A Fort Good Hope man has been found guilty of manslaughter in the death of Lloyd Edgi in that Sahtu community in 2017. 26-year-old Colten McNeely was convicted in Supreme Court in Yellowknife Tuesday. He was initially charged with murder after stabbing the 28 year old Edgi in the chest…
Friends and family in the Sahtú, and across the Northwest Territories, are mourning the death and celebrating the life of highly-respected and beloved Elder Therese Pierrot. Her son Ronald Pierrot says Therese was 85-years old when she died peacefully of natural causes on Tuesday at the long-term healthcare facility in…
Colten McNeely will have to wait two more months to learn his fate. McNeely, from the Sahtu community of Fort Good Hope, is charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of Lloyd Edgi in September of 2017. The 26-year old McNeely was to get a verdict from the judge…
A Fort Good Hope man has been sentenced to five years in a southern penitentiary after he pleaded guilty to attacking a couple with an axe in that Sahtu community in 2018. Christopher Shae, 49, bowed his head as he was sentenced for aggravated assault in Supreme Court in Yellowknife…
Edwin Erutse knows the delay to signing an establishment agreement for the Ts’udé Nilįné Tuyeta protected area is far from ideal. Erustse, the president of the Yamoga Land Corporation, and other community leaders in Fort Good Hope were criticized earlier this week for delaying the agreement after the community approved…
Updated August 30, 2019 to reflect the answers of the Government of the Northwest Territories. When it comes to Fort Good Hope’s ongoing self-government negotiations, there’s still a “large gap” between the community and the Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT), says Chief Negotiator Daniel T’Seleie. For now, that means…
A little over a month since being elected, Fort Good Hope Chief Daniel Masuzumi is pushing for the community administration to be more accountable. The election of a new council kicked off an audit on the community’s finances. Since then, Masuzumi said the band office is “conducting an evaluation of…
A Fort Good Hope man has abandoned his right to a trial and has pleaded guilty to aggravated assault after an attack on two people in the Sahtu community last September. Christopher Shae, 49, appeared in Supreme Court in Yellowknife Monday where he re-elected to be sentenced by judge alone…
Daniel Masuzumi was elected on Monday, taking over from Wilfred McNeely Jr. Here’s what Masuzumi wants to get done first. He added that homelessness was another issue he wants to tackle, saying he wanted to offer better support for people to get out of poverty. That also means looking for…
Louisa Lafferty, the Fort Good Hope mother of murder victim Charlotte Lafferty is planning a public grief, healing and trauma session in the fall. Her announcement comes two weeks after her daughter Charlotte Lafferty’s killer, Keenan McNeely, had his appeal of his conviction quashed by the Northwest Territories Court of…