The family of a 14-year-old boy found dead off the coast of northern Labarador are asking why the Canadian Forces waited to look for their son due to weather when a private helicopter was able to land on the scene in the same conditions.

A coroner's inquest into the 2009 death of Adamie Nuturalak will take place in Iqaluit next month. Nuturalak died while in police custody.

The Inuit goverment in Labrador has bought a controlling stake in an airline that provides many of the flights in the region.

Starting Thursday, two astronauts aboard the International Space Station will photograph the aurora borealis and beam the images back to Earth as part of the AuroraMAX project.

An exhibit of photos taken by Arctic explorer Roald Amundsen opened at the Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum in Iqaluit this week.

Twenty four mushers depart Fairbanks, Alaska, Saturday at noon PT for this year's Yukon Quest International sled dog race.

A military vehicle involved with Exercise Arctic Ram, taking place later this month in the Northwest Territories, turned over on Highway 3 Friday near Behchoko.

Whitehorse RCMP are looking for 12-year-old Brady Ford, who left a group home Monday and has not returned.

Monthly water testing is part of a new $50 million 'world class' federal-provincial environmental monitoring plan for the Alberta oilsands.

Hundreds gathered in Whitehorse Saturday to remember five people who died of what is believed to be carbon monoxide poisoning.

A Paulatuk, N.W.T., man was sentenced in Yellowknife Thursday to nearly one year in jail for sexually assaulting his common-law wife's daughter.

On Sunday Iqaluit RCMP seized more than seven kilograms of marijuana hidden in empty boxes of snacks in a passenger's luggage.

A mother and two children died in a house fire in Taloyoak, Nunavut, Thursday night.

The federal fisheries minister is encouraging all members of parliament to show their support for Canada's embattled sealing industry by wearing a lapel pin made from seal fur.