The N.W.T. education department will meet with federal Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu about how sweeping changes to Jordan's Principle funding will affect N.W.T. which relies on the fund to pay more than 60 per cent of the territory's educational assistants.

The federal government is appointing former Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated (NTI) president Aluki Kotierk to oversee an external review of the Nutrition North subsidy. 

Police in Fort Good Hope, N.W.T., are investigating what they're calling a suspicious death in the community, after they found the body of a 29-year-old man in a residence.

Randall Blake of Fort McPherson, N.W.T., has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in connection with a house fire that killed a young woman in the community in 2023.

The first-ever Joel Tetso Memorial Hockey Tournament will be held in Fort Smith, N.W.T., from March 14 to 16. It was created to honour Tetso, who died in a plane crash in January 2024.

A jury found Robin Williams not guilty on six charges of assault. On Monday, the Crown prosecutor stayed the remaining eight charges against Williams for assault and sexual assault. Williams says the case has had a devastating impact on his life.

In court documents obtained by CBC, the plaintiffs say that a Feb 3. board meeting amounted to an attempted “hostile takeover” of the Gwich’in Tribal Council by Frederick Blake Jr. and other board members who were present.

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Four properties belonging to Range Lake Developments are on the list, with 2023 tax arrears totalling over $100,000. That number makes up just over half of the town's total tax arrears for 2023, including both residential and commercial properties.

Three new public housing buildings in Behchoko will become homes for families, singles and elders as early as next month. 

Members of the Canadian Armed Forces and soldiers from allied countries are training in Inuvik until March 9 as part of Operation Nanook-Nunalivut.

The program was originally supposed to reopen last month, but unexpected federal reductions to the number of people the N.W.T. could accept forced it to delay reopening.

A committee of Fort Good Hope leaders says it doesn't trust Imperial Oil's operations in Norman Wells, N.W.T., and it's opposing the company's application for a three-year water licence renewal. 

A peer-reviewed study published in the journal Nature this week says the world's glaciers lost ice at the rate of about 231 billion tonnes annually from 2000 to 2011, but that quickened to about 314 billion tonnes annually over about the next decade.

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The Canada Infrastructure Bank is loaning the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation $100 million to develop a natural gas well that is expected to provide the region with fossil fuel and synthetic diesel for more than 50 years. 

Brenda T'Seleie-Pierrot, who helps run a three-bedroom safe home that serves women and children fleeing family violence in the Sahtu region, said the changes are unfair and will be detrimental to many children in her community.

Rachel Homan's curling team was virtually, if not mathematically, assured a playoff spot at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts with a fifth straight win. The defending champions and reigning world champions remained unbeaten with a 7-4 win over New Brunswick's Melissa Adams on Tuesday.

Hannah Lafferty was charged in connection with the death of 30-year-old Germaine Mantla, who was struck by a vehicle in April 2022 at Bison Hill apartments in Yellowknife. 

Materials intended for use in a new health centre in Tulı́t'a, N.W.T., have become mouldy and warped from weather and moisture damage and are now unusable for the facility.

RCMP said the two incidents happened minutes apart early on Saturday morning and are believed to be linked, and related to the local drug trade.

The chief of Pedzéh Kı̨ First Nation says his community does not oppose the highway but takes issue with the current proposed route, which enters moose habitat and runs over unstable landslide-prone areas.