Whitehorse Daily Star

January 15, 2020

• Long Ago Yukon to host paleontologist Dr. Lisa Buckley, a vertebrate paleontologist and ichnologist, will be the year’s first Long Ago Yukon speaker at 1 p.m. Saturday.
• Yukoner inducted into mining hall As previously announced, Whitehorse resident Jerry Asp was inducted into the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame last Thursday evening in Toronto.
• Groups receive funding to help discourage violence Four Yukon-based organizations will receive $50,000 each over the next two years to help prevent violence against Indigenous women and girls in the Yukon.
• Traffic stop leads to charges A traffic stop conducted by the Whitehorse RCMP has resulted in criminal charges against a driver.
• Two cold, stranded trappers rescued Two trappers have been rescued in eastern Yukon after their snowmobile broke down, stranding them for several days in bitterly cold weather.
• Yukoners very exposed to radon, expert warns Aaron Goodarzi, research lead of Evict Radon, will conduct a talk on the dangers of radon gas this evening at the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre.
• Frigid air mass parked over North isn’t going anywhere Environment Canada meteorologist Terri Lang says nobody should be putting away their long johns just yet.

January 14, 2020

• Seniors’ complex parking plans trigger concerns Takhini subdivision residents loaded up city council chambers for a public hearing Monday night to express a united voice of opposition.
• New minister getting acquainted with Yukoners Dan Vandal, Canada’s minister of Northern Affairs, spent a day in Whitehorse this week as part of his grassroots approach to becoming acquainted with the constituency.
• Whitehorse man charged with aggravated assault A 50-year-old man has been charged with aggravated assault following an incident last Thursday morning that injured four people.
• Leadership race gains another candidate Linda Benoit, a long-time Yukon Party loyalist, has become the third person seeking the opposition party’s leadership.

January 13, 2020

• Camping reservations open Camping reservations for the Chilkoot Trail and Tombstone Territorial Park opened for the 2020 summer season last week.
• Power Demand Soars Exhaust rises Sunday from Yukon Energy’s LNG plant, left, and the diesel plant (right).
• Pivot Festival to take the spotlight Tuesday Nakai Theatre’s annual Pivot Festival will showcase intimate literary and theatrical performances this month.
• Yukoners show support for First Nation’s quest About 20 people gathered Friday in -35 C temperatures in Whitehorse in tandem with the Wet’suwet’en demonstrations against the development of pipelines on Indigenous land.
• Decision pending on kennel’s former owner The owner of the former Tagish kennel was in territorial court last Monday to defend herself against two charges related to the Environment Act.
• Hunt decision based on partial data, chief says Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Chief Roberta Joseph says the decision to open up a hunt on the Fortymile caribou herd was premature.