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ANCHORAGE — Alaska-Miners were pulling gold out of eastern Alaska even before the thousands of fortune hunters rushed north to the Klondike gold fields next door in Canada’s Yukon Territory ...
As ice breaks on the Yukon River, Jake Pogrebinsky looks at the water from shore, searching for a large log floating ...
Alaska and Yukon Territory collaborate to improve Alaska Highway, likely to benefit the whole region. advertisement.
Meghan and Marko Marjanovic's book features 80 hiking routes in the Yukon. (Courtesy image) This week on Outdoor Explorer, we visit our neighbors to the east in Whitehorse, Canada, to speak to ...
A new book shows that the Northern Dene people of Alaska and Canada have known far more about the stars than an earlier ...
A temperature of 40 below zero is not enough to cool the gold fever. Last week gold was struck in Poorman, Alaska, 50 miles south of Ruby on the Yukon River. Sergeant William N. Growden, U.S.A., ...
In 2021, when Alaska Native families on the Yukon weren’t allowed to fish for chum or kings, Bering Sea trawlers incidentally scooped up more than 18,000 western Alaska kings and 51,500 chums.
Civil War veteran Charles Raymond was 27 when he accepted an assignment to visit the new U.S. territory of Alaska, a place so far away from his home in New An early ascent of the Yukon River ...
A new “high-altitude airborne object” was shot down over Canada’s Yukon territory, senior U.S. and Canadian officials said Saturday evening, the latest in what has become a string of ...
She said it was downed in central Yukon, about 100 miles from a U.S.-Canada border. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is working with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to identify the object.
The Alaska maps are based on the work done by pioneering geologist Helen Foster. Now 94, Foster was one of few women geologists of her era. She became famous for her work mapping Japan's geology ...