The community along the West Channel village in Hay River will be safer from floods after an investment of more than $1.1 million from the federal government.
Announced by MP Michael McLeod and Mayor Kandis Jameson, this project will mitigate.
N.W.T. Fire says that strong south-southwest winds could push the fire threatening Hay River and K'átł'odeeche First Nation a "significant distance" north toward Great Slave Lake over the course of Sunday.