a huge tax revenue loss for the Town of Norman Wells. Local leaders have to decide which programs and services must go.

We spoke with an NWT Guardians program potentially affected by a massive fraud lawsuit at a national non-profit as the allegations being made became clearer.

Yellowknife city councillors unanimously voted in favour of a motion calling on the federal government to adopt a proportional representation electoral system.

Forced to foot large hotel bills just to give students somewhere to stay, Hay River's Western Arctic Marine Training Centre is proposing a longer-term solution.

City council just had its first chance to examine Yellowknife's draft community plan, which will govern the next 25 years of development. Here's the feedback.

RCMP in Yellowknife say they are trying to find a 16-year-old from Behchokǫ̀ last seen on April 11 in the territorial capital.

We know about the billions being promised in northern defence spending. But what's the justification and what are the actual threats? Here's one expert's view.

We asked you to help us find the Snowking Cup, a Yellowknife pond hockey trophy that vanished. Would you believe it? We found the thing. Kind of.

As part of broader shifts in the fishing sector, a change is likely soon in how Hay River's new fish plant is run. We asked the GNWT how it's figuring that out.

The Mining Association of Canada's outgoing vice-president of communications will become the NWT and Nunavut Chamber of Mines' new chief executive officer.

An EV charging station in Fort Providence has been out of service for months, vexing drivers on big trips. Engineers are about to try to bring it back online.