Donald Trump's Arctic strategy has been 500 years in the making. When Christopher Columbus set sail across the Atlantic in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Canadian Coast Guard ship navigates Arctic sea ice. Courtesy of Scottish Association for Marine Science By melting Arctic sea ...

U.S. saber-rattling has Canada refocusing on Arctic security and long-ignored gaps in defense.

In 1847, Sir John Franklin and a crew of 128 men disappeared without a trace while searching for the Northwest Passage, a sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. 175 years later, a team ...

A 1988 agreement between Canada and the United States about the sea lane left its legal status largely undecided, allowing ...

There was a time when the Northwest Passage was a sort of maritime Holy Grail, a route so desired and sought after, but so elusive. For most of the recorded history of North America, the Passage has ...