How a block of ice and a ring transformed Yellowknife's fieldhouse parking lot into a romantic getaway, plus why new aviation workshops in the NWT will focus on women, and the Mayor of Yellowknife discusses Hockey Day in Canada's bid to hold next year's live TV show in the city.

Dr Pertice Moffitt describes a new program in which she joins researchers across Canada to make maternal health work better in remote communities. Plus Monique Chapman explains how she's hoping to clean up the ice road to Dettah.

Fort Resolution is laying people off and says it's broke. Sarah Pruys speaks to the community's mayor and the territorial government officials trying to help balance the books. Plus a look back at 2018 tourism stats, and the hunt for Walt's work - some Walt Humphries originals have gone missing. Can you find them?

Carolyn Bennett, the federal minister for Crown-Indigenous relations, and NWT MP Michael McLeod join Ollie to discuss this year's federal budget and its ramifications for the territory - plus the impact of the SNC-Lavalin affair on Indigenous representation in the Liberal government.

As mediator Vince Ready publishes his binding recommendations, the NWT's finance minister gives his analysis of the deal - and sets out lessons the government and the union can learn. Plus the Long John Jamboree's president explains why organizers chose to relocate to a parking lot for this weekend's festival.

Why Snowking's Winter Festival had to close a week early, plus Yellowknife's mayor Rebecca Alty, and Dr Nicole Redvers, author of a new book which seeks to "bridge the gap" between western and Indigenous medicine.

After a week-long Cabin Radio broadcasting workshop in Fort Simpson, members of the Nahanni Butte Dene Band discuss setting up a radio studio in their community.

An exercise in optimistic entomology: if the heat is causing chaos to humans in the NWT, what's it doing to bugs like mosquitoes and black flies?

With the NWT's record March high smashed in Nahanni Butte, Ollie is joined by an atmospheric science researcher. Plus Don Bubar says his company's mine near Blatchford Lake could open in just two years, and MLA Julie Green reviews an updated code of conduct for the NWT's politicians.

As temperatures almost 20C warmer than normal cook the NWT, Snowking's Winter Festival temporarily closes. Plus the NWT's new ombud is on the show.