The risk of serious flooding in the Klondike River valley near Dawson City, Yukon, appears to have passed, with the release of an ice jam and a significant drop in the river level on Tuesday.

In 1896, a man by the name of Skookum Jim found gold near the Klondike River in Yukon Territory, Canada. This sparked a gold rush the next year as hopeful miners, known as "stampeders," descended upon ...

People in Dawson City, Yukon, and other residents in the lower Yukon River basin should prepare for possible flooding this year, as above-average snowpack in the region melts. Snowpack is one factor ...

The most common route taken by those taking part in the stampede to reach the Klondike was by boat, from the West Coast of the continental U.S. to Skagway in Alaska, over the Chilkoot or White Passes ...

Heard around the Swedish side of my family's wood cook stove decades ago was the story of a cousin who left Ballard in search of Klondike gold. As the story went, he launched his adventure with a pal ...

The Yukon love story of Mary Emily Fellows of Montour and Ely Ebenezer Weare of Cedar Rapids was reported across the country in 1899. Mary had graduated from the Iowa State Agricultural College in ...

Reporting from SKAGWAY, Alaska — Summer days are endless here. I opened my eyes to sunlight streaming in my hotel window before 4 a.m. It didn’t disappear until after 10 p.m., leaving more than 18 ...

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Sept. 19, 2012) - On July 7th, 2012 the 50/50 joint venture between Klondike Gold Corp. (KG.V) and 46799 Yukon Inc., was formed to operate a placer mining ...

The historic S.S. Klondike sternwheeler in Whitehorse is getting a $14.2-million makeover, thanks to some new federal funding. The vessel was one of the many sternwheelers that once travelled Yukon's ...

In her new book, Provensen effectively puts a human face on the 1897 stampede into Yukon Territory after gold is discovered on the banks of the Klondike River, and bases her narrator on an actual ...