Wildfire destroys eco-tourism lodge
Moraine Point Lodge, a beautiful eco-tourism destination on the north shore of Great Slave Lake, was burned to the ground by wildfire last week, leaving the owners in a state of shock.
View ArticleTight budgets and new fixes for NWT towns’ cost crunch
NWT communities suffer from high costs, accomodating forced growth and the turnover of key administrative staff, but dealing with the high price of replacing aging infrastructure is a new imperative.
View ArticlePetitions posted against fracking, oilsands waste dumping
The low price of petroleum has already discouraged companies that were fracking for oil in the Central Mackenzie region, but a petition circulating in the NWT aspires to make their pullout the...
View ArticleHay River seeks new deal on power
The Town of Hay River has served notice it will not renew its franchise agreement for the provision of electrical power with Northland Utilities (NUL), and will seek proposals for a provider that can...
View ArticleSmith council ignores public pleas, passes budget
Fort Smith Town Council faced a rare packed gallery for its budget decision meeting the evening of Dec. 16, which included a presentation in support of extra funding for the Mary Kaeser library.
View ArticleOptimistic outlook for NWT economy
The recently released report from the Conference Board of Canada was optimistic in its predictions for the NWT economy in 2015, saying growth will jump from 1.5 per cent in 2014 to 5.3 per cent next...
View ArticleNew Fort Smith doctor veteran of war zones
Fort Smith’s new permanent doctor, Dr. Sarah Giles, has treated people in crisis and war zones on three continents, in some of the most tumultuous places on the planet.
View ArticleOperation Nanook coming to Fort Smith in late August
Operation Nanook, the annual military exercise by Joint Task Force North (JTFN) that “asserts Canada’s sovereignty over its northernmost regions,” will be held in Fort Smith at the end of August in...
View ArticleWiping the winter blues – and frost – away
Scraping frost from car windows will soon be a thing of the past, as will windshield rock chips all Northerners suffer from our gravel roads, if a small Ontario company with its brilliant, new,...
View ArticleA little vehicle love goes a long way
As we near the end of a long, cold winter it is good to review how well we treat the vehicles we are so dependent on.
View ArticleRelay for Life ‘empowering,’ says leader Shari Olsen
Shari Olsen started organizing this year’s Fort Smith Relay for Life cancer fundraiser event over six months ago, the same as she does each year since she got involved in organizing the biannual event...
View ArticleWildfires dampened as north winds bring rain, lightning
Storms pushed down the Mackenzie Valley late last week and over the weekend, bringing cool temperatures, strong north winds and scattered showers in a broad band from Inuvik all the way to Fort Smith,...
View ArticleBombs away! After 30 years of seeding lakes and ponds, NWT wild rice yields a...
For decades Pat Bobinski and Bruce Green have tended wild rice crops in ponds around Hay River. This year they took Kim Ripati, the operations manager of the Northern Farm Training Institute (NFTI) to...
View ArticleExciting action, close scores at NWT soccer championships
The NWT Outdoor Soccer Championships kept the three Hay River soccer pitches filled with action on the weekend as players from at least eight communities descended on the South Slave hub town.
View ArticleFort Smith nordic club gets fired up for new season
The Fort Smith Nordic Club hosted a biathlon training camp over the weekend with shooters from Hay River along with coach Pat Bobinski in the lead.
View ArticleNWT mushers sweep Saskatchewan circuit races
Competitive dog mushers descended on the town of Preeceville in south-central Saskatchewan last weekend and at the end of two days of races, the winners were all from the NWT.
View ArticleVirtuoso duo charms and enthralls NWT audiences
Music lovers in Yellowknife and Fort Smith received a treat last week witnessing the talents of Yolanda Bruno and Isabelle David, whose superlative performances on violin and piano enthralled audiences.
View ArticleThe Beverly Caribou Herd’s headlong rush to extinction
The once massive Beverly Caribou herd that roamed the Canadian Barrenlands for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years, has vanished from the planet, and evidence recently published in the scientific...
View ArticleCaribou diminished, vulnerable, under siege
Most of the great Canadian migratory caribou herds have declined to tiny remnant populations and are in a vulnerable state, and Earl Evans, chair of the Beverly Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Board...
View ArticleNorthern Journal ‘cleans up’ at awards ceremony
The print edition of the Northern Journal received numerous awards at the Alberta Weekly Newspaper Association’s (AWNA) annual convention in Edmonton in late May.
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