Northern Canada: Construction of all-season road to isolated Indigenous community to begin this fall
Work on the Tlicho all-season road to Whati will begin this fall and is expected to be completed by 2022.
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Transport Canada pledges funding for permafrost research
Scientists working in Canada’s North are getting more funds to study thawing permafrost and its effects, especially when it comes
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Northern Canada: Small deficit projected in Northwest Territories budget
Money in the latest budget that’s allocated to go to five shelters in the Northwest Territories will go a long
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Northwestern Canada: Yukon gov gives up on building Dawson City ice bridge
Time and money has run out on this winter’s attempt to build an ice bridge across the Yukon River in
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Northwestern Canada: snowcat working on Dawson City ice bridge falls through river ice
Work on the Dawson City, Yukon, ice bridge has stopped after a snowcat went through the ice on the Yukon
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Winter storm to hit southern Finland
Southern Finland will receive at least 10cm of new snow by Thursday morning, predicts Yle meteorologist Joonas Koskela. He recommends
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Northwestern Canada: hopes sinking for Dawson City ice bridge, despite cold snap
You’d think making ice would be a cinch at -40 C. Not so, in Dawson City, Yukon. A $200,000 effort
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Contract awarded to build ice bridge in Dawson City, northwest Canada
The Yukon government is going to try again this winter to help Mother Nature build an ice bridge across the
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Canadian government pledges $400 million for northern transport
The federal government is set to announce funding to help improve the remote roads, airports and bridges of Canada’s North.
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Northern Canadian village hopes future road will boost tourism
If you build it, they will come. It’s a mantra that’s proven true this summer as the newly-opened Inuvik Tuktoyaktuk Highway
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Arctic Finnish firm wins US award for road maintenance technology
Technology developed by Roadscanners, a company based in Rovaniemi, Finnish Lapland that specialises in traffic infrastructure management, was recognised by
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Accidents in Finland seven times more likely in elk-crossing zones, says study
A new study examining traffic accidents involving the Eurasian elk and other members of the deer family has determined that
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U.S. Gov quietly allows land survey in Alaskan wildlife refuge, enviro groups furious
Conservation groups say the Interior Department has gone behind the public’s back and conducted a land survey in the Izembek
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Southern Canadian couple has perfect wedding on Arctic Ocean’s shores
When you think of a destination beach wedding, Tuktoyaktuk, in Canada’s Northwest Territories, might not be the first place that
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Canadian government gives giant boost to Northern highway project
The federal government has announced it is investing $102.5 million in the Northwest Territories’ Mackenzie Valley Highway project, aimed to
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