Lewis Taman, the national events coordinator with Laurie Artiss Ltd – The Pin People stands next to the company’s pin sets for the 2026 Arctic Winter Games in Whitehorse this week. He says asking to ...

A man wearing an Arktikugol anorak walks through a blizzard in Barentsburg, on Norway’s Svalbard archipelago. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP) A giant flag of the USSR – a state that collapsed 35 years ago – ...

Prime Minister Mark Carney landed in Yellowknife on Thursday to make the defence announcement before leaving for Norway. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press) The Liberal government has unveiled a detailed ...

Yellowknife RCMP say a woman is charged with vehicle theft and other offences after a tour bus was stolen early Saturday morning. Police received a call at around 1:16 a.m. about a bus that had been ...

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Naja Pearce knows all too well what it is like to train – and compete – along with her sister.  “I think sometimes we spend a little too much time together and then we get a little bit annoyed with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...