Shovel ready: Researchers to publish guide on work life balance for prospective miners
A pair of researchers from the University of Vienna travelled nearly 7,500 kilometres to get a sense of what it’s like for Yukon workers who work by travelling in and out of mining camps.
Online guide makes it easy to find Yukon farmers to feed you
It must be spring. The swans are back, the mud is beginning to overtake the snow, and Yukon Agricultural Association’s online Yukon Farm Products and Services Guide is updated with this year’s info.
Yukon fossil helps scientists pinpoint when bison arrived in North America
Scientists have discovered that an unprepossessing fossil found near Old Crow likely belonged to one of the earliest bison that lived in North America.
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Study says rents in most cities are unaffordable for lower-income earners
You’ve got to be kidding me: Yukon’s locally made goat cheese supplier closes shop
As several goats wander around their barn, eating hay under the watchful eye of three Great Pyrenees dogs, Brian Lendrum takes a few moments to enjoy the sunny and balmy winter day.
Mapping the powder: New guide outlines ski routes in the Haines Pass
Claude Vallier was born in the mountains. He began skiing the French Alps when he was a year and a half old, and he’s been drawn to the slopes — in Europe and North America — ever since.
B.C. company hopes to use mine emissions to treat toxic water
Terra CO2 Technologies Ltd. thinks it has found a way for miners to use two major environmental impacts of mines to effectively cancel each other out.
At Herschel Island, history is eroding
Herschel Island has seen a lot of people come and go. The Inuvialuit have used the place, known as Qikiqtaruk in Inuvialuktun, for at least 1,000 years.
New research finds that humans may have lived in the Yukon 24,000 years ago
William Josie’s grandparents used to tell him stories about animals that don’t exist today.
BBQ duck, roasted pork: Whitehorse’s newest Chinese restaurant opens up
There’s more to Chinese cuisine than chow mein and ginger beef and that’s exactly what Whitehorse’s newest Chinese restaurant wants to show Yukoners.
Northern Tutchone artist says Yukon First Nations art isn’t what it used to be
You know about totem poles. You’ve seen the ravens, bears and thunderbirds on drums and button blankets. You’ve seen them depicted in red, black and blue-green, always using those rounded, bulging, oval-rectangular shapes called ovoids.
Yukon researchers use silicone oil to transport and preserve permafrost samples
Core samples of Yukon permafrost are on a 5,000-kilometre journey to Ottawa to be part of a permanent museum exhibit on the Arctic.
Researchers using drones to map changing Beaufort Sea coastline
There’s a little island off the coast of Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories that might be gone a few decades from now.
Scientists, artists team up with Indigenous communities in fight against climate change
Forty years ago, Margaret Ireland’s father noticed something only the trained eye could see: the shapes of pine needles around the community of Jean Marie River in the Northwest Territories were changing.
In a town built for thousands, Faro’s 400 souls dream big
Faro was once a boom town. Most of the people are long gone, but the streets and houses remain.