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N.W.T.

Trucks are seen from afar hosing down some structures.
* Featured * Environment Featured • Zone 1 General 

Rain around Jean Marie River, N.W.T., prevented fire from moving closer

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, July 10, 2025 at 16:21
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The community remains on an evacuation alert, meaning residents are told to be prepared to leave if need be. Rain

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A lake on the tundra.
* Featured * Canada Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 2 

Popular fishing lake near Sachs Harbour, N.W.T., unexpectedly drains

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, July 10, 2025 at 11:31
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By Dez Loreen One permafrost researcher says changes at Angus Lake likely due to melting water underground. A large lake

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* Featured * Canada Countries Environment Environment (Canada) General 

Why the N.W.T. has so much tree fluff this summer

Natalie Pressman, CBC News @natpressman
Posted: Wednesday, July 9, 2025 at 13:54
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Increase in fluff related to drought-caused stress on trees, N.W.T. environment department says Floating fluff? Summer snow? Cotton balls? If

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Society Society (Canada) 

Maori group visits N.W.T. to learn about Inuvialuit Dez Loreen ·

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, July 8, 2025 at 11:01
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By Dez Loreen Group of 8 from New Zealand spent the last week in Tuktoyaktuk Eight Maori people from New

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Society Society (Canada) 

N.W.T. RCMP urge caution with explosives after old prospecting materials found in Hay River home

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, June 26, 2025 at 13:18
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Explosives become more volatile and dangerous as they degrade N.W.T. RCMP say they evacuated part of Hay River on Tuesday after

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* Featured * Business Business (Canada) Canada Countries Featured • Zone 2 General 

Mayor calls utilities board decision on NTPC rate a win for N.W.T. communities

CBC News
Posted: Monday, June 23, 2025 at 10:12
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By Jocelyn Shepel  Power corporation must rework application by the end of July The mayor of Fort Smith, N.W.T., is

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* Featured * Business Business (Canada) Canada Featured • Zone 3 General 

N.W.T. utilities board cuts NTPC salary increase, rejects some costs in rate application decision

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:49
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By Jocelyn Shepel  Public Utilities Board agrees with some cost items but denies others The N.W.T.’s public utilities board has

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 2 General Society Society (Canada) 

Ulukhaktok, N.W.T., teacher and leader celebrated with new Canada Post stamp

CBC News
Posted: Monday, June 16, 2025 at 11:29
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Julia Haogak Ogina is a champion of preserving Kitikmeot language and culture Julia Haogak Ogina will soon be travelling the

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Society Society (Canada) 

N.W.T. barge season could still be a possibility, despite low water levels

CBC News
Posted: Friday, June 13, 2025 at 09:17
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By Nadeer Hashmi  If water levels hold, coast guard should be able to put out necessary buoys The N.W.T. government

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* Featured * Canada Featured • Zone 3 General Politics Politics (Canada) 

‘Another historical event,’ Tłı̨chǫ grand chief says of new female chief in Behchokǫ

CBC Radio
Posted: Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:31 — Last Updated: Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:52
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‘I think people, just generally, were ready for change,’ says Bertha Rabesca-Zoe, new chief of Behchokǫ Tłı̨chǫ leaders say residents

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 2 General Politics Politics (Canada) 

N.W.T. officials provide update on major infrastructure projects, some rising costs

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 10:11
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By Nadeer Hashmi  Taltson hydro expansion project now expected to cost more than $2B, minister says The Northwest Territories government

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Giant Mine
* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Canada Environment Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 3 General Newsroom Picks • zone 2 

Researchers look at how N.W.T.’s Giant Mine closure plan can consider climate change

CBC News
Posted: Friday, June 6, 2025 at 14:46
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By Jocelyn Shepel  Climate Ready Mine project team says little is known about how climate can impact mine closure planning

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Society Society (Canada) 

N.W.T. gov’t rejects call to declare state of emergency in Norman Wells

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, June 3, 2025 at 09:01
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Gov’t says rising costs for residents don’t meet territory’s definition of an emergency The Government of the Northwest Territories says

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* Featured * Canada Countries Environment Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 3 General News 

Fort Simpson ‘warmer than Toronto’ for days as heat wave hits southern N.W.T.

CBC News
Posted: Friday, May 30, 2025 at 09:01
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Environment Canada says temperatures expecting to cool in the next few days Much of the South Slave and Dehcho regions

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Society Society (Canada) 

Impacts of Jordan’s principle funding cuts already evident in N.W.T. community

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, May 29, 2025 at 13:11
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By Jocelyn Shepel  Minister says they cannot afford to fund program in place of federal government An N.W.T. MLA says funding

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The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislature of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and is composed of three parts: the Monarch, the Senate, and the House of Commons. Photo: La Presse canadienne / Adrian Wyld

Inuit push for land protection with focus on social economy

In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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