Great Slave Lake

Wildfires continue to disrupt communication services in the Northwest Territories as crews braced for tough days fighting the blaze threatening the capital city of Yellowknife.

The mayor of Yellowknife says it's not safe for residents to go home to the territorial capital, but notes city officials are working on a return plan as a fire continues to burn about 15 kilometres away.

Firefighters battling a wildfire near the capital of the Northwest Territories shifted from defence to offence, as the legislative assembly is set to be recalled to consider a law delaying the upcoming territorial election.

Defence Minister Bill Blair says another company of soldiers is being deployed to Hay River in the Northwest Territories, which has been evacuated for more than a week due to a threatening wildfire nearby.

The Ni Hat'ni Dene program is one of 150 different Indigenous Guardians programs that have blossomed in the last five years.

Behind a fence sit cans containing remains of the mine's old roaster building, its every beam and timber steeped in poison from more than a half-century of separating gold from the arsenic that held it.

Prince Charles says he and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, were departing Canada with "heavy hearts" and a deeper understanding of residential schools after their royal visit wrapped in the Northwest Territories.

An Indigenous organization wants more money for more eyes and ears to keep tabs on traditional First Nations land and Canada's new protected areas.

A deal on a vast new national park reserve in the North is being called a model for future relationships between First Nations and Canada.

Some of North America's top conservation scientists have written to the federal government urging it to speed up land protection in Canada.

Giving indigenous people a greater say in the operation of national parks and the creation of new protected areas is on the agenda at a major conference in Alberta this week.