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Fire officials in Skagway, Alaska, say a truck hauling a camper caught fire on Friday afternoon, at the summit of the White Pass.

Find a primary care provider program serves Whitehorse while communities get health centres

Over the past few weeks, Dawson City, Yukon, residents have had their eyes on the sky. Some residents have reported seeing what they have described as a ball of fire flying through the sky before it disappears.

Recipients recognized for volunteer work and leadership

The move is to provide a modernized solid waste system in the territory

There are still questions about why water is flowing onto a handful of properties in the Annie Lake Road area south of Whitehorse.

Tim Sellars looks back at his volunteer work on Mount Sima and elsewhere

Government says ample consulation occurred

Generations ago, Kóogháa Nélíní was a gathering place. The Tagish Kwan of what’s now the southern Yukon would travel here from up and down the river, paddling canoes or poling rafts to where the current narrowed through high basalt cliffs and turned frothy as it cascaded over the rocky floor. Under bright summer skies, the Tagish Kwan would spear salmon close to shore in the shallow sections of the rapids and hang their catch to dry on the banks. The smell of campfire smoke hung in the a...

Revised - Premier Sandy Silver delivered a record capital budget Thursday of $434.3 million, most of it going to the Department of Highways and Public Works, as is generally the case. The capital budget for 2021-2022 is 17 per cent greater than the $369.6 million budgeted for the current fiscal year, according to government documents. The budget for Highways and Public Works for the 2021-2022 fiscal year has been set at $192.5 million, representing a 19.3 per cent or $31-million increase over t...