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Nunavut's ski team debuts at Arctic Winter Games

Watching his skiers cross the finish line, Nunavut coach Benoit Havard chokes up with emotion.

PB and J, together again: Whitehorse school eases longstanding ban on nuts

Some elementary students in Whitehorse are heading back to school after the holidays with something they haven't been able to pack in their lunches before: peanut butter sandwiches.

People in Watson Lake, Yukon, wonder what happened to their promised long-term care beds

The cancellation of previously announced plans to create two long-term care beds in Watson Lake, Yukon, has doctors and residents in town wondering what happened.

Food banks in Yukon struggle to meet ever-growing need

In the last year, the number of people using food banks in the Yukon has gone up by 20 per cent, and since the start of the pandemic it's doubled, according to the Food Bank Society.

New program in Watson Lake, Yukon, helps people earn their high school diploma

The doors opened last month on a new Individual Learning Centre in Watson Lake, Yukon. It's meant to help people complete their high school diploma without having to leave the community.

Sugar shortage hits northern grocers and holiday bakers

Some northern shoppers are doing a double take in the baking aisle these days.Where the sugar should be, there are empty or near-empty shelves.

Instagram's 'Mr. Adventure' accused of illegally killing bears in Yukon

Tristan James Hamm who goes by "Mr. Adventure" on Instagram, describing himself as an outdoor connoisseur, adventure athlete and an entrepreneur is accused of illegally killing two Yukon black bears and a grizzly.

Yukon sewing students take cultural field trip to Sami communities in Finland, Norway

A group of women from Mayo, Yukon, are in northern Europe in the traditional territory of the Indigenous Sami people as part of a cultural exchange sewing together both local and pan-northern connections.

'It needs to be done': Grieving woman welcomes inquest into Whitehorse shelter deaths

Loved ones of people who died at the Whitehorse emergency shelter are welcoming the chief coroner's call for a public inquest.

Yukon coroner hopes inquest into deaths at Whitehorse shelter can bring comfort, save lives

Yukon's chief coroner is calling for compassion and understanding in advance of a public inquest that will lookinto the deaths of four people who died while accessing services at Whitehorse's emergency shelter.