Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation is experiencing déjà vu.
Even while the First Nation fought a landmark court case against an agricultural lease in its traditional territory, another very similar lease...
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by Chris Oke
I thought everyone on earth was finally off the Atkins diet. Then I visited my stepmother.
For eight days, I was forced to survive as a pregnant woman with a healthy prejudice against animal proteins in a household...
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by Juliann Fraser
Dawson City’s recycling program is wasting away.
“The more we recycle, the more money we lose,” said Conservation Klondike Society president Jim Taggart.
“We’re getting penalized...
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by Genesee Keevil
A Whitehorse woman died after a head-on collision on the Alaska Highway early Sunday morning.
The crash took place near the Whitehorse weigh scales, when a car crossed the centre line and smashed into an oncoming Astro...
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by Chris Oke
Jack Layton and Olivia Chow, the first couple of the NDP, are on a Yukon holiday that makes room for politicking.
The federal party leader and Toronto MP are paddling the Alsek River in the Kluane National Reserve.
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by Jeremy Warren
When I was small, they called me Itchybum.
It was my part of our favourite neighbourhood game called Cowboys and Itchybums.
We chased each other endlessly through the long purple summer evenings of my boyhood,...
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by Richard Wagamese
The glamorous way to go . . .
Air travel, once the glamour girl of the travel game, has lost its glamour, and they’re blaming it all on fuel prices. Really?
Remember when customers were kings and queens,...
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by Doug Bell
It is a dilemma familiar to pet and livestock owners everywhere: what to do with the animals while going on vacation.
Gardeners have the added headache of their crops that might whither away if left at the mercy of the...
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by Lisa Hasselbring
It was 1941, and the United States had just waded in to the Second World War.
The country had planes and cars and trucks that it needed to defend Alaska and the Northwest. And those planes and cars and trucks needed...
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A newly hired claims investigator has already saved the Yukon Workers’ Compensation Health and Safety Board more than $1.5 million from fraudulent claims, officials reported at a briefing Tuesday.
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by Tristin Hopper
Four Yukon fire-prevention aircraft have answered the call to protect parched northern BC forests from a potential slate of weekend fires.
The aircraft, which are part of the Whitehorse-based Firecats airtanker group,...
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by Tristin Hopper
