Yukon health officials say they're looking for ways to make COVID-19 testing more efficient in the territory, after a public health warning last week prompted a temporary backlog.

Residents can expect to be living under the emergency measure for at least two more weeks through to Aug. 18, according to a government news release sent Wednesday.

A Yukoner is calling for Whitehorse to paint more crosswalks with flags representing the LGTBTQ community as well as Black and Indigenous people and people of colour. Mayor Dan Curtis says he's on board.

Robert Service School has ordered personalized fabric masks for its 250 students this year, as the principal looks at mandating or recommending masks in certain high-traffic areas.

A survivor of one of Canada's most notorious residential schools wants the criminal case against his alleged abuser — which ended with the withdrawal of a charge of indecent assault — reopened. 

Seventy-five years after two nuclear bombs were dropped on Japan — killing hundreds of thousands of people in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — one small community in the Northwest Territories is still haunted by its connection to the blasts. 

Indigenous leaders in the N.W.T. and northern Alberta are "angry" about a joint decision between the federal government and the province of Alberta to cut the budget for environmental monitoring in the oilsands. 

Conservation groups filed a lawsuit challenging a right-of-way permit through the Northwest Alaska wilderness for an industrial road to the Ambler mining district that was approved by the federal government.

Two Yukoners have reported car windows being shattered by flying rocks on the same gravel section of the Alaska Highway in the past week.

A judge will decide this fall whether a Fort McPherson man who survived a “deeply traumatic” childhood will be declared a long-term offender. Simon was convicted last year of his third sexual assault.