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Yellowknife's deputy mayor, Garett Cochrane, said that although hotspots happen "quite often,” the city has never dealt with a subsurface fire before. The city said the fire it's 7,000 square metres in size, which is about 10 per cent of the landfill cell it's in.
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The Northwest Territories Power Corporation says it's doing a series of tests this month inside the facility's powerhouse that could cause water levels downstream to fluctuate, making ice in the area unsafe. The hydro facility is expected to start running commercially again on Jan. 27.
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Nunavut is returning to the Scotties Tournament of Hearts after a one-year hiatus. A lack of available players and the closure of Iqaluit's curling rink, which was used as a backup set for the production of a TV show, caused Nunavut to withdraw last year.
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Environmental experts are worried the cumulative effects of gas, oil and fuel spills aren't being adequately tracked in parts of the North. Last year, Nunavut and N.W.T. together recorded hundreds of contaminant spills, some of them small and others in the thousands of litres.
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RCMP say they were called to a home in Hay River about a "possible hostage-taking” on Friday morning. Three people are facing charges and police believe the situation to be related to the drug trade — but they say they haven't been able to substantiate the claim it was a hostage-taking.
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The U.S. Interior Department on Wednesday said no bids were submitted for this week's oil and gas lease sale in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — a sale the state has challenged as too restrictive and at odds with a 2017 law aimed at opening the refuge's sweeping coastal plan to exploration and development.
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