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Browsing: The North
Whitehorse, Yellowknife, Iqaluit and northern communities: territorial and local news.
Iqaluit’s proposed $216-million capital budget for 2027 puts more than half into water and wastewater upgrades. A council committee has sent it to city council.
Inuvik Boot Lake MLA Denny Rodgers is the Northwest Territories’ new minister of health and social services, replacing Lesa Semmler, who resigned in September.
Singapore-based Boroo has agreed to buy the shut Eagle gold mine near Mayo, Yukon, for $140 million, with $40 million up front. A court still has to approve the sale.
Ottawa lists the Parsons contract to manage the Giant Mine cleanup at $2.04 billion, but about $783 million of that growth never appears in any disclosed amendment.
Ottawa’s $85.5M Rankin Inlet runway rebuild doubles as military prep. Here’s what it means for the Kivalliq, and what the announcement leaves out.
Ottawa committed $405 million to the Mackenzie Valley Highway on Sept. 8, 2026. The money covers one bridge, one access road and completion of an environmental assessment running since 2013, not a highway. The Northwest Territories estimates roughly a decade of construction for the 321-kilometre Wrigley to Norman Wells leg alone.