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Yellowknife says goodbye to its only cinema

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, February 5, 2026 at 10:05
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The manager of Yellowknife’s Capitol Theatre says he has mixed feelings about the public reaction he’s seen to the theatre’s

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A new Yellowknife program offers smaller, flexible learning option for neurodivergent children

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, January 1, 2026 at 10:56
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By Carla Ulrich A new learning program that opened in Yellowknife this fall offers small group programming for children who

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New company to focus on renewed N.W.T. Courageous Lake gold project

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, December 30, 2025 at 09:52
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Seabridge Gold says it plans to spin out its large but somewhat sidelined Courageous Lake gold project in the Northwest

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Nunavut mom thankful after Yellowknife woman offered to pay for son’s airline ticket

CBC News
Posted: Friday, December 26, 2025 at 09:45
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A Nunavut mom is happy to be home for Christmas in Gjoa Haven with her son, after an airline ticketing

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tundra by the ocean
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Who benefits from the Arctic economic and security corridor? It depends who you ask

CBC News
Posted: Monday, December 22, 2025 at 16:11
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By Samuel Wat Prominent northern leaders have been touting the Arctic economic and security corridor as a “nation-building” project that

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Analysis shows climate impacts will increasingly strain Canada’s Arctic defence infrastructure

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, December 18, 2025 at 17:29
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Climate change is no longer a distant concern for Canada’s Arctic security. A new analysis from the research centre L’Observatoire

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Yellowknife RCMP arrest, Taser man after police vehicles rammed, officers assaulted

CBC News
Posted: Monday, December 15, 2025 at 13:38
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Man faces several charges including dangerous operation of a vehicle, assaulting a peace officer with a weapon A 39-year-old man

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7,000L fuel spill in Yellowknife could have been prevented, truck driver says

CBC News
Posted: Friday, November 21, 2025 at 12:50
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Kelly Stabenow still remembers when 7,000 litres of furnace fuel seeped into the ground in Yellowknife’s Engle Business District near

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Air Tindi pausing flights between Yellowknife and Whatı

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, October 8, 2025 at 13:46
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By Devon Tredinnick  Flight lacked popularity, was costing airline too much, president says A Yellowknife airline has put a pause

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How to mark the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in the North

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 13:07
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People across the North will mark the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Tuesday. The annual event is observed to

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Environment Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 1 

Whatı̀ residents evacuating community due to wildfire

CBC News
Posted: Friday, August 29, 2025 at 14:32
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The evacuation of Whatı̀, N.W.T., is proceeding in an orderly fashion by road, according to a Northwest Territories fire information

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African grocery store in Yellowknife highlights francophone entrepreneurship

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, August 6, 2025 at 11:32
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By Mohamed-Amin Kehel, Francis Tessier-Burns ‘I want to supply the North, so that all Africans can feel at home,’ says owner

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Yellowknife’s wastewater is showing signs of 2 new ‘potent’ drugs

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, July 24, 2025 at 12:40
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The N.W.T.’s top health official says two new drugs have been detected in Yellowknife’s wastewater — and both could be

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Yellowknife school launches land-based junior kindergarten

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, July 23, 2025 at 14:08
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By Sarah St-Pierre Gloria Gaudet has been teaching junior kindergarten for two years, and come the fall, she will be doing

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Territorial ministers seek full funding for national plan on gender-based violence

Avery Zingel, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, July 16, 2025 at 14:46
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Ministers meet with federal counterpart in Yellowknife about tackling gendered violence Amid the federal government’s bid to reduce spending, territorial ministers

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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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