What's Up Yukon, the realization of Publisher Tammy Beese's dream, hit the streets in February of 2005 with the promise of ?All Northern. All Fun.?
The paper was edited by Darrell Hookey, an award-winning freelance writer who had jumped at the chance of exploring his love for all things Yukon, story telling and a regular paycheque.
In 1960, Ken Shortt?s dream of running a newspaper that everyone in the Yukon would want to read came true when the Yukon News (née Advertiser) started rolling off the presses. The weekly paper struggled to survive, competing with the Whitehorse Star, a fixture in Whitehorse since 1900. But Shortt?s hard work and his teaming up five years later with Dave Robertson eventually turned the thriving weekly into a daily. In 1965, the Yukon News expanded to become the North?s first daily newspaper since 1906. Time magazine took note.
