Lawyers for an Nunavut Inuit group went to court Thursday, hoping to stop federal scientists from conducting seismic tests in Lancaster Sound, which is considered an ecologically rich area.

Yukon Energy Corp. says it is encouraged by preliminary findings in its search for geothermal energy sources.

A new proposal to save the dwindling Bathurst caribou herd in the Northwest Territories suggests replacing the current hunting ban with a target number of caribou that can be hunted.

Southern Canadians are unlikely to see the aurora borealis again this week, after a second cloud of solar particles barely grazed the Earth.

Improving aboriginal education is one major issue Canada's provincial and territorial premiers are tackling as they meet with native leaders in Churchill, Man.

Unique Inuit carvings that depict some of the earliest court cases in Canada's North have been locked away for over a decade, for lack of a safe place to display them.

Nunavut RCMP and at least one MLA say tighter controls are needed on the flow of alcohol being flown to remote communities, after a recent influx to one hamlet led to a surge in crime there.

Residents in Upper Liard, Yukon, are being warned to prepare themselves in case they must evacuate their homes, as a large forest fire grows near the Yukon-B.C. border.

More than 700 people filled Saint Patrick's Basilica in downtown Ottawa for the memorial service of a local RCMP constable who died on duty in Yukon.

Yukon NDP leader Elizabeth Hanson says she will seek her party's nomination in the Whitehorse Centre riding, which has been vacant since former NDP leader Todd Hardy died last week.

A 16-year-old girl reported missing on Sunday has been located and is in no danger, Yukon RCMP say.

An Ottawa memorial service will be held Wednesday for RCMP Const. Michael Potvin, who died in Yukon last month when the boat he was in capsized.

A Nunavut Inuit organization is taking federal scientists to court in an attempt to stop them from conducting seismic tests for potential oil and gas resources in Lancaster Sound.

Yukon forest fire officials have ordered their firefighters and air tanker crews to come back from British Columbia, where they had been helping battle wildfires there last week.

Canadian officials have yet to decide what to do with the wreck of HMS Investigator, the 19th-century British naval ship that was recently discovered in Canadian Arctic waters.

Toronto-based Kinross Gold Corp. shares have fallen the day after the company announced a $7.1-billion deal to buy all the shares of Red Back Mining of Vancouver it doesn't already own.

Two solar storms are pushing the aurora borealis into southern parts of Canada, but unfortunately, the current storm peaked before nightfall in Eastern Canada.

Whitehorse city council will soon have to decide whether to adopt the city's updated official community plan.

Three major oil companies are teaming up to someday explore for oil and gas in a large area of the Beaufort Sea, where each company has millions of dollars in exploration leases.

RCMP in the Yukon village of Mayo have recovered the body of Const. Michael Potvin, who went missing near a boat launch when a police boat capsized last month.