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America's 49th state is showing support for the country that U.S. President Donald Trump wants to make its 51st. Republican Rep. Chuck Kopp of Alaska, which shares a border with the Yukon and is separated from the contiguous U.S.

FORT GOOD HOPE, N.W.T. — RCMP say a 14-year-old has been charged in the death of a woman in the Northwest Territories.

WHITEHORSE — The federal government says it has committed more than $56 million toward the construction of a new convention centre in the Yukon capital of Whitehorse.

WHITEHORSE — The Yukon and federal governments have announced a $9.5-million pharmacare agreement over four years, giving universal access to contraceptive and diabetes medications for the territory's residents.

YELLOWKNIFE — RCMP say charges have been laid in a shooting that killed one person and injured two others in the Northwest Territories.

IQALUIT — Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday that Ottawa will expand the Canadian Armed Forces’ presence in the Arctic and turn to Australia's over-the-horizon radar tech to monitor threats from adversaries such as China and Russia.

IQALUIT — Prime Minister Mark Carney says he hopes recovering the remains of two First Nations women murdered by a serial killer from a Manitoba landfill brings closure to their families.

FORT PROVIDENCE, N.W.T. — RCMP say the illicit drug trade could be tied to a shooting that killed one and injured two others in the Northwest Territories over the weekend.

RCMP say an 18-year-old from Quebec has been charged in the death of a man in the Northwest Territories. Mounties were called out to a property in Fort Good Hope, a community two and a half hours away by plane from Yellowknife, on Feb.

FORT PROVIDENCE, N.W.T. — Police say one person is dead after a shooting in the Northwest Territories hamlet of Fort Providence, about 315 kilometres southwest of Yellowknife.