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Featured, Law courts, News October 24, 2022

Chief’s daughter bails out accused Yellowknife shooter

McCauley has been released on bail and is now living in Colville Lake

The Chief of the Behdzi Ahda First Nation, Wilbert Kochon, says his community is becoming a hub for accused criminals and admits his daughter recently helped a woman charged with attempted murder to get out of jail. The accused is Hilah Rose McCauley. The former Norman Wells resident was 19…

Featured, News August 24, 2021

Colville Lake leadership staying calm as community navigates outbreak

Colville Lake’s chief says the best thing he can do for the community is prevent panicking. Behdzi Ahda First Nation (Colville Lake) has 74 active cases of COVID-19. As the community continues to navigate the outbreak, Chief Wilbert Kochon says he had some good news on Monday. “We just went…

Featured, News August 19, 2021

Colville Lake hit hard by COVID as cases keep rising

Around a third of the population of Colville Lake has tested positive for COVID-19, according to the latest numbers from the territorial government. A press release says 55 people have tested positive in the community that has a population of 151. Colville Lake has the lowest vaccination rate in the…

Community, Featured, Life Style, News November 17, 2020

SRRB decides community plans should lead caribou conservation in Sahtú region

The Sahtú Renewable Resources Board recently decided to replace the Total Allowable Harvest system with community conservation plans.

What is the most effective way to conserve caribou? According to a recent report from the Ɂehdzo Got’ı̨nę Gots’ę́ Nákedı (Sahtú Renewable Resources Board), the answer is to let communities take the lead. The board decided to do away with Total Allowable Harvest (TAH) restrictions in favour of community conservation…

Community, Featured, News March 20, 2020

Colville Lake community members heading out on the land during COVID-19 pandemic

Chief Wilbert Kochon of Colville Lake is helping community members with supplies to prepare them to head out on the land during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We are planning to go out on the land and we are helping people in our community with gas and groceries in preparation,” Chief Kochon…

Community, Featured, News, Politics February 19, 2020

‘We want to get the work done’: Colville Lake asks GNWT to leave self-government negotiations

Community leaders in Colville Lake are asking the Government of the Northwest Territories to step away from self-government negotiations. “Rather than talking we want to get the work done,” says David Cozi, president of the Ayoni Keh Land Corporation. Codzi and Behdzi Adha’ First Nation Chief Wilbert Kochon recently sent…

Community, Environment, Events, Featured, News January 20, 2020

Caribou conservation and management meetings to be held in Colville Lake this week

The Sahtú Renewable Resources Board (SRRB) is holding a hearing or “Public Listening Session” in Colville Lake on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week to look at the most effective way to approach caribou harvesting and address conservation pressures on the caribou herds in the region. According to a news…

Community, Featured, Law courts, News September 4, 2019

Fort Good Hope man testifies at preliminary hearing for man charged with leaving him a quadrapalegic after altercation

It was a day of sad, dramatic and at times difficult testimony to listen to as a preliminary hearing was held in Yellowknife Wednesday for a man left a quadriplegic in an incident last year in the Sahtu community of Colville Lake. Eddy Cook Jr., 56, from Fort Good Hope,…

Community, Featured, News August 19, 2019

Colville Lake mourns death of 18-year-old killed in ATV crash Saturday

The Sahtu community of Colville Lake is in mourning after an 18-year-old man was killed when an all-terrain vehicle he was riding crashed in the community on Saturday morning. In an email to CKLB Monday afternoon, RCMP state Mounties in nearby Fort Good Hope received the call about 7:15 a.m….