NWT senator Nick Sibbeston will have to pay back just under $27,000 to the Senate, following binding arbitration results released today. In 2015 the auditor general determined that Sibbeston owed roughly $50,000 for improper expense claims, ranging from travel to hospitality. Along with 13 other senators accused of playing fast and loose with Senate expense

A large truck with a snowplow on its front fell through the ice on Sunday afternoon while plowing a road along the backside of Joliffe Island. When EDGE arrived on the scene around 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, the truck, which appears to belong to Aurora Telecom Services Ltd., was half-submerged, with its front wheels still

You’ve probably seen them in your community: empty sea-cans, brought in at some point by truck, barge or rail, sitting there, possibly rusting or caught in a tangle of overgrown vegetation. But what if they could serve another purpose? Bioresource engineer Mark Lefsrud believes they can. The head of McGill University’s Biomass Production Laboratory was

Deep beneath the mountains in the southwest corner of the NWT lies a natural gas motherlode. According to a new, widely reported geological assessment released yesterday, the Liard Basin, which lies across the NWT, Yukon and B.C. border, has some 219 trillion cubic feet (TCF) of recoverable natural gas; to put that into perspective, the

Thirteen communities in the NWT will be moving ahead with a wide range of municipal infrastructure projects following the allocation of $16 million in federal funding towards the initiatives. “Construction on some of these projects will start as early as this summer and be complete as early as this fall,” said GNWT minister of Municipal

A large parcel of empty land at the southern end of Range Lake Rd. with the Middle Earth-sounding name of Hordal Bagon is set to be developed into 26 single family lots, though the possibility of a tiny home community in the area has been postponed for the time being. There had been discussion of

No floatplanes at the new park Despite being named after a Yellowknife aviation pioneer, the new waterfront park near the Wildcat Cafe will be floatplane-free. On Monday night, City Council voted to allow only non-motorized vessels to dock at the tiny Hank Koenen Park on Wiley Rd., which is currently under construction. This decision came