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WHITEHORSE — Yukon government officials are expecting a much more conventional wildfire season this year after dealing with hundreds of fires in 2023.

OTTAWA — While the wildfire season has been less dire so far this year than 2023, hot, dry weather means conditions are ripe for an above average fire season across most of Canada, the national fire forecast said Wednesday.

WHITEHORSE — Bell Canada says it is selling Northwestel Inc. to Sixty North Unity, a consortium of Indigenous communities from the Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut, for around $1 billion.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A soccer ball appears to have made a 3,000-kilometre oceanic journey from the top of Baffin Island to the hands of a lobster fisherman on the coast of Newfoundland.

HAINES JUNCTION, Y.T. — The Yukon Coroner's Office says it's investigating a death associated with a small plane crash at the Haines Junction airport. In an email to The Canadian Press, the coroner's office says the crash happened Monday afternoon.

WHITEHORSE — Federal immigration money is being "showered down" on Ontario and Quebec "at the expense" of Western Canada, British Columbia Premier David Eby said.

OTTAWA — Meghan Fandrich's voice shakes as she recalls grabbing her five-year-old daughter and fleeing their home as flames descended on the village of Lytton, B.C., in 2021.

TORONTO — A Pamela Anderson cooking show and a new docuseries from Bryan and Sarah Baeumler are among the homegrown highlights of Corus Entertainment’s TV plans, with the broadcaster’s content boss touting a focus on unscripted “Canadian content that

WHITEHORSE — Canada and the United States are suspending all fishing for Canadian-origin Yukon River chinook salmon for seven years in an attempt to protect the dwindling species.

OLD CROW, Yukon — Emergency officials have issued an evacuation alert for parts of Old Crow, Yukon as waters continue to rise on the Porcupine River due to seasonal breakup.