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Park and floatplane dock on Wiley Road looking likely

After years as antagonists, the NWT Floatplane Society and Latham Island Neighbourhood Association found common ground on Monday over waterfront development in Old Town. Lisa Scott and Hal Logsdon, Presidents of LINA and the Floatplane society, agreed the dilapidated dock and gravel lot on Wiley Road, just down from the Wildcat, should become a park

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Council Briefs: Oct. 27 – New City program to help build YK business

Small business in Yellowknife is getting a boost after council voted in a business incubation and incentive program last night. The plan has six parts: Establishing an entrepreneurship mentorship program to connect business owners in Yellowknife with local and national mentors in the same industries. Increasing networking opportunities by partnering with the Yellowknife Chamber of

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Council Briefs: Oct. 20 – City set for legal challenge over electoral boundaries

The current Yellowknife electoral boundaries map | produced for Elections NWT by the NWT Centre for Geomatics City council looks set to take the GNWT to court over Yellowknife’s under-representation in the legislative assembly. The four councillors present at Monday’s municipal services committee expressed interest in a legal challenge, though it won’t be discussed officially

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New plan to save the Robertson Headframe 

Heritage Committee Chair and NWT Mining Heritage Society Vice-President Mike Vaydik hopes Yellowknifers will donate to a campaign to save the headframe. photos Angela Gzowski A new plan to save the Robertson Headframe, through a mix of private donations and City funding, got its first airing at Wednesday’s heritage committee meeting. The idea is to have

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Council Briefs: Tuesday, October 14

More assessments, fewer tax hikes, council hopes Eager to dodge future tax shocks like the one still rocking Kam Lake, city council voted unanimously on Monday to change the frequency of general property assessments to once every five years. In the past, general assessments – which gauge property values for the purpose of taxation –

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Battle for Bartesko Court

The latest skirmish in a marathon rezoning battle that’s been raging for 13 years between Range Lake residents and developer TC Enterprises came to an impasse on Monday. City council agreed to send TC’s proposal to build a second three-storey apparent building in Bartesko Court back to administration after incensed neighbours packed the municipal services

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Council shifts focus to 50/50 lot

With the Gold Range and Raven remaining out of reach, the City plans to revitalize downtown through the purchase of the vacant parking lot at the corner of 50th and 50th. City council voted in favour of buying the land on Monday. Council was split down the middle on the controversial $1.45 million purchase that

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