Ottawa announced a major funding package for the Mackenzie Valley Highway, committing $405 million from its Arctic Infrastructure Fund to advance design work.
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Fort Smith RCMP have named and charged two Alberta men after a shooting early Saturday in the town left three people wounded, one with "life-altering injuries."
The federal government triggered the formal process of turning the NWT's Mackenzie Valley Highway into one of its first "projects of national interest."
RCMP in Fort Smith say the suspect in a shooting that wounded three people this weekend was arrested in the early hours of Sunday morning.
The NWT Power Corporation said it had begun the process of recruiting a new leader after president and chief executive officer Cory Strang resigned.
Organizers of Fort Smith's Fireweed Festival say they will "continue as planned" after taking advice from RCMP following a shooting that wounded three people early on Saturday.
