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An N.W.T. pilot program aimed at increasing childcare options has had zero participants nine months in. 

Environment Canada has issued several weather alerts across provinces for this week, calling for, in some place, up to 10 centimetres of snowfall due to warm surface temperatures.

Environment Canada has issued heavy snowfall warnings for 12 N.W.T. communities.

At an election forum in Fort Simpson, N.W.T., on Thursday, Nahendeh candidate Les Wright was questioned about critical things he's said of the community's warming centre. 

“We’re all a little broken. There’s solidarity in that.”

Photojournalist Pat Kane and artist Pablo Saravanja set out to meet the first responders who made sure they had homes to return to

In response to devastating wildfires that continue to ravage the Northwest Territories, PSAC has donated $75,000 to bolster the $75,000 donation from the Union of Northern Workers (UNW), a component of PSAC, to the United Way Northwest Territories Emergency Response. An evacuation order has been issued for Yellowknife, a city of 20,000 people. Fires are not showing signs of slowing down. 

A program that aims to deploy small air quality monitoring sensors in all N.W.T. communities is about halfway toward its goal — providing residents real time information about how clean the air is outside.

Temperatures hit 30 C, while smoke from wildfires in the region made Norman Wells, N.W.T., the most polluted municipality in the country, according to IQAir, a Swiss technology company that monitors air quality around the world.

Residents in one small N.W.T. community returned home, while another is still evacuated, and about a dozen new fires sparked up over the last two days.