Victims of Simpson Air plane crash identified
The NWT Coroner Service has identified the three victims of last week's fatal Simpson Air plane crash west of Fort Simpson.
The NWT Coroner Service has identified the three victims of last week's fatal Simpson Air plane crash west of Fort Simpson.
A team of two investigators arrived at a small lake west of Fort Simpson following a Simpson Air plane crash last Thursday evening which killed three people.
Three people have died in a plane crash involving a Simpson Air flight on Thursday.
A plane carrying four people crashed on take-off from Nahanni Butte's airfield early on Wednesday afternoon.
Parks Canada is asking for feedback on a new draft policy governing how river outfitters are licensed in the Nahanni and Nááts’ihch’oh National Park Reserves.
Extensive rain peppering the Northwest Territories over the past month has set the project back and funds are running low.
For the first time, Parks Canada helped facilitate a traditional ceremony to open the Nahanni National Park Reserve for the season.
Officials say they are no longer concerned by a wildfire south of Fort Liard as a band of rain sweeps into the region.
Officials expressed concern on Wednesday as conditions threatened to push a forest fire closer to Highway 7 and in the direction of Fort Liard's local dump.
Residents in Dehcho and South Slave communities have been told to take precautions as hot weather parks itself over the southern Northwest Territories.
Dehcho First Nations leader Herb Norwegian has received a $10,000 prize for his work to protect the region's boreal forests, wetlands, and watersheds.
Fort Simpson teacher Val Gendron has received the Sovereign's Medal for Volunteers from the Governor General in Ottawa.