Dancers perform during the opening ceremonies of the 2023 Arctic Winter Games in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, Sunday Jan. 29, 2023. (Photo by Brodie Evans / AWG) ...

In the 1980 Arctic Winter Games, he won a silver medal in cross-country skiing for Team Alaska. “The kids are exactly the way I remember when I was in the games in 1980,” Timm said.

The Arctic Winter Games are a weeklong Olympics-style event held every two years for youth athletes, with 20 sports including snowshoe races, Dene Games, badminton, hockey and more.

Now an Arctic Winter Games coach, he's a role model for young athletes in traditional sports – including Nick Hanson, an Iñupiaq from the village of Unalakleet on the Norton Sound of the Bering ...

Members from the Canadian Antartic in Alberta and other territories, to Greenland, Finland, Swedan and Norway compete in Artic Winter Games. Ministers Pascale St-Onge and Dan Vandal welcome ...

Not since 2018 had the Arctic Winter Games taken place; the pandemic like so many other events pushing back these Games. But this year upwards of 1,800 participants from eight contingents were ...

The Arctic Winter Games, an international circumpolar sport competition for northern and arctic athletes, are typically held every two years, however, due to COVID-19, the competition had been on ...

In this high-kicking event at the Arctic Winter Games, Ali Johnston's task was to kick a sealskin ball with a single foot. The Team Alaska competitor did so at a height of 223.5 centimetres ...

A week of the Arctic Winter Games wrapped up Saturday in Wood Buffalo, Alta. Athletes, coaches and organizers delighted in the unique culture and contests of strength, skill and endurance.

Krista Kitekudlak, who's competing in Arctic Sports at the Arctic Winter Games, said she's already achieved her objective. "Being here is my goal, making my family proud," said the 15-year-old ...

The Arctic Winter Games is an event that hosts over 2,000 coaches, players and spectators. Almost as many volunteers are lending a hand to make it happen. Close to 2,000 people are volunteering ...

He told me that the Games pulled him out of teenage depression and into his Tlingit language after feeling shame as a minority in Alaska. Now an Arctic Winter Games coach, he's a role model for ...