Yukon asks NWT residents for climate change feedback
The Yukon is finalizing a new strategy to combat climate change and make sure people are prepared. The territory wants to hear from the next-door neighbours. More »
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Drilling company wins more than $600K over Giant Mine arsenic delay
A legal fight between two contractors at Yellowknife's Giant Mine site ended with one receiving a $613,000 payout over delays related to arsenic contamination. More »
Man from Fort Smith agrees to help save world for $1
Mark Carney, the Fort Smith-born Bank of England governor, has been handed a new job at the United Nations designed to raise money for action on climate change. More »
Hopes high for youth employment in Sahtu's new protected area
A new protected area west of Fort Good Hope should mean more jobs for youth and other residents, too. Yet who manages the area, and how, remains to be agreed. More »
Fort Good Hope celebration makes Sahtu protected area a reality
Elders were the celebrities at Tuesday’s signing of an agreement which protects 10,000 square kilometres of Sahtu land from oil, gas, and mining interests. More »
Remote cameras snap playtime for NWT grizzlies
Motion-activated cameras captured a group of bears having the time of their lives at a scratching post. It's part of work tracking changes to the bears' lives. More »
Dinàgà Wek'èhodì, 'place of legends,' could be protected by 2020
A stretch of land and water bigger than Toronto – vital to the history, culture, and environment of the Tłı̨chǫ people – is on track to become a protected area. More »
Injured Fort Liard swan now being cared for in Burnaby, BC
A swan rescued by a Fort Liard resident after wandering, wounded, into the hamlet is reportedly now receiving treatment at a wildlife rescue centre in BC. More »
Inuvialuit hunters to help study plastic in polar bear stomachs
Hunters are being asked to help document how plastic is affecting NWT polar bears. Alaskan researchers found a quarter of bears had plastic in their stomachs. More »
Determined Fort Liard resident rescues injured swan
"She knocked over everything in the bedroom." A Fort Liard woman described taking in a swan with a damaged wing after it was left behind at a nearby lake. More »
Youth join crew of NWT research vessel rescued from scrap
A ship decommissioned almost a decade ago is back on Great Slave Lake, showing students life aboard a research vessel. Meet youth who joined the maiden voyage. More »
'I'm no Greta,' but Snowking calls out northerners for idling trucks
The face of Yellowknife's biggest winter attraction urged residents to recognize a climate crisis is taking place and begin practising what they preach. More »