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Scripps News Staff. August 17, 2023 at 10:55 PM. People without vehicles line up to register for evacuation flights in Yellowknife, Canada.
News/North (originally the News of the North) is a newspaper based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, with offices in Fort Smith, Hay River, Fort Providence and Norman Wells, Northwest Territories, as well as Iqaluit and Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, and owned by Northern News Services.
Eight firefighters were killed, and 185,000 to 232,000 people were displaced, [3] [4] including 16,400 in Nova Scotia's capital of Halifax, 21,720 in the Northwest Territories capital of Yellowknife, and almost 30,000 in British Columbia's Kelowna and West Kelowna. [10] Thousands of international firefighters travelled to Canada to combat the ...
The Northwest Territories declared a state of emergency on March 18. [2] [3] On March 21, the territory reported its first case of COVID-19; the individual had travelled to British Columbia and Alberta before returning home to Yellowknife. [4] By May 8, the Northwest Territories has banned all non-resident travellers into the Northwest ...
Wildfire forced the evacuation of Yellowknife, the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories, last year. About 19,000 people had to flee the city , which is in an area with discontinuous ...
The Yellowknifer is a newspaper based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories and owned by Northern News Services. It was first published on March 22, 1972, by J.W. (Sig) Sigvaldson, [2] who remains the current publisher. Both a Wednesday and a Friday edition are printed weekly, with 2015 circulations of 3,911 and 4,082 respectively. [3]
The 2023 Northwest Territories general election was held on November 14, 2023. [1] Nineteen members were elected to the 20th Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly . [ 2 ] The Assembly is run on a consensus government system, in which all MLAs sit as independents and are not organized into political parties.
On 23 January 2024, Northwestern Air Flight 738, a British Aerospace Jetstream, was chartered by the Rio Tinto Group to carry mine workers from Fort Smith to the Diavik Diamond Mine, located around 300 km (190 mi) northeast of Yellowknife.