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WHITEHORSE — Yukon and the federal government have reached a $7.4-million agreement to improve school food for students in the territory.

Yukon is predicting an $81.96 million surplus this year as the territory promises record capital investment in housing, in what is expected to be its last budget before the next territorial election.

WHITEHORSE — The Yukon government says it has been informed of an "unauthorized discharge of cyanide-impacted water" at the site of last summer's mine disaster north of Mayo.

Yukon Premier Ranj Pillai says his government is considering limiting support for companies tied to Elon Musk as part of a potential second phase of action in response to U.S. tariffs. Pillai says in a statement in response to U.S.

OTTAWA — Canada's spy agency warns that colliding global developments make the Arctic an "attractive, strategic and vulnerable destination" for foreign adversaries seeking to establish a presence in Canada.

MONTREAL — Michael Hale still recalls the moment COVID-19 upended his world.

Yukon is no longer placing orders for U.S.-made alcohol and is removing American products from all government liquor stores in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs on Canadian goods.

KELOWNA, B.C. — Northwest Territories vice D'arcy Delorey would often use a territorial championship banner at the three-sheet Hay River Curling Club as inspiration in the early days of his curling journey.

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Officials in Yukon say they believe about 19 million litres of cyanide-contaminated water leaked from a containment pond at the site of a mining disaster last year before the problem was spotted and the water diluted.