Whitehorse Daily Star

April 14, 2010

• Festival adjudicators boast impressive credentials Here is a rundown of the résumés of the adjudicators working in this week's Rotary Music Festival.
• Hundreds of students performing in festival The 10-day Rotary Music Festival, featuring young musical talent from across the territory, began today and will culminate with two final concerts on April 24.
• Liquor corporation eliminates single-use bags In keeping with the spirit of Earth Week,
• Helping The Community The Canadian Tire store team was the big winner in the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Yukon
• Takhini North contract awarded to Norcope Norcope Enterprises Ltd. will indeed be responsible for putting in water and sewer lines and other underground utilities in the new areas of Takhini North this year.
• Warmer days bring trail funding approval Warmer weather, not to mention a $125,000 boost to the city's budget, will soon see a crew of workers out in full force fixing up Whitehorse trails.
• Minister overlooked a vital part of the issue ( Analysis ) Ensuring Yukon residents' interests were protected with respect to mineral staking and claims' rights within municipal boundaries,
• Hydro project's demise would cost $12 million If the Mayo B hydro proposal fell off the rails for some reason,
• Nourishing Nibble A swan takes a nibble out of another in the McIntyre Creek area
• Avalanche victim's body recovered The body of a skier who died in Kluane National Park and Reserve last weekend has been recovered.
• Whistle Bend development pact to be signed A fate of the first two phases of the city's next major residential development will soon be formally in the hands of the Yukon government.
• Corporation's mortgage portfolio to stay put First it was the public utility; now Premier Dennis Fentie is considering the sale of the Yukon Housing Corporation's mortgage portfolio,
• Couple files suit over bison ownership The Yukon's only bison ranchers are suing the territorial government, because after 17 years of caring for their herd, they don't own a single animal.

April 13, 2010

• Officials anticipate a spring free of high water problems It should be an uneventful spring break-up, says the Yukon government's manager of hydrology.
• Government prepared to ink caribou management plan A harvest management plan to strengthen the conservation of the Porcupine caribou herd has been finalized,
• Far North Sovereignty Operation Canadian Ranger Kelinda Sax, from Carcross Patrol
• Timelines related to ATCO controversy recalled June 8, 2009: Willard Phelps, chair of Yukon Energy and of the Yukon Development Corporation, resigns from both positions.
• Afternoon Enlightenment Swans socialize
• President queried on turbulence surrounding YEC Caught between a premier who allegedly tried selling public electrical assets to an Outside firm and corroborating statements from former Yukon Energy Corp.
• More details about proposed parkade explained to council A multi-level parkade at Third Avenue and Steele Street
• NDP questions Horne on officers' acquittals The case is officially closed,
• Efforts to revive skier were fruitless Police and park rangers are attempting to recover the body of a man killed in an avalanche in Kluane National Park over the weekend.

April 12, 2010

• Once upon a time after time after time Reading Janet Patterson's memo to newsrooms about Yukon Energy's time clock problems (Star, April 6)
• Students help advocate launch new book With the help of local students and dignitaries,
• A Fiery End Whitehorse firefighters were called to this Jeep Cherokee fire at 9:52 a.m. Saturday
• Veterans Memorial Vets March
• Rock garden and snow dump could soon be in city's hands Two new chunks of land next to the Hamilton Boulevard extension could soon be in the city's hands
• Honouring The Fallen War veterans prepare to walk to the Yukon government administration building on Friday morning
• Dawson now up to a full council All the seats are now full in Dawson council chambers after Bill Kendrick was acclaimed to the vacancy left by former councillor Ashley Doiron in February.
• Corner Collision As if Friday's weather wasn't misery enough
• MLA still wants inquiry into YEC affair The scandal over Premier Dennis Fentie's attempts to privatize the Yukon Energy Corp.(YEC) again took centre stage
• MLA still wants inquiry into YEC affair The scandal over Premier Dennis Fentie's attempts to privatize the Yukon Energy Corp.(YEC) again took centre stage
• Ground broken for new housing project Construction is well underway,
• Senator promotes guaranteed income model Like so many who have come before him, Hugh Segal sees opportunity in the Yukon.