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RANKIN INLET, Nvt. — The Nunavut RCMP says a man recently charged in the killing of a 15-year-old girl about four decades ago had served time for two other murders when he was arrested this week at a halfway house in Ottawa. RCMP spokesman Cpl.

IQALUIT — Mounties in Nunavut have made an arrest in the murder of a 15-year-old girl almost 40 years ago. Mary Ann Birmingham was found dead in Frobisher Bay in what was then the Northwest Territories in May of 1986.

A new rapid analysis says climate change made August heat waves over some of Canada's most northern – and rapidly warming – regions at least 10 times more likely. Environment and Climate Change Canada says the heat waves in Inuvik, N.W.T.

OTTAWA — Canada and the United States say they have created a task force to negotiate a boundary dispute in the Arctic. The two countries have a long-standing dispute over a section of the Beaufort Sea, disagreeing over a treaty dating from 1825.

WHITEHORSE — Yukon officials say they are working to understand how groundwater moves through an area where a failure at a mine released millions of tonnes of cyanide-laced ore into the surrounding environment, about 480 kilometres north of Whitehors

TORONTO — Whooping cough is on track to reach a record number of cases in Ontario while infections climb in eastern provinces and decline in Quebec, but experts say trying to predict the course of the highly contagious disease has been especially dif

EDMONTON — Independent investigators have cleared a Yukon police officer in a 2022 fatal shooting of a man who was threatening others with a rifle.

The Nunavut government says it will provide immunization against respiratory syncytial virus to all infants in the territory this fall, a policy change that one pediatric infectious diseases specialist has been advocating for decades.

WHITEHORSE — Mounties in Yukon say specialized police divers have been unable to find an American man missing after the truck he was in plunged into the Yukon River.

WHITEHORSE — Whitehorse RCMP say a man from Phoenix, Ariz., is missing after the truck he was travelling in missed a bridge and plunged into the Yukon River.