Spring is in the air. The length of sunlight and temperatures rising boosts our hopes to new adventures.

Cabinet minister Adam Lightstone found himself in a bit of a pickle this past month when colleagues instigated an investigation by NunavutSA国际影视传媒檚 integrity commissioner over a potential conflict of interest sparked by a temporary appointment within his department.

Imagine needing a replacement kidney for over seven years and going through regular dialysis treatments over that period.

Things have been rough before for NWT tourism, but never this rough.

EditorSA国际影视传媒檚 note: The NWT Medical Association shared the following statement with media outlets on March 22; it is included unedited and in its entirety.

In what we can only hope was a slip of the tongue, the MLA from Great Slave Lake recently said she was concerned about land being sacrificed for parks that could be better used for resource development.

Dear editor,

Forty-five thousand tonnes of steel and concrete is suspended over the Mackenzie River.

Internet connectivity is something our neighbours to the south take for granted.

This story is part fact and part fiction because it happened a long time ago and some of the details are a little fuzzy but the brunt of it is true. In the early 1970s I was working for a Yellowknife company Precambrian Mining Services Limited. The summer exploration season was wrapping up early and they asked me if I would go to Norman Wells for a few months to help with an expediting service they were running there, primarily for the oil and gas industry.