Whitehorse News

ItE1 4s important to consider the rate of inflation in the North, rather than the South, when factoring it into the northern tax benefit, NDP Leader Tom Mulcair told a Whitehorse business audience Wednesday.

Race leader Aliy Zirkle took a two-hour lead out of the Yukon River village of Kaltag on Saturday and became the first musher to reach the Alaska west coast community of Unalakleet in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

Former Parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page, who took the government to court over its refusal to hand over details of federal spending cuts before his controversial term ended last year, is joining NDP Leader Tom Mulcair this week for a public airing of 'public finance and democracy in Canada.'

Her Majesty's Canadian Ships Kingston and Glace Bay have joined HMC Ships Nanaimo and Whitehorse and a CP-140 Aurora aircraft detachment on Operation CARIBBE, Canada's contribution to the multinational campaign against illicit trafficking in the Americas and Caribbean.

A runner-up from the last two years and a four-time champion continued to play leapfrog Saturday at the head of the pack in the 2014 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

In this Thursday, March 6, 2014 photo, Iditarod musher Mitch Seavey of Seward, Alaska, comes into the Cripple checkpoint, in Cripple, Alaska, during the 2014 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race .

The first 300 film was a big box office success, but can lightning strike twice with the epic battle sequel? Take a look at what the critics are saying about the new release on RottenTomatoes.com.

Chuck Wilson is seen riding his bike on North Slope Haul Road, also known as the Dalton Highway in Alaska.

Covered in anti-fracking signs and topped with a matching green canoe, the Frackmobile has turned many heads on its travels throughout New Jersey during the past three years.

A contentious, culturally sensitive legal battle over French-language education in the Yukon is headed to Canada's highest court to consider hearing.

Converting plastic from rivers, lakes and oceans into fuel is not as difficult as some might think, according to a new Canadian study.

Covered in anti-fracking signs and topped with a matching green canoe, the Frackmobile has turned many heads on its travels throughout Central Jersey during the past three years.

Alan Young comes from settler stock. Born in the interior B.C. town of Princeton, he is a fourth-generation descendant of John Fall Allison, a Yorkshireman who in 1858 became the first white man to settle in the area.