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

As bills come in for Yellowknife’s wildfire response, city needs help

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, September 27, 2023 at 09:18
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City looking to hire help to deal with ‘high volume of complex invoices’ It was a massive effort, involving city

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

N.W.T. gov’t warns Enterprise mayor not to use hamlet funds for new homes

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, September 26, 2023 at 10:40
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‘We are not in a position to help people. That’s what we were told, basically,’ says Mayor Michael St Amour

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

Severe wildfires will have long-lasting impact on N.W.T.’s boreal forest

CBC News
Posted: Monday, September 25, 2023 at 09:23
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By Taylor Holmes · CBC News  More than 4 million hectares of forest have burned in the N.W.T. during the 2023 wildfire

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

Hay River, N.W.T., seeks more territorial and federal gov’t support post-wildfire

Natalie Pressman, CBC News @natpressman
Posted: Monday, September 18, 2023 at 15:39 — Last Updated: Monday, September 18, 2023 at 15:41
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‘I challenge everybody to shop locally for Christmas and help these guys out’ Leaders in Hay River, N.W.T., say they’ll

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Poor visibility to greet returning Hay River workers Wednesday

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, September 13, 2023 at 14:37 — Last Updated: Wednesday, September 13, 2023 at 15:20
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Weather conditions will make for a smoky day in parts of the Northwest Territories on Wednesday. An atmospheric inversion is

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

Some N.W.T. evacuees consider staying put after wildfire crisis

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, September 6, 2023 at 09:26
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By Robert Holden, CBC News  ‘It feels like we’re in a boat that’s sinking, and all we have is cups

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

No highway fire risk expected as public prepares Yellowknife return

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, September 5, 2023 at 09:20
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By Luke Carroll, Liny Lamberink · CBC News · Officials also fielded questions about evacuees forced to re-locate in Calgary Wildfires are not expected

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

N.W.T. projected to spend $100M on fighting wildfires — 5 times more than budgeted

CBC News
Posted: Monday, September 4, 2023 at 08:17
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By Francis Tessier-Burns · CBC News ‘Roughly spending about $10 million a week right now,’ says MLA The N.W.T. is actively fighting

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N.W.T. reveals phased return plan for wildfire evacuees

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, August 29, 2023 at 13:04
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Nearly 70% of N.W.T. residents have been displaced by wildfires Firefighting efforts have halted the spread of a wildfire near

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* Featured * Canada Countries General Politics Politics (Canada) 

MLAs in N.W.T. postpone upcoming election, add $75M to wildfire budget

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, August 29, 2023 at 10:58
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General election now set for Nov. 14, as recommended by chief electoral officer N.W.T. MLAs have voted to postpone the

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

MLAs in N.W.T. look to postpone election amid wildfires, evacuations

CBC News
Posted: Monday, August 28, 2023 at 15:27
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Inuvik hall to sub in as assembly site on Monday while capital remains under evacuation order MLAs in the N.W.T.

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

N.W.T. fires have released 97 megatonnes of carbon, says European agency

Liny Lamberink, CBC News @linylamberink
Posted: Monday, August 28, 2023 at 13:48
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Territory on track to beat 2014 record for how much land has burned Wildfires in the N.W.T have emitted 97

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

N.W.T. premier says PM committed to ‘accelerating’ territorial infrastructure

Luke Caroll, CBC News
Posted: Monday, August 28, 2023 at 09:28
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Caroline Cochrane says she hopes Trudeau will visit the N.W.T. after the wildfires, his first visit in years N.W.T. Premier

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

N.W.T. will step up enforcement to prevent people from entering evacuated communities

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, August 24, 2023 at 08:57
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RCMP say they will use enforcement at checkpoints RCMP in the Northwest Territories say they’ll be delivering firm deterrence to

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

Transport closures empty shelves, leaving some N.W.T. communities without groceries

Natalie Pressman, CBC News @natpressman
Posted: Wednesday, August 23, 2023 at 13:59 — Last Updated: Wednesday, August 23, 2023 at 14:06
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‘People are people and they bought out the store in about two days,’ says Łútselk’e Co-op manager Shelf-stable milk and

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