Start bringing your own face mask for flights, NWT says
Starting Monday, June 8, NWT residents travelling on flights will need to bring their own non-medical mask to wear. Up till now, the GNWT had provided masks. More »
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Most NWT ferries will now keep regular operating hours
Most NWT ferries will stick to standard 16-hour operating days after a review of the territory's pandemic recovery plan. Reduced hours were previously planned. More »
Here’s the NWT’s summer 2020 highway construction plan
Find out which construction projects are planned for the NWT's roads and highways this summer, what the work will involve, and when it'll happen. More »
NWT communities unimpressed by ferries’ reduced hours
Residents of communities served by ferries must carefully plan their travel as services have reduced hours. Community leaders say it's another inconvenience. More »
NWT moving pandemic checkpoint from Enterprise to border
The NWT's pandemic checkpoint on its one remaining highway to the south will be moved from the community of Enterprise to the border with Alberta. More »
‘It is our roadblock.’ Fort Simpson’s natural isolation
Spring breakup means some NWT communities don't need a barricade to put distance between themselves and Covid-19. But summer ferries will have new restrictions. More »
How many people are still coming into the NWT?
The NWT has for weeks maintained unprecedented restrictions on the way people enter the territory. See what effect that's having on the numbers coming in. More »
NWT winter road to diamond mines closes for the season
The winter road leading from the Ingraham Trail to the Northwest Territories' diamond mines has officially closed for the season. More »
Cameras guard NWT’s Highway 7 roadblock after complaints
Cameras are now monitoring the barricaded stretch of Highway 7 between Fort Liard and the BC border after residents complained the closure was being ignored. More »
Aklak Air cuts back to two passenger flights per week
Aklak Air will drop to two Arctic coastal passenger flights a week as Covid-19 destroys demand for air travel. Even that may be unsustainable, the airline said. More »
North-Wright closes down passenger flights, in part to protect Sahtu
North-Wright Airways is shutting down all passenger flights for three weeks, saying "the time is now to close the connection from the Sahtu to Yellowknife." More »
No last-ditch runs to BC, warns minister, ahead of Highway 7 closure
Katrina Nokleby urged Dehcho residents not to embark on any final trips south into British Columbia, hours before Highway 7 is to be closed at the border. More »