Whitehorse Daily Star

February 10, 2020

• Cooke tells of helping stranded musher All looked normal when Richie Beattie’s team first became visible on the Yukon River a mile out from Dawson City.
• River reported as ‘horrible’ into Dawson City Olivia Shank-Neff was the only Yukon Quest musher not to have reached the Dawson City checkpoint by Friday evening.
• Two more scratches reduce Quest field to 11 Dave Dalton, the musher who has completed the most Yukon Quests (23) and started the most (30), has scratched from the 37th Quest.
• Leaders making beeline for Braeburn The two leaders of the 37th Yukon Quest, Michelle Phillips and Brent Sass, burned through the Carmacks checkpoint late last night and early today.
• Phillips reaches Pelly first; Sass roars through The glow of a headlight could be seen coming off the Pelly River.
• Bullying, harassment prompt candidate’s departure There won’t be a Rendezvous King this year, after the Yukon’s only male candidate dropped out of the race due to an onslaught of bullying and harassment.
• Musher loses team after slumber overtakes him Yukon Quest musher Richie Beattie fell off his sled and lost his dog team Friday.
• Settlement land withdrawn from staking The Yukon Chamber of Mines is seeking a legal opinion regarding Premier Sandy Silver’s decision to withdraw a portion of Indigenous settlement land from mineral staking.

February 7, 2020

• Yukoner releases his first novel Whitehorse resident Cameron Cottrell-Tribes has released his first fantasy novel on Amazon.
• Opening This Afternoon Whitehorse resident Janet Patterson will open 100 Sleepless Nights at 5:00 this afternoon in the Edge Gallery at Arts Underground.
• Closure unrelated to highway work: minister Richard Mostyn says the closure of the Yukon Adult Resource Centre is not the result of his department forcing the Salvation Army’s hand.
• Two lots prove popular The city received 22 applications for the land lottery being held to sell two vacant single-family housing lots on Sandpiper Drive in the Arkell subdivision.
• Kwanlin Dün chief is running for re-election on March 18 Doris Bill is running for a third term as chief of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation.
• Frost disappointed by building’s continued vacancy It’s been two months since the Housing First Residence on the corner of Fifth Avenue and Wood Street officially opened, yet the building is still empty due to security issues and lack of staff.
• YEC envisions new era of renewable energy Yukon Energy has identified three initiatives to beef up the amount of renewable energy pumped onto the grid but they come with a heavy price tag.
• Moonlight bathed musher’s arrival into Dawson Veteran musher Torsten Kohnert, from Sweden, was the fifth Yukon Quest musher to arrive in Dawson City at 9:01 p.m. Thursday.
• Mushers report slow slog from Eagle to Dawson Cody Strathe and Allan Moore were the third and fourth Yukon Quest mushers to reach Dawson on Thursday afternoon, arriving near each other.
• Range Road project developer addresses area parking concerns KBC Developments has revamped its proposal for a seniors’ complex along Range Road that will address parking concerns raised by area residents.
• Swedish musher pulls in with a skid and a smile Swedish musher Nora Själin knows how to make an entrance.
• Wildfire group celebrates funding bonanza Yukon First Nations Wildfire (YFNW) was awarded more than $1 million for their Resilience Training and Healing Program at the Arctic Inspiration Awards in Ottawa on Wednesday night.
• Judge reserves decision on mine bankruptcy Justice Suzanne Duncan of the Supreme Court of Yukon reserved her decision on several issues argued last week regarding the bankrupt Wolverine Mine.

February 6, 2020

• Film Festival Continues Director Aaron Zeghers performs Tuesday evening at the Available Light Film Festival at The Old Fire Hall.
• Sass first to arrive in Dawson; Phillips follows With an “Oh, man,” Brent Sass climbed off his sled, 12 dogs still on line, after being the first Yukon Quest musher to reach Dawson City at 5:43 this morning.
• Armchair musher shares insights into race Andy Pace is a veteran of two Yukon Quest 1,000-mile races.
• Former federal candidate backs Benoit for Yukon Party leadership Linda Benoit, a candidate for the leadership of the Yukon Party, received a high-profile endorsement today.
• Zero Waste Yukon to host garage sale, repair café! Zero Waste Yukon is gearing up for its seventh annual indoor community garage sale and repair café.