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February 18, 2024
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.
October 16, 2023
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.
September 1, 2023
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.
August 26, 2023
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
August 23, 2023
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.
July 26, 2023
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.
July 25, 2023
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.
February 24, 2023
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.
February 24, 2023
YELLOWKNIFE — The federal government is committing more than $2.4 million to create 30 new apprenticeships in the Northwest Territories' Tlicho region.
February 23, 2023
YELLOWKNIFE — The federal government is committing more than $2.4 million to create 30 new apprenticeships in the Northwest Territories' Tlicho region.