Around three-quarters of Tsiigehtchic voters have endorsed the community's switch from charter status to a hamlet. The change is expected by August.
Tsiigehtchic
Water levels on the Peel and Arctic Red rivers could reach their highest on record this breakup season, the GNWT says. Watch for sudden shifts from Sunday on.
With the only road into Tsiigehtchic blocked, the Speaker of the House fired up his snowmobile to give the NWT's official mace an unusually dramatic entrance.
Tsiigehtchic appears set to change from a charter community to a hamlet, a process some members of the community have pursued for years.
Tsiigehtchic plans to bring in an engineer later this year to provide advice on how to deal with erosion affecting its cemetery.
How do you protect the dead when graveyards are at risk in a changing Arctic? Northern Canada's communities are confronting a sensitive question.
