More than 100 people gathered along Yellowknife's Frame Lake Trail on Thursday afternoon to say goodbye to former mayor Pat McMahon.

At least one recreational vehicle park in the Yukon is seeing fewer tourists than usual this summer, with soaring gas prices to blame for keeping tourists away.

Canadian and U.S. scientists have zeroed in on the cause of the aurora borealis, tracing the shimmering northern lights to the way the "tail" of the Earth's magnetic field snaps back into shape in response to the solar wind.

The Ta'an Kwach'an Council has lost its bid for some prime property in Whitehorse, after another Yukon First Nation won the territorial government's land sale in court Wednesday.

At least two forest fires in the Northwest Territories are creating delays and reduced visibility on area highways Thursday.

The City of Yellowknife wants to be compensated for land at the Giant Mine site that will not or cannot be cleaned up, Mayor Gordon Van Tighem said Wednesday.

The Yukon government is putting $642,150 into the hands of arts organizations across the territory through its Yukon Arts Funding program.

The owner of three tourism camps in the Northwest Territories is putting two camps up for sale, saying business has gone down this year.

Residents in the high Arctic hamlet of Grise Fiord, Nunavut, were cleaning up debris and broken windows Wednesday after the community was blasted by unseasonably strong winds.

There's more ice floating in Frobisher Bay this summer, creating more work for the Canadian coast guard and causing headaches for at least one cruise ship operator.

Road travellers heading up the Dempster Highway this summer say they've noticed the road is in worse shape on the Yukon side of the gravel road than on the Northwest Territories side.

RCMP say the trade in crack cocaine is booming in the Northwest Territories, sparking concerns about violence in northern communities.

Alaska's House of Representatives has approved a Canadian company's plan to bring natural gas from the state's North Slope to southern markets by building a 2,760-kilometre pipeline.

In a long-awaited decision that may have significant consequences for Canadian sealers, the European Union on Wednesday moved to ban imports of products derived from seals that are inhumanely killed.

People in the isolated Gwitchin community of Old Crow, Yukon, are using plastic bags - more precisely, the absence of them - to help make a stand against oil drilling in Alaska.

The Inuit village of Akulivik, Que., is mourning the death of Tumasi Quitsak, a local singer and songwriter who died Sunday.

The Nunavut government is seeking doctors to work full-time in Rankin Inlet, but for the time being it has a solution that the community's mayor hopes is temporary.

The Tr'ondek Hwech'in Han Nation in Dawson City, Yukon, says a group effort is needed in the Yukon and Alaska to conserve chinook salmon in the Yukon River.

Forest fire officials in the Northwest Territories say a blaze that threatened a community near Yellowknife is moving away, as firefighters continue to battle the flames.

Researchers monitoring northern oceans are preparing to use the latest technology to track the movements of Arctic char in Frobisher Bay, near Iqaluit, this week.