An NWT diamond mine steps in to help the Yellowknife Women's Society revamp its shelter, plus Mikey McBryan's race to get a DC-3 in the air for D-Day, and a new TV show promises $500,000 to the last person left in the NWT wilderness.

Education minister Caroline Cochrane says she's planning to go to the federal government for funding to build a new university campus building in Yellowknife, plus meet the 13-year-old king of NWT puppy fostering.

How Stacie Smith, who phoned Cabin Radio in tears eight month ago, turned her Yellowknife flower shop from a failure into what she hopes will become a tourist destination. Plus a tornado specialist joins the show, and Yellowknife's farmers' market opens.

Brittanie Gladue describes seeing a funnel cloud feet away from her in Fort Smith on Sunday. Plus Dr Hasan Hutchinson explains how he believes the new edition of Canada's Food Guide, which he helped to produce, can work for northerners.

Indigenous poet and author Billy-Ray Belcourt, who grew up in northern Alberta, joins Ollie in studio ahead of his appearance at this weekend's Northwords NWT literary festival. Plus we meet the only female welder at Skills Canada nationals (she's from Yellowknife), and the Fort Smith greenhouse owner whose flowers might rescue grad.

Cabin Radio meets Casey, the very first baby born at Yellowknife's new Stanton Hospital. Plus we check in with businesses to see what kind of impact you might expect from the highway closure on the NWT-Alberta border.

Should Yellowknife's vacant Bellanca building be torn down? Plus we go inside the Mackenzie Datastream, meet a YK teacher recognized by the Prime Minister, and listen in on an all-new chant for the NWT at Skills Canada Nationals in Halifax.

Three Aurora College students create a help manual for new Yellowknifers who speak Arabic and Tagalog, plus how a Yellowknife hotel may become transitional housing.

Premier Bob McLeod launches a broadside at Ottawa over a perceived lack of Arctic leadership. Plus the NWT mulls icebreaking LNG tankers in the Arctic Ocean, and the NWT's finest head to Skills Canada Nationals.

Norm Glowach describes how he turned photo and audio records of old-time Yellowknife into a new stage production. Plus we hear from cyclists attempting a 2,200-km journey from Whistler to YK.