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All-season road project linking Northwest Territories and Nunavut in Northern Canada gets first major funding

14 August 201914 August 2019 CBC News 1 Comment mining, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, NWT, roads, transport

The Canadian and N.W.T. governments announced $40 million in funding Wednesday toward pre-construction work on an all-season road that would

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Northern Canada Highway to get facelift

26 July 201926 July 2019 Kaila Jefferd-Moore, CBC News 0 Comments highway, Infrastructure, North Klondike Highway, roads, Yukon

The North Klondike Highway, which winds from Whitehorse to Dawson City, in Arctic Canada, is getting a facelift. The funding,

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Thirsty elks will seek water during heatwave in Finland, motorists warned

26 July 2019 Yle News 0 Comments elk, Finland, heatwave, Pyhäjärvi Lake, roads, Säkylä, summer

The police department of Southwestern Finland warns people driving in the region of wandering elk that may cross roads unexpectedly

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U.S. government signs new land swap for Alaskan wildlife refuge road

25 July 2019 Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Alaska, conservation, Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, King Cove, roads, Wildife

U.S. Interior Department has already signed a new land swap agreement for a King Cove road, southwestern Alaska, days after

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Large wildfires in Yukon, northwestern Canada threaten highway

11 July 2019 CBC News 0 Comments Dawson City, forest fires, roads, wildfires, Yukon

Fire crews are battling a pair of major wildfires on the North Klondike Highway near Dawson City that are creating

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Helsinki-Tallinn tunnel deal set to be inked with Chinese construction company

9 July 20199 July 2019 Yle News 0 Comments China, Helsinki, Infrastructure, Peter Vesterbacka, roads, Tallinn

The Finland to Estonia undersea rail tunnel project led by businessman Peter Vesterbacka has taken a step forward. He announced

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Murmansk supports building new road connection to Finland

28 June 201928 June 2019 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments borders, Kovdor, Murmansk, roads, Savukoski

Cross-border traffic and trade are down, but regional authorities in Murmansk still want to build a new road and border-crossing

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Northwestern Canada: How a changing Yukon River is reshaping an age-old ice bridge

18 June 2019 Meagan Deuling and Jonathan Ore, CBC Radio 0 Comments climate change, Dawson City, ice bridge, roads, transport, Yukon, Yukon River

The residents of Dawson City, in northwestern Canada, have an intimate relationship with the Yukon River. It’s why settlers first

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Northern hiring targets up to 75% for all-season road project in Canada’s Northwest Territories

14 June 2019 Richard Gleeson, CBC News 0 Comments construction, employment, Infrastructure, jobs, Northwest Territories, NWT, roads, Whati

The Northwest Territories government, in Northern Canada, has revealed northern hiring targets it’s setting for the construction and operation of

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Northern Alberta wildfire cuts rail link between Canada’s Northwest Territories and the South

31 May 201931 May 2019 Alex Brockman, CBC News 0 Comments Alberta, forest fires, Northwest Territories, NWT, rail, roads, Steen River, supply, transport, wildfires

A key bridge on the railroad used for shipping diesel fuel to the Northwest Territories (Canadian central Arctic) is damaged,

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Wildfire in Northern Canada: Railway bridge burns, road link between Alberta and Northwest Territories closed

30 May 201930 May 2019 CBC News 0 Comments Alberta, forest fires, Northwest Territories, NWT, rail, roads, Steen River, wildfires

The CN Rail railway bridge at Steen River, in northern Alberta, has burned down. Jonathan Abecassis, a spokesperson for CN

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Government in Northern Canada encourages drivers to avoid squashing at-risk toad species

21 May 2019 Alex Brockman, CBC News 0 Comments endangered species, Northwest Territories, NWT, roads, toads, wildlife

Drivers heading out on the Liard Highway — Hwy. 7 in the Northwest Territories, in Canada’s central Arctic — may

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Snowfall causing problems for motorists in central Finland

9 April 20199 April 2019 Yle News 0 Comments Central Finland, Jyväskylä, roads, weather

On Monday morning the Finnish Meteorological Institute reported a dusting of snow cover at its Tikkakoski weather station in Jyväskylä,

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Longread – Guardian of the road in Northern Canada

4 April 20195 April 2019 John Last, CBC News 0 Comments ice roads, Northwest Territories, NWT, roads, transport

Mickey Hempler has kept drivers safe on a remote northern winter road for two decades — but he won’t be

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Boost in federal infrastructure fund ‘huge’ for Canada’s northern municipalities

21 March 2019 CBC News 0 Comments budget, climate change, Infrastructure, roads, transport

Snow has been melting fast in Yukon, northwestern Canada this week, and Tara Wheeler says that can really do a

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