If there had been any remaining doubt about the season’s shift to winter, it ended between October 21 and 23 when puddles of frazil ice began to crowd the Yukon River. There hadn’t been any at all on Wednesday, but by the end of Friday the river was full of the stuff. Folks in...
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Crews who were excavating at Dawson's new waste water treatment plant made a grisly discovery last week by unearthing three coffins containing human remains. Because the location is where the gallows once stood during the Klondike Gold Rush it is assumed that the remains belong to convicted criminals who were executed and subsequently buried on...
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Dawson City and the Klondike are rich in history, which is why Parks Canada has such a large presence here. There are five sites under the umbrella of Klondike National Historic Sites. The Dawson Historical Complex itself contains the downtown core buildings owned by Parks, including the Old Post Office, the Palace Grand Theatre, the...
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Charlotte Gray could not actually launch her latest book, Goldiggers: Striking it Rich in the Klondike, in Dawson City. The book won’t physically be in the stores until this coming Friday, so there were only a few copies in town: the ones she brought with her and the advance reading copy (or ARC) which...
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The students and staff at Robert Service School ran and walked a super Terry Fox run on September 10, raising $3823.00 for the cause of cancer research. In past years the run has been carried out as the last event of the day, and both runners and officials have suffered under a plague of black...
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