The Edmonton man accused of killing an RCMP officer in Hay River, N.W.T., in 2007 plotted to silence a witness afterward, a jury in Yellowknife heard Friday.

Dr. John O'Connor has been cleared of the last of four complaints laid by Health Canada during his tenure as a fly-in doctor in Fort Chipewyan, Alta.

Workers coming from other parts of Canada to work in the Northwest Territories' three diamond mines are not eligible to get the swine flu shot from territorial health officials, who are giving N.W.T. residents first priority.

Whitehorse city officials are looking for ways to lower the costs of shipping old cellphones, computers and other electronic waste out of the Yukon.

Some First Nations governments near the Dempster Highway are unhappy with the Yukon government's new hunting restrictions for the Porcupine caribou herd, which include a ban on hunting female caribou and a limit of only one bull per hunter.