Tuberculosis remains a serious health problem in Canada's North, with the infection rate among Inuit 185 times greater than for others born in the country, a national analysis shows.

More than 45,000 Canadians could be recognized as status Indians under changes the federal government plans to make to the Indian Act, CBC News has learned.

Some athletes at this week's Arctic Winter Games in Grande Prairie, Alta., are criticizing organizers for keeping them in a room, without any meals, for two hours at the opening ceremony.

Jurors deciding the fate of Pingoatuk Kolola, a Nunavut man accused of killing an RCMP officer in 2007, remain sequestered for a third day at the Iqaluit courthouse.

A Nunavut MLA is the latest advocate of compensation for Inuit polar bear hunters whose livelihoods have been hurt by recent hunting quota cuts and trade bans on bear hides.

Canine expletives were tossed around like an old tennis ball at the Arctic Winter Games' dog mushing competition in Grande Prairie, Alta., on Tuesday.

Young athletes from Alaska have taken an early lead in the number of medals won in the first two days of competition at the Arctic Winter Games in Grande Prairie, Alta.

Federal scientists are set to map the ocean seabed in the central Arctic this month, as Canada continues to gather data to help claim more Arctic territory under an international treaty.

Jurors in Iqaluit have ended a second day of deliberations in the first-degree murder trial of Pingoatuk Kolola, who is accused of shooting an RCMP officer in Kimmirut, Nunavut.

Terry Ryan, who managed the Cape Dorset artists' co-op in Nunavut and is now director of Dorset Fine Arts in Toronto, has been honoured for his 50 years of work in promoting Inuit art.

The husband of a woman who claims two off-duty RCMP officers sexually assaulted her has told a Yukon Supreme Court judge that he regrets not accompanying his wife to the party where she met the Mounties.

A Yukon outreach agency that provided counselling to hundreds of former Indian residential school students may have to shut down this month because its federal funding has been cut.

Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach said Monday he has not seen pictures of oil-soaked ducks dying and struggling on a lake that have been shown at the trial into environmental charges against Syncrude.

The Northwest Territories' MLAs are being called back to the legislature, six weeks ahead of schedule, for an emergency session to discuss the controversial Deh Cho Bridge project's finances.

The head of Labrador's Innu Nation says the northern reserve of Natuashish should keep a controversial ban on alcohol, despite a vow by its newly elected chief to repeal it.

Eleven Nunavut jurors started deliberating Monday in the murder trial of Pingoatuk Kolola, accused of shooting an RCMP officer more than two years ago.

A program that trains community wellness workers in the Northwest Territories is trying to find ways to keep going, now that a major source of funding has been axed.

A Yukon Supreme Court judge began hearing the case Monday of two RCMP officers accused of sexually assaulting a woman in the town of Watson Lake last year.

Federal monitors are taking a closer look at an abandoned Northwest Territories uranium mine that was supposed to be cleaned up 13 years ago, but still has some debris and radioactive waste on site.

Nunavut Finance Minister Keith Peterson has tabled a budget that aims to balance the territory's books.