A Yellowknife RCMP constable has been charged with assault causing bodily harm, the police force has announced.

A 67-year-old man says he survived a polar bear attack in Nunavut by punching the bear in the face, a tactic he learned from an Inuit elder.

The current mayor of Dawson City, Yukon, says he believes former mayor Glen Everitt's 12-month conditional sentence for misappropriating town funds is too light

The cause of a plane crash that killed a U.S. pilot in the Northwest Territories remains a mystery so far, the federal Transportation Safety Board says.

Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff says Liberals have a "hole in our hearts" after the sudden death of his communications director, Mario Laguë.

Former Dawson City mayor Glen Everitt has been handed a 12-month conditional sentence for misappropriating public funds from the Yukon town.

Emergency officials in Old Crow, Yukon, continue to watch water levels on the Porcupine River, which came close to flooding its banks this week.

The remote community of Déline, N.W.T., continues to battle a tuberculosis outbreak, with two more cases confirmed in the past month.

Alberta's energy regulator has approved Imperial Oil Ltd.'s plan to deal with waste from its Kearl oilsands mine, but the nod comes with some conditions.

A decision by a Whitehorse animal shelter to put down two dogs it had in care has stirred up debate, with a board member resigning in protest.

Liberal Opposition Leader Michael Ignatieff's cross-country tour has taken him to Nunavut, where he met with the territory's leaders in Iqaluit.

Residents of a Baffin Island community say they couldn't handle a large fuel spill after a close call with a grounded fuel tanker.

Canada's territories have bright economic outlooks ahead, thanks to a rebounding demand for diamonds, gold and other minerals, according to the latest forecast from the Conference Board of Canada.

Rocks made of 4.5-billion-year-old material from the inner Earth have been found under Baffin Island in Nunavut.

Federal Auditor General Sheila Fraser says she has a better understanding of the challenges people in Canada's North face, following a recent trip to the High Arctic.

A Nunavut woman who was hit by a truck in Winnipeg has died in hospital.

The opening of a new satellite communications station in Inuvik, N.W.T., is expected to boost satellite observation of the Arctic region.

Long-distance telephone and internet services in the Northwest Territories and Yukon have been disrupted twice this week because of road construction in Alberta.

A plane carrying former U.S. senator Ted Stevens and ex-NASA chief Sean O'Keefe crashed near a remote fishing village in Alaska, killing the longtime senator and at least four others, authorities say.

For the second time in a month, a massive iceberg has broken off a glacier in Greenland, raising concerns among scientists about the world's warming oceans.