NWT Opioid Task Force to meet this week

Yellowknife city officials announced they are still accepting applications for grants worth up to $10,000 for non-profit community groups. Last year, the city provided about $500,000 in funding to various community groups through sponsorships and grant programs including the Community Grant and Heritage Committee Grant programs. A grant committee who will decide successful bids are accepting applications up to noon on Jan. 19.

NTPC officials say that a house blaze that broke out over the weekend in the town of Norman Wells prompted fire officials to request power be cut temporarily as crews fought to contain the fire. While most of the community saw power restored within about one hour, seven households within closest proximity to the fire had to wait until it was safe to do so.

Aurora College staff are working to get systems back online after a cyber attack over the December break, according to an announcement issued Sunday. Jayne Murray, the college’s communications manager says staff are working to “purge any malicious codes,” from the system.

The Polytechnic Institute of Northern Canada has received five-year accreditation and a certificate of registration to operate as a private training institution in the Northwest Territories, effective Jan. 1, 2026.

The Northern Territories Federation of Labour launched a campaign last week in Iqaluit and Yellowknife drawing attention to the health care crisis, characterized in the North by ongoing staffing shortages and a growing reliance on temporary contract workers. Sara-Jayne Dempster, president of the Northern Territories Federation of Labour, says that nursing students who graduate here are running into barriers finding jobs, which is contributing to the crisis in the North.