The president of Fortune Minerals discusses what he sees as a big step on the road to launching the company's Nico mine outside Whati, while the legislature works on introducing a family room for staff and politicians.

Creation of the Ts’udé Nilįné Tuyeta protects 10,000 square kilometres of the Sahtu. Cabin Radio's Emelie Peacock reports from a celebration of the protected area in Fort Good Hope.

We meet a biologist behind adorable photos of grizzly bears playing with remote scratching posts in the NWT, plus two of the 27 Yellowknifers who took on a Las Vegas marathon are in studio.

Yellowknife's gravel-pit snowboard park makes headlines in one of the sport's leading magazines. Plus a new protected area is about to be celebrated in Fort Good Hope.

Longtime Yellowknife prospector Walt Humphries is among three people joining us on the show after being honoured at the NWT's mineral and exploration awards.

Why aluminum might (and might not) be the material of choice for the territory's future runways, plus the NWT opens a chapter of Women in Mining.

Yellowknife musician Carmen Braden joins us from Ontario as the Toronto Symphony Orchestra performs her latest composition. Meanwhile, Ecology North is in the studio to discuss composting programs in the NWT.

CBC North's managing director, Janice Stein, joins Ollie to discuss her planned merger of three separate newscasts - for the NWT, Nunavut, and Yukon - into one.

The GNWT attempts to sell a remote community's disused air terminal for $100 on Facebook - with one catch - and Three Feathers, the South Slave movie, is released on DVD.

Some Canadian North staff say the new airline feels more like it's being taken over by First Air than a merger.