The Inuit goverment in Labrador has bought a controlling stake in an airline that provides many of the flights in the region.

Starting Thursday, two astronauts aboard the International Space Station will photograph the aurora borealis and beam the images back to Earth as part of the AuroraMAX project.

A coroner's inquest into the 2009 death of Adamie Nuturalak will take place in Iqaluit next month. Nuturalak died while in police custody.

The family of a 14-year-old boy found dead off the coast of northern Labarador are asking why the Canadian Forces waited to look for their son due to weather when a private helicopter was able to land on the scene in the same conditions.

An exhibit of photos taken by Arctic explorer Roald Amundsen opened at the Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum in Iqaluit this week.

Twenty four mushers depart Fairbanks, Alaska, Saturday at noon PT for this year's Yukon Quest International sled dog race.

A military vehicle involved with Exercise Arctic Ram, taking place later this month in the Northwest Territories, turned over on Highway 3 Friday near Behchoko.

Whitehorse RCMP are looking for 12-year-old Brady Ford, who left a group home Monday and has not returned.

Monthly water testing is part of a new $50 million 'world class' federal-provincial environmental monitoring plan for the Alberta oilsands.

Family and friends from across Canada were in Whitehorse Saturday to remember five people who died of what is believed to be carbon monoxide poisoning.

A Paulatuk, N.W.T., man was sentenced in Yellowknife Thursday to nearly one year in jail for sexually assaulting his common-law wife's daughter.

On Sunday Iqaluit RCMP seized more than seven kilograms of marijuana hidden in empty boxes of snacks in a passenger's luggage.

The South Klondike highway and the Haines road are closed and portions of the Mayo road are treacherous due to freezing rain mixed with snow in Yukon.

A mother and two children died in a house fire in Taloyoak, Nunavut, Thursday night.

N.W.T. Premier Bob McLeod says the Gwich'in Tribal Council's lawsuit over the territory's devolution agreement-in-principle came as no surprise to him.

The federal fisheries minister is encouraging all members of parliament to show their support for Canada's embattled sealing industry by wearing a lapel pin made from seal fur.

Former students of native residential schools say they are being mistreated by some lawyers who are supposed to help them claim federal compensation.

A top defence department official says the federal government has launched an investigation into a search that recovered the body of a 14-year-old Labrador snowmobiler who was missing since Sunday.

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The NWT Mine Training Society is rolling out a new workshop aimed at guiding people into a job in the mining sector. Two teams that bounced back from losing their opening games faced off in the finals of the Fort Simpson Merchant's Mixed Bonspiel, ...

Opposition leader, Liz Hanson from the Yukon NDP, said the ruling Yukon Party government is punishing the territory's ombudsman for doing her job.