Northwest Territories News

New business North Volleyball will offer training camps and skill clinics as well as a service that connects NWT athletes with university opportunities.

WSCC says it is investing around $1 million this year in initiatives "to help reduce work-related injuries and illnesses" across the NWT and Nunavut.

Tickets are now available for the latest Snowkings' Winter Festival reverse raffle, in which the last ticket-holder standing wins the $5,000 grand prize.

The City of Yellowknife has opened the application process for its 2026 community grants and heritage committee grants.

"The North is where my home is." Hélèna Katz's new book, Dispatches from Canada's North, features more than 40 stories about the NWT.

NWT RCMP say an officer has been charged with sexually assaulting someone while off duty in the Yellowknife area. Calgary police handled the investigation.

The Salvation Army and Northwestel launched their annual toy drive on Friday with a target of helping hundreds of NWT children receive toys this Christmas. New toys, unwrapped, can be donated at the Salvation Army or Northwestel’s Yellowknife retail store until December 9. (The same initiative also operates in Whitehorse.) “I grew up being the recipient of these toys – in a different province, but through the Salvation Army,” said Tony Brushett, who is now the executive director of the […]

The NWT's chief public health officer issued a new warning after a sample of Hay River crack cocaine was shown to contain intensely powerful opioids.

The first new federal housing design catalogue in decades is out, with North-specific options. Here's what that means, how it can help and what the hurdles are.

On the back of concern about the Mackenzie Valley Winter Road being unlicensed, the Sahtu Secretariat said the GNWT should let someone else enforce the rules.

A safe room at Fort Smith's health centre is still awaiting urgent repair work, the town says, and its condition is having a "serious impact" on the community.

The Inuit Circumpolar Council is calling on countries to "maintain persistent and stable" climate actions while upholding Indigenous rights at COP30.

The NWT was absent from Mark Carney's latest list of major projects to be advanced, but the territory said its wishlist nevertheless has "strong momentum."

RCMP have charged a 27 year old man with possessing a prohibited firearm in connection with videos posted to Instagram that featured firearms.

Police in Hay River say they have charged an Alberta man after "seizing quantities of suspected cocaine and carfentanil during a traffic stop."

The president of Gahcho Kué part-owner Mountain Province Diamonds will step down after the firm reported a $128-million loss for the first nine months of 2025.

The GNWT hasn't held the right licences to build the annual Mackenzie Valley Winter Road for 10 years, regulators said, demanding action from the premier.

Production at Mon Mine, 45 miles north of Yellowknife, could restart in 2026. A gold processing mill will be delivered by winter road, the mine owner says.

Yellowknife's annual shop-local initiative is back for 2025 with 39 participating businesses. Shop at them and you could win up to $2,000 in gift cards.

The City of Yellowknife says two community workshops later in November – one at City Hall, one in Dettah – will explore the future of gold mining in the area.