Whitehorse Daily Star

April 2, 2009

• Chamber happy with new Yukon budget The new $1-billion-plus territorial budget is a positive for the Yukon, says the Yukon Chamber of Commerce.
• Musher Gatt no longer excited by big races "I've been thinking about retiring from racing for at least a couple of years," Hans Gatt said last Saturday,
• Chillax'n Lounge marks anniversary The Canada Games Centre could be swarmed with youth Saturday night in celebration of the first anniversary since the doors of the Chillax'n Lounge for youth opened.
• Council members to visit Whistler City taxpayers will be footing the bill to send four council members to Whistler, B.C. in June after a vote by council last week.
• Left To Burn Firefighters and Whitehorse RCMP were called to the scene of a truck fire on Range Road
• CYFN asks Ottawa to intervene in child act The territory's top chief wants the federal government to intervene on Yukon first nations' behalf before the Child and Family Advocate Act is passed in the legislative assembly.
• Working With Words Emma, left, reads to Mike Kenny, a Whitehorse Rotary Club member,
• McIntyre Creek park widely supported The Friends of McIntyre Creek are waiting to hear from territorial and city officials about a development moratorium pending a further decision on territorial park status.
• Bush party fracas saw man jailed seven months Anthoney Skookum spent seven months in jail waiting for the chance to prove his innocence.

April 1, 2009

• Dawson City short film festival to begin April 9 Imagine an international film festival in a community of 1,800, fewer than 400 kilometres from the Arctic Circle.
• Pondering the concept of place in under seven minutes About 100 people squeezed into one of the second floor studio classrooms at the Klondike Institute of Arts and Culture's School of Visual Arts last Friday night
• Exhibit On Martin Berkman is showing Remote Sensebility in the Yukon Arts Centre Gallery.
• Panel approves enhancement work The joint Canadian-U.S. Yukon River Panel has approved $1 million US worth of restoration and enhancement work.
• Ottawa not obliged to show document: judge The federal government does not have to release a research document on the history of the Kaska people of northwest British Columbia, or at least not yet.
• Mushers relive memorable tale from the trail Matthew McHugh was not quite as thrilled to win a Red Lantern for last place in the Percy De Wolfe Memorial Race as he was last year for winning it in the Junior Percy.
• City is clearing paved trails City staff are asking residents to be cautious on paved trails around town,
• Dogging it This relaxed canine posed for the camera
• Parasite is attacking the hearts of salmon: scientist The face of the disease affecting Yukon River chinook is changing.
• Minister offers MLA help with his sums In addition to managing his department, Public Works Minister Archie Lang is offering financial management courses,
• Peel watershed draft plan picked The final draft of a land-use plan has been completed for a vast tract of the Yukon cherished by environmentalists and industry alike.
• Council adopts zoning changes A number of changes to city zoning are now in effect after council passed second and third readings of the bylaw at its March 23 meeting.
• Primary health care nurses jobs filled For the first time in at least 10 years, the Yukon government has filled every permanent primary health care nurse position in the communities,
• The Joy Of Books Morgan, second from right, reads to Al Hartley, while in the background,
• First flu case confirmed Spring and the flu arrived just about the same time in the Yukon.
• Addictions professionals attended workshop The territorial Alcohol and Drug Services hosted a training workshop on substance abuse and pregnancy Tuesday.
• Chum salmon run has scientists optimistic This year's run of fall chum salmon up the Yukon River is looking good, though it has scientists scratching their head somewhat.
• Helping The Hungry Capt. Robert Sessford of the Salvation Army, Fred Wilson, the manager of the Real Canadian Superstore, and Kate O'Donnell, with Maryhouse
• NEB moves to release tank farm land though subdivision proposal uncertain The owner of the tank farm land nestled in-between Hamilton Boulevard and Hillcrest says it difficult to say what will happen to the 60 hectares.
• Names won't be linked to data: city When the city reviews the census information it plans to collect during its voter enumeration this year, it won't be connecting the names of residents to the information.
• Jail project will start without final designs in place "Flying by the seat of its pants," was how Liberal Leader Arthur Mitchell described the Yukon government's approach to building the new $67-million correctional centre Tuesday.
• Judge awards damages in wake of 2005 collision The governments of Canada and the Yukon are on the hook for more than $600,000 worth of damages in a civil suit, a Yukon judge decided this week.

March 31, 2009

• All night at the Dawson City Museum DAWSON CITY- It's Monday night at the Dawson City Museum and the lights are still on.
• They're Off The teams making up the Junior Percy DeWolfe Memorial Race
• Rural Yukon drivers slam into poles Three people from communities outside Whitehorse are facing charges after the local RCMP were called to the scenes of two vehicles that collided with poles late Monday afternoon.
• Mayor 'not aware' of CBC tower proposals Political posturing is no match for the City of Whitehorse's grand development plans which threaten the fate of CBC's AM radio antenna,
• Makeshift women's jail to evolve into group home A temporary women's jail
• Proposed changes prompt concerns to senior Yukon judge A new criminal law proposed by the ruling federal Conservative Party won't change much in the Yukon, because the territory already follows the principle the government is proposing.
• 'This is the kind of centre I'd like to run' The Yukon's assistant deputy minister of community justice is so impressed by the territory's planned correctional facility,
• College students to dig deeper for tuition Most Yukon College students will be paying more for their courses next year.
• Here Comes An Icon Mike Bolt, the Keeper of the Stanley Cup,