Whitehorse Daily Star

August 31, 2022

• Death ‘suspicious’: RCMP The Yukon RCMP’s Major Crime Unit is investigating “a suspicious death” north of Whitehorse.
• African music rocked the MacBride Photo Spread
• City is only place with COVID cases Whitehorse was the only Yukon community to officially have COVID-19 cases reported within its boundaries for Monday and Tuesday.
• Indigenous Guardian program gets major funding Steven Guilbeault, the federal minister of Environment and Climate Change, announced continued support for the Indigenous Guardian program to a large audience Monday afternoon at the Elijah Smith Building.
• Yukoners can apply for flood relief plan The Yukon government has launched the 2022 Flood Relief program to help residents pay for damages to their property and possessions caused by this year’s flooding.
• Landlords require a viable business model: association The Yukon Residential Landlord Association wants to make a major point crystal-clear, says president Lars Hartling.
• RCMP seek missing man Yukon RCMP are asking for the public’s assistance in locating a missing man.

August 30, 2022

• Police seek driver in Dawson City hit-and-run Dawson City RCMP are looking for witnesses and information related to a hit-and-run that left one person with serious injuries.
• Silver seeks to strengthen pan-Arctic relations in Iceland Premier Sandy Silver met with several government, business and civic leaders in Reykjavik, Iceland last week.
• Territories sign bilateral water management agreements The Yukon and Northwest Territories governments have signed two Bilateral Water Management agreements.
• More prescribed fire work planned for Mary Lake Yukon Wildland Fire Management staff were set to conduct another prescribed fire operation in the Mary Lake this week.
• Untreated wastewater is entering Yukon River Untreated wastewater will be pouring into the Yukon River in Whitehorse for an undetermined period of time.
• Inadequate monkeypox response stigmatizing the queer community, NDP says Inadequate monkeypox response stigmatizing the queer community, NDP says

August 29, 2022

• Minimize recreational use of river, city urges Due to a recent leak in a sanitary force main, the public is asked to minimize recreational use of the Yukon River around the Marwell area and downstream until further notice.
• Trevor’s plight brought to the stage Dogtown: The Musical, written by Roy Ness and Grant Simpson, is “based on the true story of Trevor the death row dog, which polarized the community and gained international attention.
• Annual salmon event held at Tatchun Creek The Council of Yukon First Nations-Yukon First Nation Salmon Stewardship Alliance hosted the annual Salmon Ceremony and Gathering on the Land in Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation traditional territory at Tatchun Creek last Thursday through Sunday.
• Silver delved into range of issues in Greenland Premier Sandy Silver represented the Yukon and advanced a number of key northern discussions at the Arctic Circle Greenland Forum, which took place Saturday through today in Nuuk, Greenland.
• An Outing At The Park Members of the Whitehorse Filipino Church of the Nazarene are seen Saturday at Rotary Peace Park.
• Team Yukon had YG’s best wishes The Yukon government wished Team Yukon 55+ the best of luck before participants began competing at the 2022 Canada 55+ Games in Kamloops, B.C.
• Highway open again following fatal collision The Alaska Highway reopened Saturday after it was closed last Thursday night after a commercial transport truck collided with the Sikani River Bridge.
• Affordable housing triplex completed The final Rapid Housing Initiative project in Whitehorse is finished, the Yukon Housing Corp. (YHC) said Friday.
• Lots delay ‘frustrating,’ YG acknowledges “Continued and chronic delays” associated with Phase 6 of the Whistle Bend subdivision are impairing the development of desperately-need housing, the Yukon Party says.