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WHITEHORSE — The federal government says it has committed more than $56 million toward the construction of a new convention centre in the Yukon capital of Whitehorse.

WHITEHORSE — The Yukon and federal governments have announced a $9.5-million pharmacare agreement over four years, giving universal access to contraceptive and diabetes medications for the territory's residents.

YELLOWKNIFE — RCMP say charges have been laid in a shooting that killed one person and injured two others in the Northwest Territories.

IQALUIT — Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday that Ottawa will expand the Canadian Armed Forces’ presence in the Arctic and turn to Australia's over-the-horizon radar tech to monitor threats from adversaries such as China and Russia.

IQALUIT — Prime Minister Mark Carney says he hopes recovering the remains of two First Nations women murdered by a serial killer from a Manitoba landfill brings closure to their families.

FORT PROVIDENCE, N.W.T. — RCMP say the illicit drug trade could be tied to a shooting that killed one and injured two others in the Northwest Territories over the weekend.

RCMP say an 18-year-old from Quebec has been charged in the death of a man in the Northwest Territories. Mounties were called out to a property in Fort Good Hope, a community two and a half hours away by plane from Yellowknife, on Feb.

FORT PROVIDENCE, N.W.T. — Police say one person is dead after a shooting in the Northwest Territories hamlet of Fort Providence, about 315 kilometres southwest of Yellowknife.

In one of history's little-known ironies, the Maple Leaf country pushing back against Donald Trump’s annexation bid is also host to a tiny, remote restaurant and brothel that helped launch the U.S. president's family fortune more than 100 years ago.

TAGISH, Y.T. — The Tagish Community Centre has been destroyed by fire, leaving the small Yukon community without its central hub, which included recreation facilities, meeting rooms, library services and an outdoor ice rink.