Harley Minakis and his family were travelling home from a trip to Costa Rica for a wedding. Their return involved a short layover in Houston, Texas before catching a flight to Toronto. That's when Minakis, who is Gwich'in, says he was detained at the airport by US border agents. Here's the story.

Plus: how two NWT jerseys ended up being worn by Connor McDavid, and why the Northern Journalism Training Initiative is closing.

Sydney Galusha and Brynn Chorostkowski are 16. Ella Skauge is 17. They are three fifths of the NWT's Team Kaufman at Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the women's curling national championship that starts on Friday. Meet the team here.

What can Yellowknife and the NWT learn from the Nordic countries about defence and emergencies? Ambassadors from Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland and Finland were in the territorial capital this week.

Plus AFN National Chief Cindy Woodhouse condemns Trump over Greenland as she opens the Dene National Assembly in Fort Good Hope, and we'll hear some of Prime Minister Mark Carney's World Economic Forum speech that resonated worldwide on the same day.

And the new chair of the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation will be Erwin Elias. Hear a little of his pitch to voters this week.

The NWT's MP joins Ollie to preview 2026, walk us through her priorities and discuss how Canada should be responding to US threats toward Greenland.

Plus Janet Dean explains why her Territorial Agri-food Association has decided Yellowknife needs a new coffee festival. And if you hadn't previously heard of civet coffee... well, you might be surprised.

Kenny Ruptash has had about eight months as chair of Aurora College's board of governors. What does he want the college to achieve this year? Should it move its Yellowknife campus to a downtown mall? What about its Inuvik and Fort Smith campuses? And will it ever become a polytechnic university as planned? He joined us to talk about those topics.

Plus Yellowknife's mayor and city manager take questions after City Hall announced elevated lead levels had been found in the water at some municipal facilities.

A compilation album being released this month promises to unite 30 bands from the past 30 years of NWT music history. Tyler WhiteKeyes tells us more.

Plus: If someone sent you a voice note in Finnish, how would you dance to that? A Yellowknifer and a Thai-Norwegian are at the Northern Arts and Cultural Centre, figuring out the answer.

Air Tindi president Chris Reynolds walks us through how the airline responded to a crash that investigators say highlighted a problematic safety culture. The investigation report came out this week. Reynolds said big changes have been made since the accident.

And Dian Papineau-Magill looks back at CKHR, the Hay River community radio station, which is no more. After years off the air, the CRTC has revoked CKHR's licence at its own request. The station was nearly 50 years old.

It's 10 years since Brenda Dragon started Aurora Heat, a Fort Smith-based firm making beaver fur hand warmers and related products.

A decade on, the company is targeting people with chilly hands across the continent. Here's how. (Plus: Brenda describes how she's dealing with the stigma fur still attracts in places online.)