Fourteen more cases of COVID-19 were reported on Wednesday, including one in Tulita. Additionally two Yellowknife high school students have tested positive, one attends École St. Patrick High School and another who attends École Sir John Franklin School. “The two cases are unrelated and the infections were not acquired at…
The arrival of 44 paddlers from Délı̨nę was the highlight of Tulita’s Treaty 11 commemoration. The group was spread across four canoes. The majority were youth, some who had never paddled before. They’re first experience was an overnight trip down Bear River. On Thursday evening, hundreds of Tulita residents stood…
Residents in the Hamlet of Tulita are being cautious given the up-river flooding in Dehcho communities. Interim senior administrative officer Don Smetlzer said that the hamlet’s Elders meeting has been postponed until May 20th. Tulita’s 24-hour flood watch began on May 7 and, in addition to water levels in Tulita,…
(UPDATE) Two men, one from the Sahtu community of Tulita, the other from Fort Smith have been charged with child pornography offences. Police say the two cases are not connected. According to a news release from the Mounties, back on September 16, Fort Simpson RCMP, with the help of Tulita…
The territorial government’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) is reporting that at least ten problem bears have been put down by their officers and private citizens in several communities in the Northwest Territories over the past week. ENR spokesperson Meagan Wohlberg told CKLB Monday afternoon that three grizzly…
A spokesperson from the NWT Department of Environment and Natural Resources says a grizzly bear and a black bear have both been killed near where a man was killed in a bear attack last Thursday, not far from the Sahtu community of Tulita. Meanwhile, the NWT Chief Coroner says the…
RCMP have confirmed they have found the body of a man who was fatally attacked by a grizzly bear near the Sahtu community of Tulita. CKLB extends condolences to the man’s family and friends and also acknowledges the difficult task done by searchers who found the man’s body Friday afternoon….
RCMP have now confirmed they are investigating a report of a bear encounter near the Sahtu community of Tulita as well as a missing person. Police state in a news release that at approximately 7:45 am, Thursday, RCMP received a signal from an emergency communications device. The location was about…
A young man from the Sahtu community of Tulita has been sentenced to four months in jail for offering a bribe to a woman he’d been charged with sexually assaulting to not testify against him. Stuart Campbell, 26, received his punishment in a Yellowknife courtroom on Monday, at which time…