the new United States government assumed ownership of the vast Northwest Territory that had been ceded to the pre-constitutional confederation by states with (real or potential) claims to the land.

Territorial premiers said it is a critical time for the Arctic amid U.S. President Donald Trump’s increasing rhetoric of ...

Yellowknife, the capital of the Northwest Territories, is an isolated mining town built on gold and now sustained by diamonds—an outpost of civilization surrounded by a vast, austere landscape ...