Two vacationing couples — including sisters — and a fishing boat captain were on a charter boat found partially submerged off southeast Alaska over the weekend amid rough seas, family members said Wednesday.

The Yukon government is taking the territory's environmental and socio-economic assessment board to court after it recommended against a proposed mining exploration project near Dawson City, in the Peel watershed.

A sacred fire in Whitehorse on Wednesday brought people together at Long Lake to grieve, but also to reflect on how to address the territory's opioid crisis. There have been 12 substance-use related deaths in Yukon so far this year.

A Whitehorse woman was found dead in her vehicle this week, after an apparent accident on the Alaska Highway south of Whitehorse days earlier.

A Nunavut MLA says the territorial government has abandoned children in its care, after an auditor general report found it was failing to provide adequate child and family services. 

The strategy, tabled at the N.W.T. Legislative Assembly on Wednesday afternoon, named 'A Way Home,' said person-centered service recognizes that a person is an expert in what they need, and it puts them at the heart of decision-making.

An evacuation centre is being set up in Fort Simpson, N.W.T. for Sambaa K'e residents who are being flown out of their community. A wildfire burning 30 kilometres away from their homes is considered the 'biggest fire of concern in the territory' and has eaten up nearly 100,000 hectares of land so far.

Adeline Webber, a member of the Teslin Tlingit Council and longtime advocate for Indigenous rights, has been named the new commissioner of the Yukon.

An effort to evacuate Fort Chipewyan, Alta., is slowly nearing completion as the fight against the flames escalates.

A Behchoko`, N.W.T., woman is expected to be sentenced Wednesday for her role in a ‘serious, significant and tragic’ car crash two years ago on Highway 3. In court Tuesday, family and friends remembered Felix Black, who died at 22.