It could be days before a fuel tanker carrying 9.5 million litres of diesel is dislodged from a sandbar in the Northwest Passage.

The Yukon's MLAs will return to the legislature on Sept. 21 for the fall session, a month earlier than usual, Premier Dennis Fentie has announced.

Federal NDP leader Jack Layton says Canada should assert its sovereignty over the Arctic not with military strength but with support for northern communities.

The City of Iqaluit has received federal funding to develop a 100-year vision for a more environmentally sustainable city.

Premier Ed Stelmach is scheduled to meet with the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, next Wednesday in Ottawa.

This week marks the end of the Yukon's latest forest fire season, which territorial fire officials say was about average compared to other years.

Four Greenpeace activists have been arrested after they climbed onto an oil rig off Greenland's western coast this week, trying to halt Arctic offshore drilling.

Some Yukon landlords say they're worried a new Landlord and Tenant Act may include onerous and unreasonable new rights for tenants.

A Montana bow hunter may have claimed the largest recorded mountain caribou in the Northwest Territories, which could make it one of the largest in the world.

One of the world's most luxurious private yachts made an unexpected appearance recently in the High Arctic hamlet of Pond Inlet, Nunavut, on its way through the Northwest Passage.

Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. is refuting claims by its president that he was unfairly suspended from his job over problems with his credit card account.

The Canadian government's recent effort to assert its sovereignty in the Arctic has reignited calls for a university to be created in the North.

The Yukon government has declared the former Whitehorse tank farm a contaminated site, but the property's owners say they will move ahead with plans to develop a major subdivision there.

Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach said Wednesday his government will compare newly published data from the University of Alberta with research already done by government scientists on the impact of oilsands development on the Athabasca River.

The Canadian government will not fund a clinical trial of the so-called liberation therapy for multiple sclerosis at this time, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq says.