Another jail opened in Nunavut last week. It is long overdue -- the existing facility in Iqaluit, Baffin Correctional Centre is, as Justice Mahar of the Nunavut Court of Justice recently said, "notoriously over crowded and under resourced." And yet a rather bland factual news story about the opening of the new prison in Rankin was met with a flood of angry comments about over pampered prisoners, club fed hotels and similar complaints.

SANIKILUAQ, Nunavut - A woman on a plane that crashed in Nunavut, killing an infant, says she heard the child's frantic mother crying as she and the o...

We gazed out across seemingly endless kilometres of empty Arctic landscape. It's a vista that one Canadian in a thousand might ever witness, yet we were out on the tundra with a Canadian Ranger and His Royal Highness The Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex. Everyone we met seemed simply pleased the royals chose, of all the places, to fly to the top of the world and meet with them.

SANIKILUAQ, Nunavut - A teacher in Nunavut has been charged with sexual offences at the school where he taught going back to 1984.RCMP say Johnny Meek...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Police in Iqaluit say they were forced to shoot and kill an aggressive pitbull after the owner allegedly directed her dog to attack...

A 59-year-old woman was found nearly frozen to death in Iqaluit early Wednesday morning. RCMP say they found her semi-conscio...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Twenty million litres of water surged from a broken water main and shut down Nunavut's capital Friday.Schools, the hospital, workpl...

EDMONTON - A Catholic priest awaiting trial on sex-related offences in the Arctic is being transferred to Edmonton to face more charges.Edmonton polic...

IGLOOLIK, Nunavut - An Arctic hamlet's joy has turned to sorrow after a military airman died while rescuing a father and son who had been stranded for...

Stephen Harper talks of Northern sovereignty but demonstrates a purely militaristic approach, with the recent addition of a little nod to resource extraction. At no time has the prime minister acknowledged that an essential ingredient to our sovereignty is sustainable and liveable communities in the North.

A recent study suggests weak northern communications networks are holding back economic development and impairing efforts to enforce Canadian sovereig...

Canada’s Transportation Safety Board has released new images of the wreckage of First Air flight 6560 — the first close-up photos Canadians have s...

Passengers on First Air Flight 65-60 didn't know anything was wrong until the plane hit the ground near Resolute, Nunavut, one of the three survivors ...

HARBOUR MILLE, N.L. - A Newfoundland carpenter who died in a High Arctic jetliner crash was already frightened of the flights that took him to his nor...

OTTAWA - The fatal crash of a jetliner in Resolute Bay on Saturday has cast a pall over Prime Minister Stephen Harper's annual Arctic tour scheduled f...

RESOLUTE BAY, Nunavut - One was a six-year-old granddaughter. One was returning to his Arctic job from his sister's Newfoundland funeral.One was the W...

RESOLUTE BAY, Nunavut - Residents of a remote High Arctic hamlet and soldiers from nearby military exercises rushed to the scene of a deadly passenger...