Story & Photo by Dan Davidson
The purchase of the Old CIBC Building on Front Street by the City of Dawson at the end of January was just the first step in the town’s plan to save the place from further decay and end years of complaints from both locals and visitors about the state of [...]

Winter isn’t gone yet.

If this keeps up the tourists won’t have to ask us what we do with the Ice Bridge in the summer.
 
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Two paratroopers touch down on the river ice as part of a SAR exercise.
Story & Photos
by Dan Davidson
The yellow CC-115 Buffalo aircraft circled above the Yukon River half a dozen times before the two parachutists bailed out and their orange chutes bloomed, looking a lot like the paraglider wings that often slide across the Dawson [...]

Michelle Phillips and her team haul the mailbag from the start chute at 10:03 a.m. on Saturday.
Story & Photo
by Dan Davidson
It was minus 24, with the sun just creeping over the hill and a loader just spreading the last of the fresh snow on King Street when the crowd began to gather for the [...]

Gillian Campbell and the Snowshoe Shufflers gave Trekkers a classic, gold rush show at Gertie’s on March 8 and 9.
Story by Lisa McKenna
Photos by Alice Thompson
Gillian Campbell was at Diamond Tooth Gertie’s this past weekend and it was a show to remember.
Gillian has entertained in Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, all over the States, [...]

Trekking across the Ice Bridge on February 28.
Photos & Story
by Dan Davidson
An enthusiastic first group of Trek Over the Top sleds began to arrive in Dawson just after 1:30 p.m. local time, having taken off from Tok, Alaska, at about 8:30 (their time, 9:30 Yukon time) that morning.
Those first three riders were followed by [...]