North News

IQALUIT, Nunavut — A Nunavut judge has ruled that the mandatory minimum sentence for inviting a person under the age of 16 years to sexual touching violates Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

YELLOWKNIFE — The Northwest Territories government is lauding changes to its health-care system that it says reduced wait times for mental health counselling by 79 per cent.

ULUKHAKTOK, N.W.T. — The first Indigenous woman to lead a provincial or territorial government in Canada is being honoured with a new stamp.

TROUT LAKE, N.W.T. — An out-of-control wildfire burning near Sambaa K'e, a small Dene community in the Northwest Territories, has destroyed two cabins.

WHITEHORSE — The Yukon government is challenging the territory's Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board in court after the assessment authority recommended against a mining exploration project. Silver47 Exploration Corp.

HAY RIVER, N.W.T. — The K'at'lodeeche First Nation says residents can return to the reserve in the Northwest Territories more than three weeks after they were forced to leave their homes due to a wildfire.

CARCROSS, Yukon — Emotions ran high in a Yukon First Nations community Monday as officials announced the search for unmarked graves would begin at a former residential school site.

POND INLET, Nunavut — A marine conservation charity and Inuit hunters are praising cruise operators for agreeing to avoid a Nunavut waterway where thousands of narwhal migrate each summer.

IQALUIT, Nunavut — Nunavut filmmakers and videographers say construction of a large-scale TV and film production studio in Iqaluit will be "game changing" for the territory's film industry.

WHITEHORSE — Two men, one from Metro Vancouver and another from Alberta, face several charges following a weekend drug raid in Whitehorse.