Whitehorse Daily Star

April 26, 2004

• Dawson City Film Festival growing in reputation and size DAWSON CITY Terry David Mulligan was blown away by the fifth Dawson City International Film Festival.
• Armed robber sentenced to federal pen time While a young man's plea to be sentenced to the Yukon's jail is emotionally compelling, the cold hard facts send him back to a federal penitentiary Outside, the chief territorial judge concluded today.
• Cantung, creditors reach agreement North American Tungsten has overcome what the head of the company described as a multimillion-dollar hurdle to get its Cantung operation back into production.
• Everybody's pretty shaken by it' The MLA for Copperbelt has been charged with sex crimes.
• Motorcyclist arrested after a short police chase After a short police chase through the city's downtown area and into an alley, a motorcyclist was arrested after he crashed his dirt bike early Sunday morning.
• Fire damages Porter Creek home A Porter Creek family's home suffered extensive damage Saturday after an early-morning blaze that started by a smouldering cigarette butt.
• MLA should take a leave, strategists say Political strategists believe the Copperbelt MLA should step aside until he's either been found guilty or innocent.
• Meeting hears methods to improve bus system A member of the Transit Improvement Committee is 'very hopeful' a series of meetings last week will mean enhancements made to the city's bus system.
• Bicycling teacher brushed with fame Good Morning, Dyea! It's not every day a Yukoner goes cycling with one of Hollywood's bigger stars.

April 25, 2004

• CHRISTMAS FIRE GUTS BLOCK An entire city block in downtown Whitehorse lies in a crazy, twisted heap of jagged, ice-covered ruins. It is all that remains of a complex of shops, offices, hotel rooms and apartments.

April 23, 2004

• Exploring the paranormal at the Kopper King On Dec. 31, 2000, New Year's Eve, I got a call from my paranormal ad in the newspaper.
• Dawson hosts a career fair at Tr'ond'k Hw'ch'in hall DAWSON CITY How many jobs will you hold in your working life?
• Music festival slated for June For many years, Haines Junction has held the Kluane Mountain Bluegrass Festival.
• Strange events in a community under siege There are two Canadian books on the nomination list for the 2004 Hugo Award. I reviewed of them, Robert J. Sawyer's Humans, last fall.
• Man had no visitors in 32-month jail stint A young man who says he spent his last stint in a federal penitentiary segregated from the other inmates because he owed money for drugs is fighting to stay in the Yukon's jail.
• Vancouver borrows works from permanent collection Works from the Yukon's Permanent Art Collection are on temporary loan to the Artists for Kids Gallery in North Vancouver as part of an exhibit of former Yukoner Ted Harrison's work.
• Rathburn case a wake-up'? The executive director of the Yukon division of the Canadian Mental Health Association says the territorial government has to start looking at alternative care measures for people with mental illness.
• Local girl names canine sleuth Someday, a fleeing criminal may come face to muzzle with an RCMP dog, meeting a four-legged crime buster named by a Whitehorse youngster.
• Hawks targeting songbirds It's a bird, it's a plane ... no, it's a northern harrier hawk.
• Jenkins' comment about young mother concerns the NDP The NDP is concerned with the Yukon's Health minister revealing publicly that someone is on social assistance.
• Accused remanded into jail custody A Watson Lake man accused of murdering a local bartender at a remote cabin was remanded into custody for another week.
• Local firm has lowest bids Golden Hill Ventures of Whitehorse has again submitted the lowest bid for a section of Alaska Highway reconstruction work between Burwash Landing and Destruction Bay.
• YTG not looking to hook fish facility The Yukon government won't be laying in the weeds waiting for Icy Waters Ltd. to mess up, a senior government official assured management of the fish farm Thursday.
• YTG chips in $1.2 M for 14 projects The territorial Community Development Fund (CDF) is contributing $1,193,713 toward 12 recently-approved projects.
• Council asked to modify heavy equipment plans The city's public works department is asking council to take the $325,000 it was going to use for a new truck and put it toward a tractor unit and a dump truck.
• Mayo Road home robbed A North Klondike Highway homeowner arrived home early Thursday evening to find a laundry list of items gone.