The Atlin Barge was usually the last thing that people noticed when they came to the banks of the Yukon River to gush over Whitehorse’s most iconic attraction — a vintage, steam-powered paddlewheeler.

Oh, the stories that Beausoleil Island can tell to those willing to listen. Some from the thousands of years that Indigenous Peoples gathered, traded, farmed and lived on what the Anishinaabeg called Baamidoonegog, “rocky place floating about the mouth of a river.” Others that begin in 1929 when Ottawa answered calls to protect the Ontario island from cottage country development and it formed the core of Georgian Bay Islands National Park.

Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park will close for the season this Sunday at midnight. The Going-to-the-Sun Road typically closes each year on or before the third Monday in October, depending on road and weather conditions.

Two moderate earthquakes, one of which registered as a magnitude 5 temblor, rattled the island of Hawaii on Friday morning and could be related to recent geologic activity at Mauna Loa in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.