Life

By Leighann ChalykoffNews ReporterKaren LaPrairie meets people in the last few days of their lives.

It was a parking lot, but it resembled a wrecking yard.And, on the street lay more shattered hulks, many burned to the shell.

It was a vacation to a sun-drenched, exotic location — complete with long beaches, thick rainforest and lava-spewing volcanoes.

There are about 150 million square kilometres of space on the Earth.Scientists estimate there are between 30 and 50 million animal species and 6.

DAWSON CITYHundreds of years ago in Costa Rican caves, druids toiled to turn metals into gold.To keep the local villagers away from their secret…

It’s Tuesday afternoon in the Elijah Smith School’s gym and a couple hundred students are sitting in rows on the wooden floor.

Sometimes life is just like the movies.This is what 12-year-old Miguel Rodden realized last week when he was suddenly discovered.

This week, five-year-old Sam Crocker will make his filmmaking debut.“He heard about the film festival and asked his mother how to make a…

‘Lift up your voices and sing,” Linda Tillery proclaims in her rendition of the traditional spiritual Lift Ev’ry Voice.

DAWSON CITYGlen Everitt is barely through the front door when he says, “I don’t have much time for this.