The City of Yellowknife is planning to hold a referendum in November on whether it can borrow “a small proportion” of the estimated $52.4 million to $63.7 million it will cost to build a new aquatic centre.

N.W.T. health officials say pressures need to ease on the healthcare system and active COVID-19 cases need to drop before students can resume in-person learning.

Critically ill COVID-19 patients in B.C.'s north are being flown as far away as Vancouver Island to receive care because local hospitals no longer have enough capacity, provincial officials said Tuesday.

The repair of a cement floor in an iconic church in Inuvik is providing scientists with an opportunity to learn more about permafrost and mitigating the impact of its freeze-thaw cycle on buildings.

The funding came from nearly $17 million worth of alcohol and about $100,000 in cannabis sold by the Nunavut Liquor and Cannabis Commission (NULC) from April 2020 to March 2021.

'Luckily for the Yukon's (and the country's) fight against COVID-19, the most muted of the colourful carried the day,' writes Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox, as she ponders what the pandemic election means for the future of the North.

Dr. Michael Patterson, Nunavut’s chief public health officer, said in a news release that both people "are doing well and are isolating." It brings the total of active cases in Nunavut to five.

Despite a close loss against the incumbent Liberal candidate Michael McLeod, the NDP's Kelvin Kotchilea, who was a near second place, isn't too beat up about it. And, he says, he'll be running in the next election.

A letter to all N.W.T. communities went out earlier this month telling leaders they would not be reimbursed for costs incurred during the pandemic. But, some leaders say this is contrary to what they’ve been told over the last year-and-a-half.

Abitibi–Baie-James–Nunavik–Eeyou is the largest in Quebec and the third largest nationally. More than 30 per cent of the 65,172 eligible voters are Indigenous.