Whitehorse experienced its wettest winter on record this season with more than two-and-a-half times as much precipitation as the seasonal average, says Environment Canada. It was just one of many ...
In the dead of winter, seeing the military in an Arctic hamlet of 1,200 people is provoking anxiety for some residents in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. The Canadian Armed Forces are in Cambridge Bay for the ...
Athletes might be the stars of the show, but the Arctic Winter Games can't escape politics. For example, the games kicked off with the flyover of a CF-18 fighter jet at the opening ceremony in ...
The Yukon government announced this week it is splitting the mines part of the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources into two new branches: major mines and mineral exploration.  It said the goal ...
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Oil and gas drillers failed to show up at the Trump administration's sale of more than 400,000 ‌hectares in Alaska's Cook Inlet on Wednesday, declining to submit even a single bid. The sale was the ...
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Out in the distance in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, 15-year-old Sophia Johnston heard a familiar sound — a team of sled dogs barking. Johnston knows her team of nine Siberian-mix dogs is anxious for her ...
Some Arctic security analysts say one thing that's not talked about enough when it comes to Canada's sovereignty in the North is intelligence. Phil Gurski is a consultant and a former Canadian ...
The Alaska Board of Fisheries is cutting chum salmon fishing by 30 per cent in southwest Alaska. Alaskan Native communities, who have been facing increasing food insecurity from lack of salmon in the ...
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By Saloni Bhugra Money part of larger $375M federal and private fund to be distributed over 10 years Indigenous governments in the N.W.T. received a $21.6 million grant to help care for lands and ...