Our not-so-public federal building - Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:00:54 GMT
For the last four years, Blood Ties Four Directions has hosted its annual AIDS walk at the Elijah Smith Building in downtown Whitehorse. But this year, the local nonprofit can’t afford it. | Bust and boom in Atlin - Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:00:52 GMT
For two years, Gary Heisler had this town’s restaurant market cornered. His burgers and crabcake sandwiches were the only dishes people could get here. It was a boon for Heisler, but it also meant visitors from Whitehorse and Skagway avoided Atlin because of the lack of options. | Peel Watershed: you use it, you lose it - Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:00:44 GMT
Jimmy Johnny was growing tired of the pesky reporters he was guiding. Back in Mayo, he didn’t mind mingling with these strangers. | Messy miner wants to keep digging - Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:00:34 GMT
When Joel White went looking for gold in Tombstone Park 10 years ago, he left behind a mess. There were leaking fuel barrels, boxes of unattended explosives, trenches that were never filled and tarps blowing around in the wind. | Time travelling with psychedelic lights and Cold War warning systems - Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:00:24 GMT
Charles Stankievech’s masterpiece resembles a military station on an acid trip. It’s a 10-foot-tall soccer ball-like dome with lights that psychedelically flash the colours of the rainbow. | Biggest turnout for Chili and Beans - Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:00:04 GMT
The grub at the finish line was extra delicious for Whitehorse paddler Jason Doucet on Wednesday. Not only did he defend his title at the Chili and Beans Downriver Canoe and Kayak Race, this time he won it all by his lonesome. | Loose dog threatened with poison - Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:00:45 GMT
Christina Kerley is keeping a close watch on her two dogs after discovering a threatening message taped to her mailbox last week. | Solar energy can water livestock - Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:00:43 GMT
Farmers can now rely on the sun to quench the thirst of their livestock. Through solar panels, the watering system taps the sun’s energy to pump water from a source, like a pond, up to the livestock’s troughs. | Trail blazing - Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:00:43 GMT
Trail blazing I was talking to a guy the other day who was all excited because he and his buddies were planning to punch a quad trail into Rose Lake that weekend. They weren’t hunters, just four dudes out for a day of adventure tearing up the Yukon wilde | The gamble to find housing in Whitehorse - Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:00:40 GMT
The McKenna family is feeling lucky. They were one of 158 people who put their name in a hat for a chance to win one of seven lots in Porter Creek. |
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Northwest Passage tanker could be stuck for days - Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:37:17 EDT
It could be days before a fuel tanker carrying 9.5 million litres of diesel is dislodged from a sandbar in the Northwest Passage. | Yukon legislative session starts early - Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:54:54 EDT
The Yukon's MLAs will return to the legislature on Sept. 21 for the fall session, a month earlier than usual, Premier Dennis Fentie has announced. | Northern living costs top Layton's priorities - Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:12:52 EDT
Federal NDP leader Jack Layton says Canada should assert its sovereignty over the Arctic not with military strength but with support for northern communities. | Iqaluit to craft 100-year green plan - Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:00:39 EDT
The City of Iqaluit has received federal funding to develop a 100-year vision for a more environmentally sustainable city. | Alta. premier to meet Pelosi over oilsands - Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:52:45 EDT
Premier Ed Stelmach is scheduled to meet with the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, next Wednesday in Ottawa. | Yukon wildfire season normal: official - Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:15:32 EDT
This week marks the end of the Yukon's latest forest fire season, which territorial fire officials say was about average compared to other years. | Greenpeace activists arrested on Greenland rig - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:08:47 EDT
Four Greenpeace activists have been arrested after they climbed onto an oil rig off Greenland's western coast this week, trying to halt Arctic offshore drilling. | Yukon tenant act review worries landlords - Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:36:29 EDT
Some Yukon landlords say they're worried a new Landlord and Tenant Act may include onerous and unreasonable new rights for tenants. | U.S. hunter's caribou may be record size - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:52:32 EDT
A Montana bow hunter may have claimed the largest recorded mountain caribou in the Northwest Territories, which could make it one of the largest in the world. | Luxury yacht turns heads in Arctic - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:39:38 EDT
One of the world's most luxurious private yachts made an unexpected appearance recently in the High Arctic hamlet of Pond Inlet, Nunavut, on its way through the Northwest Passage. |
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