The Northwest Territories government has issued a boil water advisory for residents of four communities in the South Slave Region. A news release from the government on Sunday says residents of Hay River, Kátł’odeeche, Enterprise and Kakisa should boil drinking water for at least one minute.

It’s been a decade since the federal government last updated the management plan for the region, which covers roughly 80 per cent of the Alaska panhandle. Now, the U.S. Forest Service has launched early work to shape the next plan, a draft of which is expected later this year.

The N.W.T. Water Monitoring Spring Break-Up Report released Saturday afternoon says the waters "might soon be approaching levels of past flood events."

Two small fires near Carmacks, Yukon were extinguished by firefighters within the last 10 days. This has prompted some Yukoners to think about their readiness as fire season kicks into high gear.

The non-profit organization has secured a parcel of land which will allow it to build a new — and much larger daycare — to replace the existing one. The new daycare will have capacity to provide education to 32 children.

The City of Yellowknife is willing to provide services to help keep encampments clean and sanitary as long as the territory will pay for it, a councillor says. It's an offer the territorial government says it is considering.

With the possibility of two separation referendums on the horizon, Canadians could be forgiven for wondering what would happen if voters in one province or another decide they no longer want to be a part of Canada. Here's what the law says would happen.

A Hay River woman convicted of drug possession with the intent of trafficking has been sentenced to three years in prison.

As new financial documents reveal the total cost of cleaning up the Eagle Gold Mine failure, it’s still unknown whether the Yukon government is guaranteed to recoup the millions it loaned out.

The findings from Yukon point to an "unfolding environmental disaster," one co-author said, and adds to alarm over the rapid climate-fuelled changes in the North.

Iqaluit residents are being advised to take caution this spring after a fox suspected of rabies infection tested positive, according to the Nunavut health department.

A new program will see Yellowknife RCMP stash bikes around the city and keep them monitored "at all times" to deter thefts.

Seeking to reassure U.S. allies, a bipartisan group of senators is departing for a tour of Arctic nations. And this time they're leaving the men behind.

Canada will pump $816 million into maritime security over the next seven years to strengthen the coast guard's capabilities from the arctic to the southern coast lines, Defence Minister David McGuinty announced Friday.

Behchokǫ̀'s unsuitable housing rate is nearly three times the territorial average, and the community is facing extensive waitlists for housing. CBC News visited three homes in the N.W.T. community to see what public housing and market rental tenants have been dealing with and what solutions they would like to see.