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.

Environment Minister Jim Prentice says federal scientists have always told him any contaminants such as lead or mercury in the Athabasca River are naturally occurring, not from the oilsands industry.

The Canadian government's recent effort to assert its sovereignty in the Arctic has reignited calls for a university to be created in the North.

Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. is refuting claims by its president that he was unfairly suspended from his job over problems with his credit card account.

A new RCMP report on the Canadian Firearms Program contains no evidence on the effectiveness of the long-gun registry, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews says.

Canadian officials say they have entered talks with the British government on how best to preserve the wreck of HMS Investigator, which was found in Arctic waters this summer.

The WHL's Vancouver Giants and Kamloops Blazers will clash in Whitehorse to headline a busy day of festivities during CBC's Hockey Day in Canada on Feb. 12.

Yukon Zinc Corp. says its Wolverine mine in southeast Yukon should begin production around October, months after a contract worker's death postponed the company's plans.

A regulatory body for the proposed Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline says the federal government is not being transparent about the project.

Winnipeg's Muslim community has built a mosque to ship to Inuvik, N.W.T., to serve about a dozen Muslim families.

Yellowknife RCMP are investigating a plane crash 55 kilometres north of Yellowknife on the shore of Fishing Lake.

The City of Whitehorse will start issuing fines Wednesday to motorists who illegally park in disabled parking spots, including on privately-owned parking lots and shopping malls.

After years of limited shrimp fishing in Nunavut, a British factory-freezer vessel is reporting impressive results in waters near Qikiqtarjuaq, the Baffin Fisheries Coalition reports.

Greenpeace forced a Scottish company to stop drilling off Greenland on Tuesday, when four activists occupied an oil rig.