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A 16-year-old girl in Behchokǫ̀, N.W.T., describes her arrest by RCMP earlier this month, captured on video, as aggressive and unnecessary. Police say the girl had punched an officer.

The stage has been set for a conservation boom in the Northwest Territories with a signed framework agreement between the territorial and Indigenous governments and private philanthropies.

Despite still being in a state of recovery, the community is nonetheless welcoming evacuees from Yellowknife, Dettah, Ndilǫ, and other regions as wildfires have forced two-thirds of the territory's residents to evacuate their homes. 

Ninety-five per cent of the Yellowknife area was evacuated last week, while people living in Hay River, Fort Smith and Enterprise have now been out of their homes for two

The Tłı̨chǫ government is working to track down citizens who were sent all over western Canada when Yellowknife was evacuated due to a wildfire last week.

N.W.T. Fire issued an update Wednesday morning confirming the fire burned down three houses in Rae. Strong winds are expected to keep pushing the fire toward Behchokǫ Wednesday.

Strong winds over the next two days are expected to push a wildfire closer to Behchokǫ̀. The community issued an evacuation order Monday evening. The Tłı̨chǫ government said on social media about 850 of the community’s 2,000 residents left for Yellowknife. 

The new Tlicho Trades Apprenticeship program in the N.W.T. will pair 30 first-year apprentices to small and medium sized businesses in the region over the next two years.

YELLOWKNIFE — The federal government is committing more than $2.4 million to create 30 new apprenticeships in the Northwest Territories' Tlicho region.

YELLOWKNIFE — The federal government is committing more than $2.4 million to create 30 new apprenticeships in the Northwest Territories' Tlicho region.