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With a history of nearly two decades, the Yukon's leading award-winning magazine showcases the territory’s exceptional people, culture, wildlife, and wild places.

07/25/2026

The YUKON Magazine co-publisher Tammo Walter kicks off a new season of the podcast with some reflections on his recent rookie experience in the Kluane-to-Chilkat International Bike Relay. Then he shifts gears to highlight another staple event of the waning Yukon summer, the Paradise Music Festival. He speaks with festival organizer Tim Milsom about the Yukon’s very own electro-eden.

Further he’s joined by editor-in-chief Kanina Holmes to discuss the upcoming print-edition of The Yukon Magazine, which has a special theme that’s also reflected in this podcast series.

Finally, Tammo shares a few clips from audio-episodes coming your way over the next three months.

CREDITS
Hosted and written by Tammo Walter
Mixed and edited by Mark Koepke


Paradise Music Festival

Everything flows from here.Every Yukon river tells a story.Some carved mountains. Some built communities. Some carried d...
07/24/2026

Everything flows from here.
Every Yukon river tells a story.

Some carved mountains. Some built communities. Some carried dreams, supplies, salmon, and generations of knowledge. Today they continue to shape how we live, work, travel, and imagine the North.

Our Fall Special Edition celebrates the rivers that define the Yukon through history, culture, recreation, business, food, poetry, and the challenges of a changing climate.

Find it on newsstands, onboard Air North, Yukon's Airline , or subscribe to receive your copy in the mail.

🎙️ The journey has already begun—listen to our new podcast series wherever you get your podcasts.



Coverphoto: Jason Wolsky Northern Drone Services

The Yukon seasons don't wait.Neither should you.The Fall Issue lands August 1, packed with northern adventures, remarkab...
07/11/2026

The Yukon seasons don't wait.
Neither should you.

The Fall Issue lands August 1, packed with northern adventures, remarkable people, local stories, and enough Yukon to keep you going well into October.

Subscribe now before you're forced to borrow your neighbour's copy. Cut-off date for the upcoming issue: July 16.

https://theyukonmagazine.com/

07/10/2026

NEW EPISODE: Now the author of two books and many articles in major publications, Eva Holland was just getting started in 2012. That’s when she was offered a 10-month back-fill position with Up Here magazine. “It was the break I was waiting for,” she says, “and I spent those months in an informal feature-writing boot-camp.”

In this episode, Eva chats with The YUKON Magazine’s co-publisher, Tammo Walter, about her evolution as a northern writer and what it means to “write the North.” She then reads a timeless story titled “I Found the Sweet Life,” which chronicles a week she spent among Skagway’s seasonal workers during her “boot-camp” era more than a decade ago.

"This story,” she explains, “was my first foray into the sort of immersive first-person reporting that would become my trademark.”

The rest is history.

Listen to the episode on your favourite podcast platform or follow this link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1874938/episodes/19466648

Interview by Tammo Walter
Reading by Eva Holland
Mixed and edited by Mark Koepke
Portrait Photo by GBPCreative

The Yukon runs on one road.It's something most of us don't think about until the grocery shelves look a little thinner—o...
07/10/2026

The Yukon runs on one road.
It's something most of us don't think about until the grocery shelves look a little thinner—or the news starts talking about washouts, wildfires or closures farther south.

Our latest enviro column explores why food security matters in the Yukon, how much progress we've made with local food production, and why community gardens might be doing more than just growing vegetables.

Story by Meredith Deen

Serious question: If every grocery truck stopped for a week... what would you miss first?
Be honest. Coffee doesn't count. (Okay... maybe coffee counts.)

06/28/2026

It’s early summer, which means it’s baby season in the Yukon wilderness. And because we could all use a little extra cuteness in our lives now and then, here’s a small photo compilation from nature’s northern nursery. Enjoy!



Photos: Manu Keggenhoff Photography

NEW EPISODE: Next level birding—it's not the sleepy pastime you thought. Inspired, sort of, by Karen McColl’s cover stor...
06/27/2026

NEW EPISODE: Next level birding—it's not the sleepy pastime you thought. Inspired, sort of, by Karen McColl’s cover story for the 2026 Summer issue of The YUKON Magazine, our producer Mark Koepke tracks down some Whitehorse birders—and asks to record their appealing songs. Take a listen to Marks hilarious venture into the world of northern bird nirds.

Hosted by Tammo Walter
Produced by Mark Koepke
Karen McColl

On Thursday this week our brilliant editor-in-chief Kanina Holmes, received the Michener Award at Rideau Hall in Ottawa....
06/20/2026

On Thursday this week our brilliant editor-in-chief Kanina Holmes, received the Michener Award at Rideau Hall in Ottawa. We’re so proud of her achievement.

Kanina Holmes writes:
„A magic soiree at Rideau Hall in Ottawa last night for the Michener Awards. I am proud and humbled and blessed to be a journalist and a journalism educator. I love working with students and, to get a chance to develop training that will support them, our craft, and our mission, means the world.

A huge shout out to Jessica Patterson, for inviting me to work with her on the a project focusing on AI literacy that was awarded The Michener – L. Richard O’Hagan Fellowship for Journalism Education.

Our new Governor General, Her Excellency, The Right Honourable Louise Arbour—who is funny and delightful and brilliant—requested time last night with some of our Carleton University School of Journalism students, and they were thrilled.

There is such hope and light out there. We just need to see it and find ways to strengthen it.“

Gravel biking may feel like a relatively new corner of cycling, but in many ways it brings the sport back to where it st...
06/13/2026

Gravel biking may feel like a relatively new corner of cycling, but in many ways it brings the sport back to where it started: rough roads, mixed surfaces, long distances, and a little uncertainty about what comes next.

With the Kluane Chilkat International Bike Relay coming up on June 20th, from Haines Junction to Haines, cycling is very much on our radar. And while KCIBR is not a gravel ride, the Yukon has more than enough rough roads, back roads, construction zones, and in-between terrain to make a gravel bike feel right at home.

In this conversation from our archive, originally released in 2022, then-host Karen McColl speaks with Ian Parker about the rise of gravel biking , or, as he calls it, mixed-surface riding. They talk about why the Yukon is such a natural place for it, how gravel sits somewhere between road cycling and mountain biking, and why the best bike might simply be the one that gets you out there.

A timely look back at a cycling movement that keeps gaining ground.

CREDITS
Intro by Tammo Walter
Interview by Karen McColl
Produced by Mark Koepke

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