GNWT seeks multi-year federal funding for Hay River dredging
The GNWT says a request to Ottawa for Hay River dredging cash will be submitted this week. If money arrives, work considered long overdue could start in July.
The GNWT says a request to Ottawa for Hay River dredging cash will be submitted this week. If money arrives, work considered long overdue could start in July.
NWT ministers are pushing their Yukon counterparts to drive the Dempster Highway in a bid to illustrate the consequences of deteriorating road conditions.
Objects fired upon over Yukon and Lake Huron were downed in part over the threat they posed to air travel, officials said. (They denied aliens are involved.)
Canada says fighter aircraft shot down what defence minister Anita Anand called a "small, cylindrical object" 40,000 feet above central Yukon.
"We're looking at two lights dancing around." A Canadian North flight in late January saw unidentified lights over Yellowknife. (Did someone say spy balloon?)
The on-again off-again winter road between Fort Smith and Fort Chipewyan reopened again on Wednesday after an earlier, brief closure related to overflow.
Parks Canada says the winter road through Wood Buffalo National Park between Fort Smith and Fort Chipewyan has now reopened following repair work.
Parks Canada says there's no telling how long the Fort Smith-Fort Chipewyan winter road will remain closed after heavy equipment broke through the ice.
Parks Canada says the winter road through Wood Buffalo National Park, connecting Fort Smith and Fort Chipewyan, is closed until further notice.
NWT residents can once again receive $5,000 rebates for the purchase of some new electric vehicles, a program that stopped midway through 2022.
Overflow is worsening conditions on the winter road through Wood Buffalo National Park, Parks Canada says, while hanging ice is a danger for snowmobiles.
Yellowknife's airport will bring in geotechnical engineers to find out why its two runways appear susceptible to continued settling of the ground beneath them.