Low water levels, a heavy snowpack in southern areas and thick river ice are painting a mixed – but overall, normal – picture for coming spring melt in the NWT.
Beaufort Delta
The major military projects getting under way in Yellowknife and Inuvik are similar, but not identical. The Inuvik military footprint is set to expand 15-fold.
The IRC announced beneficiaries will each receive $1,706 on May 1 after Inuvialuit companies posted record earnings for the past financial year.
Inuvik's Great Northern Arts Festival is working to fill a significant funding gap after applications to the Canada Council for the Arts were denied this year.
Thirteen Inuvik teachers are being laid off and other staff are affected in unusually severe cuts primarily attributed to Jordan's Principle changes.
The Nihtat Gwich’in Council is receiving federal funding worth $1.5 million to help its members prepare to make the most of coming military spending.
