On Friday, released plans and figures for the facilities of Aurora College's Polytechnic University details plans to incorporate nature in Yellowknife's Tin Can Hill campus, to continue Fort Smith's legacy as the "administration centre" and to provide more family housing to Inuvik.
There have been multiple bear reports in the last 24 hours in Yellowknife and Dettah, says the Northwest Territories Department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR).
Yellowknife City Council has signed a memo that earmarks Tin Can Hill as the intended site for Aurora College's polytechnic university campus. Only one councillor voted against it.
Aurora College has been working to reinvent itself as a polytechnic university. Now it's eyeing a parcel of prized municipal land for its new proposed campus, on Tin Can Hill.