Advocates want more firefighters at Yellowknife’s airport, meeting international standards
By Nadeer Hashmi The chair of an airport safety advocacy organization wants to see more firefighters stationed at Yellowknife’s airport.
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Orcas moved into the Arctic. It could be bad news for other whales, and humans too
Killer whales are expanding their territory and have moved into Arctic waters as climate change melts sea ice, with two
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Watson Lake, Yukon, residents take to the streets to sing holiday classics
Nothing says it’s the holiday season more than a group of carollers and in Watson Lake, Yukon, some residents fully
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‘You can’t miss it’: Elder’s glowing house helps brighten the holidays in Dawson City, Yukon
The spirit of the season is strong in Dawson City, Yukon — and Jim Bob Titus’s house has a lot
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Young mammoth remains discovered in Siberian permafrost after roughly 50,000 years
Researchers in Siberia are conducting tests on a juvenile mammoth whose remarkably well-preserved remains were discovered in thawing permafrost after
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How do reindeer fly? How does Santa deliver gifts? NORAD answers kids’ Christmas questions
He’s not deterred by wind, or snow, or rain, and he doesn’t file a flight plan, but that doesn’t mean
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Arctic Bay, Nunavut, expected to receive federal funding in 2025 to build small craft harbour
By Samuel Wat Arctic Bay, Nunavut, is expecting to receive federal money to build a small craft harbour in 2025,
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‘I think he deserves it’: Trump suggests reverting Denali to Mount McKinley
President-elect Donald Trump is again threatening to revert the name of North America’s tallest peak from Denali to Mount McKinley,
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Singing the stories of Labrador: An Inuit choir shares language and culture
By Amanda Gear Every year at Christmas, a choir comes together in St. John’s to celebrate centuries-old traditions and music
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Trump again calls to buy Greenland after eyeing Canada and the Panama Canal
First it was Canada, then the Panama Canal. Now, Donald Trump again wants Greenland. The president-elect is renewing unsuccessful calls
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These young northerners are pushing the N.W.T. to do more about climate change
Members of the N.W.T. Climate Change Youth Council have spent the last year and a half adding their voices to
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A former park ranger’s new book documents decades of climate change in Arctic Alaska
The Arctic is one of the areas most visibly impacted by human-caused climate change, with some areas becoming almost unrecognizable
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Foreign tourists on bus involved in fatal crash in Lapland
Thursday afternoon’s accident claimed two lives. Two people died after a tourist bus and a passenger van collided in Lapland
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Feds, Yukon gov’t announce $2.4M to spur heat pump uptake
By Gabrielle Plonka Territory aims to build 1,300 smart electric heating systems by 2030 The Yukon government is launching a
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Alaska governor asks Trump to roll back restrictions on oil and gas drilling
By Becky Bohrer Gov. Mike Dunleavy pushes for ‘critical agency actions that would restore opportunity to Alaska’ Alaska Gov. Mike
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