Why can’t Hay River find even a single doctor to live in the town?
Hay River hasn't had a doctor living in the town since 2019. After the latest spell without even a locum physician, a nurse says other staff are burning out and worried.
Hay River hasn't had a doctor living in the town since 2019. After the latest spell without even a locum physician, a nurse says other staff are burning out and worried.
A plan that maps out the future of Yellowknife's airport "is in the final stages" before being made public, the NWT's infrastructure minister says.
Dene Nation representatives met with a United Nations special rapporteur to discuss the impact of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
The Dene National Chief added his voice to those demanding accountability for spills at an Alberta oil sands mine. Water tests in nearby communities continue.
Some NWT artists say a strategy designed to improve the sector misses the mark and is a licence for the territorial government to preserve the status quo.
Some NWT MLAs want to turn down an automatic 6.8-percent pay increase in favour of a smaller one. Others oppose that plan and have suggestions of their own.
MLAs passed a motion requesting that the GNWT institute a rent cap, though it isn't binding. "I wanted to get the dialogue started," Katrina Nokleby said.
Fewer kilometres of NWT highway will be chipsealed this construction season because of inflation's effect on costs, the minister responsible says.
Students "don't want to come to Fort Smith," Aurora College's president told town leaders. Glenda Vardy Dell also discussed why she is based in Yellowknife.
The NWT and Alberta environment ministers will meet on Thursday as the territory seeks answers over how a massive spill and ongoing tailings leak were reported.
Great Slave MLA Katrina Nokleby is bringing forward a motion calling for a limit to the rent increase any NWT tenant can face in a year.
Tuktoyaktuk's MLA says delays to renovation work at the community's school risk depriving students and residents of the space they need.