June 22, 2011 - The Northwest Territories (NWT) portion of the 2011 Royal Tour will highlight the NWT’s diversity, Aboriginal heritage, unique culture, consensus style of government and natural beauty.

June 22, 2011 - Canada’s Western Premiers celebrated National Aboriginal Day in Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories yesterday by participating in a variety of community and cultural activities honouring the Territory’s rich Aboriginal heritage and traditions.

Premiers enjoyed an aerial tour of the world-renowned Nahanni National Park, flying over iconic landmarks such as the Nahanni River, Virginia Falls, Horn Plateau and the Mackenzie Mountains.

June 20, 2011 - The Project Description Report (PDR), for the future construction of the Mackenzie Valley Highway in the Gwich’in Settlement Area, was presented to Transportation Minister Michael McLeod by Richard Nerysoo, President of the Gwich’in Tribal Council, marking another milestone in the Mackenzie Valley Highway to Tuktoyaktuk project.

June 16, 2011 - Approximately 50 high school students, gathered from across the NWT, are discussing their concerns and ideas to improve education in the North as the Aboriginal Student Achievement (ASA) Youth Forum gets underway in Fort Smith.

June 16, 2011 - Canada’s Western Premiers will meet in the Northwest Territories (NWT) next week.

NWT Premier Floyd K. Roland will host and chair the 2011 Western Premiers’ Conference with meetings scheduled in Yellowknife and Fort Simpson from June 20-22nd.

June 15, 2011 - For the third consecutive year, hundreds of bicycle helmets, supplied by BHP Billiton, are being distributed by the GNWT throughout the Northwest Territories to encourage children and youth to wear their helmets while cycling.
The donations support the GNWT’s Use Your Head campaign under the Healthy Choices Framework. The campaign promotes the use of helmets by youth and adults as another Healthy Choice that will prevent brain and spinal injuries for bicycle, motorcycle, ATV, and snowmobile riders and skateboarders in the NWT.

June 14, 2011 - June 15^th, 2011 is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day and the Department of Health and Social Services wants residents of the NWT to be aware that abuse against older adults can come in the form of financial, emotional or physical.

Through its ongoing campaign, Together We Can Stop Elder Abuse, the Department is encouraging residents to speak up about abuse.  The campaign is intended to raise awareness and provide information on elder abuse in the NWT.

June 13, 2011 - The Government of the Northwest Territories is investing $500,000 to assist with the operating costs of youth centres in every NWT community.

“Youth Centres Initiative funding helps provide financial support so youth centres across the NWT can focus on developing quality programs that help shape and strengthen our future leaders,” said Robert C. McLeod Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs and Minister responsible for Youth.

June 9, 2011 - A new burn structure has been added to the NWT Emergency Services Training Centre. The modular structure, designed for firefighters and rescue crews to practice scenarios for the battling of structure fires, was officially opened today.

June 8, 2011 - A key priority of the 16^th Legislative Assembly received a welcome endorsement in the federal Budget Monday. The Government of Canada reaffirmed its commitment to spend $30 million per year over the next five years to advance the Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk portion of the Mackenzie Valley Highway project.