Work on the all-season road between Tibbitt Lake and Lockhart Lake will begin in 2024. The road is the first piece of a larger gravel road that will run through the Slave Geological Province where the Ekati, Diavik and Gahcho Kue diamond mines operate.

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Nearly 2.5 million Canadians have indicated they want to be organ and tissue donors, thanks to a Conservative private member's bill that lets people tick a box on their annual tax return.

A federal housing advocate is accusing every level of government in Canada of failing to uphold the Inuit's right to housing — and therefore denying their human rights.

Nunavut RCMP says its investigating an alleged theft at the Iqaluit Amateur Hockey Association — the group which organizes minor hockey in the territorial capital.

After a blizzard tore through Nunavut's western Kivalliq region earlier this week, some residents in the 2,800-person community of Arviat were left without power for four days.

The sale of the N.W.T.'s Blachford Lake Lodge to Iqaluit-based company Arctic Kingdom Polar Expeditions Inc. will be finalized in 15 days, conditional on Arctic Kingdom being able to find financing for the purchase.

A Nunavut judge has found that a man who attacked another man with a snowmobile in December 2019 did not intend to kill him. The judge also sentenced Jordan Kovic, 23, to time served for a charge of aggravated assault.

The EU seal ban didn't feature heavily, if at all, during discussions between Canadian and European leaders on Friday in St. John's. But one comment by the European Commission president has drawn the ire of a seal hunt advocate.

A group of Inuit hunters argued earlier this year that mandatory driving prohibitions for people charged with impaired driving prevent them from going on the land with snowmobiles, ATVs and boats. In a decision Friday the judge dismissed their application.

Arviat RCMP are investigating two deaths in the Nunavut community this week. One report came in Monday afternoon, the other Wednesday night.

Members of the seal industry and advocates for the hunt say they don't understand the decision to a hold a Canada-European Union summit in St. John's without making a longtime European ban on seal products a priority during the talks.

An Iqaluit company specializing in Arctic tourism wants to buy an eco-lodge near Yellowknife that went bankrupt.

A new art program has been introduced at Mildred Hall School in Yellowknife. The Messy Book Program provides students a place to feel safe and create art with the help of Indigenous artists.

Some Nunavut communities woke up to winds gusting over 100 kilometres an hour on Wednesday, forcing schools and offices to close and flights to halt.

Baffinland Iron Mines Corp. has been given the OK to ship more ore from its Mary River mine in Nunavut. The company can ship up to six million tonnes of ore per year until Dec. 31, 2024, up from 4.2 million tonnes per year.

The Nunavut Impact Review Board has decided that Agnico Eagle's proposal to extend its Meliadine gold mine should be allowed to proceed. The decision comes after nearly a year and a half of assessing the proposed expansion.

After 14 years as Nunavut’s senator, Dennis Patterson will retire next month when he turns 75. For the territory’s next senator he says, “be strong, be loud, be aggressive, and you’ll make things happen.”

The RCMP’s long-promised plan to equip Mounties across the country with body-worn cameras has been delayed.

Iqaluit-Sinaa MLA, Janet Pitsiulaaq Brewster, says that declaring a public emergency would allow the Nunavut government to pull more resources to address the suicide rate in the territory.

The Nunavut Employees Union and the Government of Nunavut have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to pay health-care workers more and attract staff to the territory through recruitment and retention bonuses and financial assistance for employees paying back student loans.