Whitehorse Daily Star

April 12, 2004

• Family still grieving after fatal crash Kelly Benson arrived in Whitehorse last week in time to catch the first court appearance of the Mountie charged after his wife died in the back of his police cruiser or so he thought.
• Second Conservative wants nomination It's official Don McKenzie wants to be in Ottawa.
• Pro-pot party plans Yukon candidate One Yukon candidate in the upcoming federal election wants to bring a higher profile to his lesser-known party.
• First nation votes down claims deal Members of the Carcross-Tagish First Nation have rejected their proposed land claim and self-government agreements becoming the first to do so.
• Chicken prices remain stable Local grocers have yet to see the price of chicken change due to the current mass culling of the birds in British Columbia.

April 11, 2004

• CAVE IN AT PUEBLO At 11:27 a.m. Wednesday, 21st inst., 18 minutes before the men on shift were to leave work for the noon meal, the west stope in the Pueblo mine caved in.

April 8, 2004

• Student taking her art future seriously Breighanna Quinsey, a 14-year-old F.H. Collins Secondary School student, has started to take her art more seriously in the last year or so.
• Another Arthur takes the adventure stage in The Keys to the Kingdom 'In the beginning was the Word.'
• Road-trip play West Edmonton Mall to hit the road Nakai Theatre and Gwaandak Theatre Adventures will take a road trip with Whitehorse resident Patti Flather's wild road-trip play, West Edmonton Mall.
• Dangerous offender loses appeal The Yukon Court of Appeal has dismissed a dangerous offender's argument he didn't get a fair trial on a forcible seizure charge when the trial judge kicked him out of the courtroom for being violent.
• Man stays mute about gashes A young man is sporting numerous gashes to his head, but police don't know yet how he ended up with the cuts.
• Accused is denied bid for third lawyer A woman accused of harbouring an escaped jail inmate won't be getting a third lawyer.
• Damage spooks motorist A motorist headed up Two Mile Hill got quite a scare late Wednesday afternoon as the driver's side passenger window in the Ford Windstar minivan suddenly shattered.
• YTG tells town to brace for suit The territorial government is making Dawson City council set aside money for a lawsuit from the company which lost its garbage collection contract because of a minister.
• Jobless rate dips down to historic Yukon minimum The Yukon's unemployment rate has never been lower.
• Transit body needed, city council told A permanent transit committee for Whitehorse is needed to provide a long-term vision and help avoid problems in service delivery, city council heard Monday night.
• Anthropologists meeting The Department of Tourism and Culture is hosting the 31st Annual Conference of the Alaska Anthropological Association.
• Filming will disrupt traffic Filming of The Big White by Man It's Cold Productions will cause minor traffic disruptions along the South Klondike Highway between Log Cabin and the Canada-U.S. border from Easter Monday until April 24.