Klondike Sun

Just before ten o’clock they began to gather on a frosty, sunny Thursday morning, lining the boardwalks on both sides of King Street beside the Old Post Office and the Palace Grand Theatre, a picture perfect setting for the start of the last great dog race of the 2004 season, the 28th annual Percy...
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Peter Jenkins, MLA for Klondike and Minister of Health, could have been forgiven a touch of self-satisfaction as he looked around the tables in the Downtown Hotel’s conference room on March 3 and prepared the audience for an announcement he’s been wanting to make for years. There will be a bridge built across the Yukon...
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Yukoners Greg and Denise McHale were the big winners in this year’s Fulda Challenge Extreme Arctic Adventure. As Team Canada they captured the golden prizes and the glory in the thirteen event week long contest. What is more, RCMP officer McHale took the prize for best male athlete, and fitness instructor Denise tied for second...
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If a building can feel emotion, then Dawson's city council chambers were probably still in a state of shock the morning after the Bridge Awareness Campaign meeting on February 4. It's been many, many months since over thirty people were in that room at one time. The meeting was called by a group of twelve...
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On the day that Colonel Norris Pettis, the Commander of Canadian Forces Northern Area, visited Dawson City, a small squad of the Canadian Rangers he had come to visit had just participated in a rescue operation that turned out to be less of a crisis than people had feared.
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