The Inuvik Tuktoyaktuk Highway opens on Wednesday. The $300 million road project took about four years to complete, but has been on the minds of some for decades. Since road construction began, companies that were planning offshore development in the Beaufort Sea announced they were indefinitely delaying those plans. Construction on the Inuvik Tuktoyaktuk Highway in 2015. Premier Bob McLeod — will assemble in Inuvik for the official opening of the Inuvik Tuktoyaktuk Highway, and make the first official drive to Tuktoyaktuk where a community feast will mark the end of the community's rugged isolation.

Source: CBC News November 15, 2017 12:00 UTC