Children in Yellowknife, Dettah and Ndilǫ will be able to return to the classroom next Monday as restrictions are set to loosen by the end of the week. Health officials made the announcement on Wednesday, that restrictions in those communities will be loosening at 5 p.m. on Friday due to…
Norma Zoe says she is living every parent’s worst nightmare. She spoke with CKLB over the phone on Monday afternoon while sitting in an Edmonton hospital beside her 13-year-old daughter Julissa Mantla, who has a severe case of COVID-19. “She wants to go home,” Zoe says, “if I could, I…
The community of Behchokǫ̀ has experienced another tragedy as a man in his 30’s passed away Friday afternoon. Very few details on the situation are available. CKLB’s Marie Rose Blackduck is in the community and said an ambulance rushed to a man whose heart stopped. Medical staff were unable to…
A deceased 29-year-old man was found after a search and rescue operation near Behchokǫ̀. According to an RCMP press release, police received a call around 4:30 p.m. on July 17 that a man had entered the water under the bridge by Frank’s Channel. Police began searching the shoreline by vehicle…
Today is voting day for the Tłı̨chǫ community government elections. Here is the full list of candidates for chief and council in Behchokǫ̀, Whatì, Gamètì and Wekweètì. CKLB spoke with the chief candidates for Behchokǫ̀, Whatì, Gamètì and Wekweètì about their policies. CKLB will publish the results once released.
Power is temporarily restored in Behchoko` after a single vehicle collision led to an outage early Tuesday morning. Behchoko` Chief Clifford Daniels says the damaged pole was on the access road. Doug Prendergast, a spokesperson for the NTPC, says the pole has been removed and power restored. But there will…
Some Elders in Behchokǫ̀ have received cellphones from the RCMP in case of emergencies, but many details on the program are unclear. About a month ago while visiting her 85-year-old mother Dorothy Liske found her holding a flip phone. Liske says her mother explained the RCMP had given phones to…
Steven Ronald Theriault will be spending the next four years and three months in prison for a fatal collision that took the life of a 21-year-old mother. He was sentenced to six and a half years for the incident, but had approximately 15 months removed from his sentence for time…
The Tłı̨chǫ Government held a five-day language revitalization course in Behchokǫ̀ in March, in partnership with the University of Victoria (UVic). The course offered at the Kǫ̀ Gocho Sportsplex Centre — called LING 159 — goes towards the Certificate in Indigenous Language Revitalization (CILR). Mary Siemens and Alice E. Rabesca…
According to her family, Marguerite Lafferty always knew she was going to make it to 100. This year, Lafferty had to do things a little differently in order to celebrate her birthday safely. Unfortunately, due to COVID-19 restrictions, the Lafferty family and other members of the community were unable to…