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By noon Friday, all Yellowknife residents should have fled the city to seek shelter away from the encroaching fires. The evacuation order recommended people drive, but not everyone can.The Stanton Territorial Hospital, the largest in…

In his final swim competition at the North American Indigenous Games (NAIG), Jacob Mitchener, Team N.W.T.'s flag bearer, narrowly took third place."I was actually scared and then I looked up at the clock and I was in third," he said. "And…

The N.W.T. wouldn't have had a U19 female basketball team at the North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) this week, if it hadn't been for four 13-year-olds who stepped up to play against competitors older and more experienced than…

On any other day, Syles Timbre would be the one scoring the goals, not stopping them.That was the plan for the striker from Fort Liard as the N.W.T.'s soccer team went into its game against Team Ontario Monday during the North American…

Have you noticed fewer mosquitoes in your community this summer? You aren't alone. Taz Stuart, an entomologist who works with the N.W.T. government, said mosquito populations throughout the territory are, generally speaking, lower than…

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Long hours, inadequate work spaces and lower pay. Those are some of the conditions dentists face when they travel to remote N.W.T. communities. Earlier this year, the territorial government sent out four requests for proposals (RFPs) for…

In 1951, a man in Hay River, N.W.T., drowned after the town experienced devastating flooding.The cause of the flooding was the same thing that caused the 2022 floods: ice jams. But a 1988 report by the federal government details that a…

Extracting strawberry DNA, analyzing sleep deprivation and explaining hydrophobic pepper — those are the science projects from three students representing the Sahtu region of the Northwest Territories at a national science fair. Koda Amos,…

You might not think of the Arctic as a place with a lot of trees, but a recent study says the Mackenzie River Delta in the N.W.T. is home to the world's biggest known cumulative logjam — and it stores a huge amount of carbon. "Everywhere…