A Winnipeg-built mosque on its way to the Northwest Territories is back on the road after being held up in Alberta.

The Conservative MP behind a bill to scrap the long-gun registry is going to Whitehorse this week to urge Yukon Liberal MP Larry Bagnell to vote against his party on the issue.

A federal law that cuts the extra credit prisoners can get for time served in custody has not yet led to overcrowded jails and soaring corrections costs in the N.W.T. and Nunavut, according to corrections officials.

A Yukon-based forensic study on how carcasses decompose in Canada's North has the potential to expand into further research.

Two monuments will be unveiled in the High Arctic this week to recognize Inuit who were forced to live in Canada's most northerly settlements in the 1950s.

A mosque being sent to the Northwest Territories from Winnipeg is stuck in Edmonton for the long weekend.

It could be days before a fuel tanker carrying 9.5 million litres of diesel is dislodged from a sandbar in the Northwest Passage.

Premier Ed Stelmach is scheduled to meet with the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, next Wednesday in Ottawa.

The Yukon's MLAs will return to the legislature on Sept. 21 for the fall session, a month earlier than usual, Premier Dennis Fentie has announced.

This week marks the end of the Yukon's latest forest fire season, which territorial fire officials say was about average compared to other years.

The City of Iqaluit has received federal funding to develop a 100-year vision for a more environmentally sustainable city.

Federal NDP leader Jack Layton says Canada should assert its sovereignty over the Arctic not with military strength but with support for northern communities.

Some Yukon landlords say they're worried a new Landlord and Tenant Act may include onerous and unreasonable new rights for tenants.

A fuel tanker carrying more than nine million litres of diesel fuel has run aground in the Northwest Passage, the Canadian Coast Guard has confirmed.

One of the world's most luxurious private yachts made an unexpected appearance recently in the High Arctic hamlet of Pond Inlet, Nunavut, on its way through the Northwest Passage.

A Montana bow hunter may have claimed the largest recorded mountain caribou in the Northwest Territories, which could make it one of the largest in the world.

The Yukon government has declared the former Whitehorse tank farm a contaminated site, but the property's owners say they will move ahead with plans to develop a major subdivision there.

Four Greenpeace activists have been arrested after they climbed onto an oil rig off Greenland's western coast this week, trying to halt Arctic offshore drilling.

The Canadian government will not fund a clinical trial of the so-called liberation therapy for multiple sclerosis at this time, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq says.

Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach said Wednesday his government will compare newly published data from the University of Alberta with research already done by government scientists on the impact of oilsands development on the Athabasca River.