Whitehorse residents and travellers react to high gas prices
Gas prices in Whitehorse have climbed almost 30 cents a litre over the past two weeks. Massive jumps have been
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Alaska
Oil companies shun Trump administration’s Alaska offshore auction
Oil and gas drillers failed to show up at the Trump administration’s sale of more than 400,000 hectares in Alaska’s
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Alaska Natives welcome new state limits to protect chum salmon
The Alaska Board of Fisheries is cutting chum salmon fishing by 30 per cent in southwest Alaska. Alaskan Native communities,
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Whitehorse gears up for the 2026 Arctic Winter Games
For Arctic Winter Games organizers, like host society president Tracey Bilsky, this is crunch time. After months of preparation, the
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Alaska’s ‘Superbowl’ of dog mushing, the Iditarod, set to run its normal northern route
By Ava White The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is less than a month away and set to run on its
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U.S. gov’t one step closer to expanding oil and gas leases in ANWR
By Tori Fitzpatrick Vuntut Gwitchin and CPAWS Yukon denounce call for nominations for Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program
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Bear-cam collars reveal grizzlies’ lives on Alaska’s North Slope
The life of one of the most remote grizzly bear populations in the world is being documented by the animals
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Military helicopters over B.C., Alberta, Alaska, Yukon as part of Canada-U.S. training exercise
By Andrew Kurjata Exercise STRIKING BAT also sees Canadian forces working alongside Norway, Italy and Mongolia Canadian Armed Forces helicopters
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Democrats say Peltola can win Alaska’s U.S. Senate seat. Really, though?
National Democrats cheered when former Alaska Congresswoman Mary Peltola announced on Monday that she’s challenging U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan. Peltola,
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Mary Peltola, barrier-breaking ex-Alaska congresswoman, launches U.S. Senate bid
By Becky Bohrer and Mark Thiessen Democrat to challenge Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan on cost-of-living issues in key midterm race
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Heaviest snowfall in decades increases avalanche risk near Haines, Alaska
By Isabella Calissi Nearly 2 metres of snow fell last week in Haines, the most in one week since records
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Lawsuit challenges the approval of an exploratory drilling program in Alaska petroleum reserve
Conservation groups and an Iñupiat-aligned group sued Thursday to overturn the recent approval of an exploratory drilling program in the
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Gwich’in want Carney to advocate for protecting caribou, oppose Trump’s Alaska oil plans
AFN delegates resolve to pressure prime minister to protect key northern food source The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) has
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Alaskan tribes sue B.C. gov’t over mines in far northwest
By Andrew Kurjata, Hanna Petersen Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission says impacts and rights don’t stop at border A group of
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Congress approves measure to overturn Biden-era plan for Alaska petroleum reserve
Congress has passed a measure to overturn a plan enacted during the Biden administration that put off limits to oil
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