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Whatì Placed on Evacuation Alert as Crews Tackle N.W.T. Wildfire; Regional Courts, Councils and Teams Log Key Updates

Forecast winds could push flames toward Whatì, prompting evacuation readiness.

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Pinch-runner Jonathan Arsenault, 9, races home to score the game-winning run in the bottom of the seventh inning to lift the Charlottetown Gaudet’s Auto Body Islanders to a 9-8 win over British Columbia on Aug. 23. The win against British Columbia clinched second place in Pool B for the Islanders, who will play for a medal at the 2025 Baseball Canada national senior men’s championship in Regina on Aug. 24.
The Sydney Blue Jays will represent Nova Scotia at the Atlantic Under-18 'AA' Baseball Championship in Moncton this weekend after the club claimed the provincial title earlier this month. Members of the team are shown with the championship banner. Front row, from left, Dylan Lesnick and Brayden Tubrett. Middle row, from left, Avery Morellato, Keiran Madden, Troy Corbett, Shane Viva, Colby Meade, Cole Murphy and Lincoln LeBlanc (ball boy). Back row, from left, Mike Marsh (coach), Matthew MacIntyre, William Stonehouse, Blake Confiant, Andrew (Gunner) Leblanc, Kayden Connolly, Kingston Leporte, Devon Sampson (coach) and Marcus Meade (coach). CONTRIBUTED/MARCUS MEADE
Construction work continues on a second 10-unit public housing complex in north-end Saint John.

Overview

  • Officials say the territory’s top-priority fire was about eight kilometres southwest of Whatì on Thursday, with helicopters conducting bucket drops, sprinklers set up around the community and a water barrier built along the lone road out.
  • Authorities identified Behchokǫ́ as the host community if an evacuation is ordered, while drivers on parts of Highway 3 face extreme conditions and Environment Canada warns of very high health-risk air quality.
  • RCMP reported two sentences in the 2021 Rivière-Verte homicide: Benjamin Côté received life in prison with no parole for 14.5 years and Angie Leclerc received 10 years.
  • Campbellton will hold a Sept. 8 public meeting on a new municipal plan that could allow more downtown apartments, following a recent exception for a three-storey, 30-unit project and ahead of an October PRAC review.
  • Charlottetown Gaudet’s Auto Body Islanders won the national senior men’s baseball championship on Aug. 24 with an 8-1 win over Quebec after travel disruptions from an Air Canada strike, and the Cape Breton Eagles finalized a 25-player QMJHL roster with season openers on Sept. 19 and Sept. 26.