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The N.W.T. government says it's working to ensure food and other key goods keep flowing to remote communities amid the ongoing wildfires and evacuations of key regional hubs.
Eighty-five prisoners from jails in the Northwest Territories are being transferred to Alberta's correctional system as wildfires bear down on Yellowknife — one of the first times in Canadian history a natural disaster has forced a large-scale movement of prisoners between jurisdictions.
YELLOWKNIFE - Residents of the Northwest Territories' capital and some neighbouring communities have been ordered to evacuate the area by Friday because of an encroaching wildfire.
The Inquest into the death of Marty Bouvier at a Fort Smith Correctional Complex wrapped up yesterday with a list of recommendations from the jury.
As the inquest into the death of an N.W.T. inmate entered its second day Wednesday, testimony from wardens and the director of corrections revealed officers hadn't followed policy the day Marty Bouvier died.