Today's top headlines from CBC North

Today's top headlines from CBC North - 2025-09-18

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Whitehorse man who caused fatal house explosion in 2023 sentenced to 2 months house arrest

September 17 , 2025 at 08:42:12 p.m. CDT • :

The man found responsible for an explosion in 2023 that destroyed his Whitehorse home, killed his neighbour and damaged several other homes, has been sentenced to two months of house arrest.

Whitehorse's historic S.S. Klondike to get a $14M makeover

September 17 , 2025 at 07:11:28 p.m. CDT • :

A Parks Canada spokesperson says the vessel, which was one of the many sternwheelers that once travelled Yukon's waterways a century ago, is in bad shape.

Services reduced again at health centre in Faro, Yukon

September 17 , 2025 at 06:18:54 p.m. CDT • :

Services at the health centre in Faro, Yukon are reduced again for the second time in two months.

N.W.T. judge orders hold on bidding for Inuvik airport terminal project

September 17 , 2025 at 05:48:40 p.m. CDT • :

The dispute is over the construction of a new air terminal building at the Inuvik Mike Zubko Airport. The government of the Northwest Territories has opened bidding to the public but the Gwich'in Tribal Council says Gwich'in businesses should be given preferential treatment.

'Come on home': Salt River First Nation celebrates long-awaited subdivision development in Fort Smith, N.W.T.

September 17 , 2025 at 05:19:00 p.m. CDT • :

Salt River First Nation celebrated the grand opening of its new subdivision in Fort Smith, N.W.T., last week. Five modular homes are already in place with longer-term plans for over 200 new homes.

September 17 , 2025 at 03:36:27 p.m. CDT • :

Former staff member at Whitehorse's Jack Hulland school hopes class-action settlement 'for the best'

September 15 , 2025 at 12:48:46 p.m. CDT • :

Hiker dies of natural causes on Grey Mountain in Whitehorse: coroner's office

September 16 , 2025 at 03:00:00 a.m. CDT • :

'We're losing our children': Nunavummiut reflect on triple tragedy in Pond Inlet

September 17 , 2025 at 04:06:42 p.m. CDT • :

NunatuKavut art ceremony in N.L. legislature sparks criticism from Nunatsiavut and Innu Nation

September 17 , 2025 at 03:00:00 a.m. CDT • :

How old is Whitehorse? This historian says that's up for debate

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September 14 , 2025 at 03:00:42 a.m. CDT • :

Yukon First Nation holds first cultural caribou hunt on traditional territory in over 3 decades

September 16 , 2025 at 01:34:09 p.m. CDT • :

'A really big loss to the community': Church in Colville Lake, N.W.T., burns

September 16 , 2025 at 08:04:30 p.m. CDT • :

'She was a force': Ione Christensen, former Yukon commissioner and senator, dead at 91

September 17 , 2025 at 10:58:14 a.m. CDT • :

N.W.T. gov't tells power companies to plan to increase use of renewable energy

September 17 , 2025 at 03:00:00 a.m. CDT • :

New research links Yukon summertime heat to climate change

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