According to N.W.T. Department of Infrastructure, extreme cold has prevented survey crews from testing to see if ice on Yellowknife Bay is thick enough to begin construction on Dettah Ice road.
Crews completed emergency navigational channel in the harbour, making a passage that had become dangerous with the buildup of sediment a lot safer for vessels.
TULITA, N.W.T. - The Northwest Territories government says damage to a fuel hose played a role in delaying this year's shipping season for resupply barges headed to coastal communities.
SACHS HARBOUR, N.W.T. - Austin Larocque says he doesn't know when he may get most of his worldly possessions, currently sitting in a shipping container in Sachs Harbour, N.W.T., after a barge set to arrive in the High Arctic community this season was cancelled.