Volunteer firefighters in the Yukon are sometimes using expired protective gear when they respond to calls. The territory says it's ordered new gear that should arrive 'shortly.'

Ryan Leef, who served a term as Yukon MP a decade ago, has been selected as the territory's Conservative candidate in the upcoming federal election.

Yukon's coroner has called an inquest into the death of man who was shot and killed by an RCMP officer near the Whitehorse airport three years ago.

The Yukon Party called on the governing Liberals to create a task force dedicated to reducing the administrative burden that doctors have to deal with. The minister of health says a forum dedicated to discuss the issue already exists.

For many years, Jay Mitchell believed he was Métis — until a DNA test helped him find his true biological family in the Yukon, and prompted him to pick up and move to Whitehorse.

André Fortin says four major issues for him are making sure gun regulations don’t harm Yukoners, housing, ensuring that the RCMP is properly funded, and healthcare.

Whitehorse RCMP say a 79-year-old man, missing since Sunday, has been found deceased.

Organized crime is becoming more prevalent in the Yukon, as networks from B.C. and Alberta are expanding into the territory, according to a law enforcement intelligence report.

An exploration company that was fined two years ago for mining infractions at a copper exploration site near Whitehorse is again at work in the same area — and some local residents are not happy about it.

The Yukon Party says the territorial government needs to move fast to poach health-care workers who might be thinking about leaving the United States.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says a government led by him would repeal both the federal consumer carbon tax and standards for pricing greenhouse gas emissions from large industrial emitters.

Scientist Julia Wheeler says accessible technology can be used to help crops grow in challenging conditions and increase food security.

Dressed in matching suspenders, white shirts and bowties, NDP MLA Lane Tredger and their four-month-old son, Bowen, spent the day together on the job this week — a first for the Yukon Legislative Assembly. 

The mother of a B.C. woman who was detained for nearly two weeks by immigration officials in the United States says her daughter is back on home soil.

A researcher who studies political violence said he was 'heartened' that leader of the opposition condemned acts of vandalism against NDP leader. He says other politicians have an important role in denouncing acts of political violence.

The non-profit has launched a petition calling for answers on why its been excluded from a government contract. Executive director Shannon Powell says they want equal access to continue processing community depot recycling.

A B.C. woman who has been detained by U.S. immigration officials for 11 days, after trying to enter the country, will be released on Friday, according to her father.

The Yukon government approved three stewardship plans for its Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) program this week, giving organizations the go-ahead to start managing recycling later this year. The program is meant to shift the cost of recycling from governments and taxpayers to producers.

Like ‘The Adams Family having a cocktail party’, horror actors Hutchie and Finlan (along with celebrity guests) visit Canada’s most haunted locations

The Association of Yukon Fire Chiefs says about 80 per cent of volunteer firefighters in the territory are wearing expired protective equipment, putting them in danger and in violation of occupational health and safety regulations when they respond to emergencies.

Claudelle Quintal was on her way to Whitehorse Wednesday morning when she saw that the community centre and library in her community was on fire.