Check out the CBC North stories nominated for RTDNA awards

CBC North has been nominated for several Radio Television Digital News Association nominations in diversity, breaking news, sports, radio and television for coverage in 2018.

In the eastern region, CBC North, the only finalist in thiscategory, is nominated foran RTDNA award for its breaking news coverageof the fire at Iqaluit's Northmart in November.

• 'Not a time to panic,' said Iqaluit mayor after Northmart store fire forces evacuations

CBC North has three nominationsfor its coverage of the Arctic Winter Games and it's nominated for two others, including live radio hockey coverage in Inuktitut. CBC North had a team on the ground in Fort Smith and Hay River, N.W.T., covering the athletes and the results, as well as sports on the decline and an alleged assault.

• Arctic Winter Games 2018

Continuing coverage online and radioof Nunavut's tuberculosis epidemic, which continues to plague Inuit at a rate of 290 times higher than non-IndigenousCanadians, isnominated for the Ron Laidlaw Award.

CBC Igalaaq is nominated for being on the ground, or the boat as it were, for a successful bowhead whale hunt in Iqaluit. It was breaking news in the community, where it had been seven years since hunters had harvested a bowhead.

CBC Igalaaq: Iqaluits bowhead whale hunt

6 years ago

Duration 4:52

In August 2018, young hunters from Iqaluit harvested their first bowhead whale since 2011, which can feed hundreds of people. CBC Igalaaq tagged along.

Reporter Jordan Konek's long featurePolar Bears vs. People is up for a Dave Rogers Award. Konek'sTV story, which looked at how the community of Arviat, Nunavut, is handling an influx of polar bears, was the first in The National history to air in Inuktitut.

Inuit community calls for change in polar bear protection measures

6 years ago

Duration 4:53

The town of Arviat, Nunavut, is perched on the western shore of Hudson Bay. Bear patrols are one of the measures used to keep residents safe from hungry, roving polar bears in the remote community. But deadly attacks have occurred. The community blames polar bear protection measures and says they need to change because they put the polar population ahead of human safety.

That story is up against one of our ownCBC North's Cree unit is also nominated for First Contact, Waskaganish 350.The story, which aired onMaamuitaau,looked at how aBritish navalship's arrival 350 years ago had an impact on the northern Quebec community.

Maamuitaau - Waskaganish 350

6 years ago

Duration 20:15

A British ship arrived in today's Waskaganish 350 years ago, marking the beginning of the trades between the Cree and the Hudson Bay Company.

Roadside Moose Harvest: A Story of Gratitude,from our Whitehorse office, has been nominated in the western region for an Adrienne Clarkson Award in diversity. Ittold the story of a non-Indigenous man's experience harvesting a moose with four First Nations men.

• How a school bus driver and 4 First Nation members came together to harvest a moose

Whitehorse is also up for an award for best technical innovation for its coverage of the wildfires in northern B.C. The small communities of Telegraph Creekand Lower Post lost a number of structuresin the fires.

In the prairie region, radio coverage dominatednominations in the Northwest Territories.