First Nations, Inuit and Métis people display higher rates of volunteerism, informal learning and community involvement than non-aboriginal Canadians, according to a new study.

Nunavut RCMP have charged a man in what they say is the first confirmed methamphetamine seizure in the territory.

Yukon Premier Dennis Fentie says he is considering the recommendations of the Peel Watershed Planning Commission's proposed land-use plan for the Peel River region.

An outbreak of tuberculosis in Déline, N.W.T., has some in the remote community worried about the disease's possible spread during the holiday travel season, but health officials say travel is still safe.

Nunavut Premier Eva Aariak has released the government's Tamapta action plan for the next four years.

The Yukon's opposition MLAs asked the territorial government on Monday to rescue the Whitehorse Boys and Girls Club, which will close next week if it doesn't get any emergency funding.

Dramatic shorts by Toronto director Jamie Travis and Montreal's Paul Raphael and Félix Lajeunesse have earned screening spots at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.

The recent recovery of the N.W.T.'s diamond mines may not be matched by Yellowknife's diamond polishing industry, which continues to ebb following a number of closures and cutbacks.

Iqaluit RCMP are asking the public for information about the death of a 44-year-old woman whose body was found in a residence this past weekend.

The number of swine flu cases in Nunavut continues to rise, but Health Minister Tagak Curley says it doesn't necessarily mean a second flu wave is underway.

The head of the World Meteorological Organization, a United Nations weather agency, said Tuesday that this decade is "very likely" the warmest on record going back to 1850.

A new society in Iqaluit is taking over operations of the city's homeless men's shelter from the Salvation Army, which will stop running the facility next month.

A long-running snowmobile race through northern British Columbia and the Yukon will go ahead as usual next month, a year after a competitor from Alaska was killed in a race-related crash.

A water scientist at the University of Alberta says a study of water quality at 60 sites along the Athabasca River and its tributaries makes it clear the oilsands have added cancer-causing toxins to the environment.

A picket line has formed Monday morning outside the Union of Northern Workers' office in Yellowknife, where 10 of its own employees are on strike.

Federal investigators are trying to figure out what caused a business jet that was trying to land in Iqaluit on Sunday to veer off the runway and crash through a fence.

The Boys and Girls Club of Whitehorse is hoping a holiday miracle, in the form of more government money, will prevent it from shutting down for good next week.

The United Nations' two-week conference on climate change formally opened Monday in Copenhagen, with organizers warning diplomats that the summit was the best chance to reach an agreement to prevent dangerous levels of global warming.

There is strong support for governments to take an ambitious approach to climate change negotiations in Copenhagen, according to a poll commissioned by the BBC World Service.

The Climate Express rolled into Copenhagen's central train station Sunday from Brussels, carrying hundreds of delegates for the 12-day UN summit to reach a climate agreement that would replace the Kyoto Protocol in 2012.