Baffin Island

Thirty years after the population collapsed, the Atlantic redfish fishery is poised to reopen, providing a second chance at a sustainable fishery.

Calls grow for mandatory measures to reduce underwater noise pollution as melting ice opens up shipping routes.

Inuit hunters fear an upcoming ruling on an Arctic mine expansion could hasten the ongoing decline of a narwhal population that they rely on for food.

A Nunavut judge has granted a mining company an injunction against hunters who stopped its iron ore operation when they protested at the site last month.

Pangnirtung mayor Eric Lawlor couldn't see out his windows on Sunday, December 27, 2020. That's when a record-breaking blizzard hit the Baffin Island community of about 1,500, shaking houses and crushing cabins.

Nunavut is reporting what may be its first case of COVID-19.

Nunavut RCMP are considering whether to use body cameras as tension grows between police officers and the largely Inuit communities they serve.

COVID-19 has reached Canada's High Arctic.

The federal government will be under pressure today, May 1, 2020, to explain what it's doing to prevent COVID-19 from spreading like wildfire through First Nations reserves and remote Inuit communities in the North.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau injected a dose of electoral politics into an announcement on Thursday, August 1, 2019, in Canada's Far North, taking aim at his Conservative rival while unveiling details on two marine protected areas.

An Inuit land-claim group is asking the federal government to permanently protect large sections of the Eastern Arctic from any industrial development.

Recent Russian moves in the Arctic have renewed debate over that country's intentions and Canada's own status at the top of the world.

Matthew Ayre was transcribing logbooks from British whaling ships in March when he became intrigued by entries describing a whaler that wrecked off the east coast of Baffin Island early in the last century.

Facebook is asking Inuktut speakers for their help in translating the social networking site into the language of the North.

The life story of Nunavut's new premier reads like a modern history of the Inuit. But Paul Quassa says he wants to look forward, not back.