The wreckage of a small plane that had been missing since Saturday was found Thursday morning southeast of Norman Wells, N.W.T., a Canadian Forces spokesman has confirmed.

NDP Leader Jack Layton says he's prepared to sit down with Prime Minister Stephen Harper to reach a compromise on saving the mandatory long-form census.

Parks Canada archeologists who found HMS Investigator, a British naval ship that was stranded in the Northwest Passage 155 years ago, are equally pleased to have discovered the graves of three of the ship's crew.

A new report by 300 scientists has flagged the past decade as the hottest on record and compiled 10 'unmistakable' indicators the world is getting warmer. But the scientists mostly stayed away from discussions about the cause.

Nunavut Chief Justice Robert Kilpatrick says Nunavut's four judges are overworked and overwhelmed and he's asking the federal government for two more.

A number of major roads connecting Yukon to its neighbours are closed.

Temporary reprieves have been won for two Filipino men facing deportation, says Alex Furlong, president of the Yukon Federation of Labour.

The number of aboriginal people in high-ranking jobs in the Northwest Territories government has gone down since 2003, despite an affirmative action hiring policy, says Human Resources Minister Bob McLeod.

Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on residential schools is inviting submissions of art work that relates to experiences at the schools, or to the legacy of those experiences.

It looks like Alaska won't meet its treaty obligation to ensure 42,000 chinook salmon enter Canada in the Yukon River this year, but the First Nation fishery is going ahead as planned, Fisheries and Oceans manager Frank Quinn says.

A ship abandoned in the Arctic more than 150 years ago while searching for Sir John Franklin's expedition has been found.

Yukon MLA and former NDP leader Todd Hardy has died at age 53 after a long fight with leukemia.

Microscopic marine algae called phytoplankton that produce half the world's oxygen and support most ocean life have been declining dramatically over the past century, Canadian researchers say.

Missing Mayo RCMP Const. Michael Potvin is presumed to have drowned, says the force's chief in Yukon.

The Yukon government is appealing an order to increase funding to the Francophone School Board.

A study of Iqaluit's permafrost by scientists from Natural Resources Canada will help the city develop a plan to deal with climate change.

Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell has declared the condition of the Taylor Highway a state disaster.

Weather conditions are ideal for survival and for the search for an American piloting a Beechcraft A36 Bonanza who has been missing since Saturday, a Canadian Forces spokesman says.

Yukon Federation of Labour president Alex Furlong will ask federal Immigration Minister Jason Kenney to allow Francis Dura to stay in Canada.

The executive director of the Nunavut Research Institute says there is no evidence that seismic testing in Lancaster Sound will have any impact on the environment.