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Maintaining The PaceSubscribers only

March 16, 2010 at 2:40 pm

Whitehorse musher Hans Gatt leaves the Elim, Alaska checkpoint

THE CHAMP AND THE ROOKIESubscribers only

March 8, 2010 at 3:30 pm

Former Yukon Quest musher Lance Mackey, left, visits with rookie Newton Marshall.

Contenders have created a strong Quest field

December 30, 2009 at 4:32 pm

With three former champions, three runners-up and several other compelling entrants,

Beetles, fire: a double threat in a warming worldSubscribers only

October 7, 2009 at 3:02 pm

HAINES JUNCTION — A veil of smoke settled over the forest in the shadow of the St. Elias Mountains, in a wilderness whose spruce trees stood tall and gray, a deathly gray even in the greenest heart of a Yukon summer.

Mighty caribou herds are dwindlingSubscribers only

October 2, 2009 at 3:12 pm

This is one of an occasional series of stories leading up to December’s climate conference in Copenhagen,

Magnitude 3.8 quake shook the YukonSubscribers only

August 25, 2009 at 2:48 pm

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.8 on the Richter scale struck the northern Yukon early this morning.

Mushers welcome Quest’s earlier start dateSubscribers only

May 13, 2009 at 2:30 pm

Organizers of the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race have moved their 2010 start time up a week,

Delay possible in former Yukoner’s legal fate in U.S.Subscribers only

May 5, 2009 at 2:19 pm

Delay possible in former Yukoner's legal fate in U.S.

Key charge dismissed in 1975 slaying of Canadian activistSubscribers only

May 1, 2009 at 4:24 pm

A federal judge has dismissed a key charge against a former Whitehorse resident

Mackey keeps lead as Iditarod mushers face cold, Schnuelle second

March 17, 2009 at 5:27 pm

Lance Mackey remained in the driver's seat Monday in the 1,770-kilometre Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race,

All news by AP