Looking Back

Tribulations of the Yukon witch trials

In the early 1900s, chilling reports of ritual killings trickled out of the Northern wilds. Was it the hand of the occult? Or had the murderers simply gone mad? By Tristin Hopper

The Day the Beer Dried Up

By Randy Freeman -- After the Second World War, miners and prospectors flocked to gold-rich Yellowknife and drained the town’s most precious commodity. What ensued was a uniquely Northern crisis.

The Russians Are Coming

By Randy Freeman -- Fort Yukon was the Hudson’s Bay Company’s most remote and lucrative trading post. Too bad it was on Russian soil.

Roswell North

A story spreading on the Internet says 2000 Inuit disappeared after a light passed over their village in 1930. Is the truth out there? By Randy Freeman

A Case of Crossed Wires

How a well-known bush pilot came to die and spring back to life – all within a few days.