Wildfire smoke has been blasting much of the N.W.T. lately, with air quality advisories in nearly every community Tuesday morning. Meanwhile, much of the territory is also coping with record-breaking heat.

Hunters say grizzly bears are showing up in growing numbers on islands of the Beaufort Sea.

A new study has found permafrost at outposts in the Canadian Arctic is thawing 70 years earlier than predicted.

From the thickness of the ice to moose migration and pelt quality, hunters and trappers say the late arrival of cold weather in the N.W.T. is "going to have effects, down the line."