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N.W.T. non-profit calls for long-term funding for healing lodge

June 16 , 2026 at 06:24:20 p.m. CDT • :

Last year, the Endacho Healing Society got $7 million from the federal government to establish the new healing lodge. But that's only a start. On Tuesday at a public briefing, he called on the N.W.T. government to commit to long-term funding for the lodge.

Connective retracts decision to quit running Whitehorse Emergency Shelter early

June 16 , 2026 at 01:31:15 p.m. CDT • :

The non-profit that runs the Whitehorse Emergency Shelter has retracted its decision to quit running the facility's operations and food services before its contract ends at the end of August.

Disease deadly to bats found for 1st time in Northwest Territories

June 16 , 2026 at 05:31:46 p.m. CDT • :

In a news release Tuesday, the government says a case of white-nose syndrome, along with the fungus that causes the disease, was found a bat in the Fort Smith area as part of ongoing monitoring.

Territory's new encampment framework ignores need for housing, N.W.T. lawyer says

June 16 , 2026 at 04:58:20 p.m. CDT • :

The Northwest Territories government's new framework for responding to homeless encampments ignores what those living in the encampments need most: housing. That's the assessment of Peter Adourian, the lawyer representing residents of an encampment in Yellowknife.

'A big moment': Horses back at Yellowknife stable, 3 years after wildfire evacuation

June 16 , 2026 at 02:14:23 p.m. CDT • :

A Yellowknife non-profit society is preparing for a busy summer after the return of some horses to a local stable. It comes three years after all the animals from the former North Country Stables were moved south during the city's wildfire evacuation.