Whitehorse Daily Star: News Archive

News Archive

It’s an all-female grad class for haul truck program Seven Kaska Dena women, along with instructors, families and friends, celebrated the completion of a haul truck operator program Oct. 21 in Ross River.
First Nations to participate in hot meals program First Nations children and youth will have access to a new hot meal program in their schools, the Council of Yukon First Nations (CYFN) announced Wednesday.
Plan doesn’t consider mining emissions: NDP leader In the week after the Yukon government released its plan to slash greenhouse gases in the next decade,
Tree cut power to 2,000 customers A power outage that affected approximately 2,000 customers Wednesday evening was caused by a tree falling on a power line,

Yukon Party has leadership election date The official Opposition Yukon Party will elect a new leader on May 23, 2020, the party announced today.
Refugee family to get Games Centre, bus passes City council has approved a grant of $3,300 to provide transit and Canada Games Centre passes to an Iraqi refugee family of four who arrived in Whitehorse earlier this month.
Female entrepreneurs have a new networking hub A networking hub for female entrepreneurs launched at the NorthLight Innovation Centre on Tuesday morning.
YG employee charged with fraud, theft Whitehorse RCMP have laid eight counts of criminal charges against a territorial Department of Finance employee.
CBC short-circuits decision to revamp newscasts The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (CBC) has reversed a decision announced Monday morning to streamline local news across the three territories into one northern newscast.
Miner welcomes prospector group’s top honour The Yukon Prospector’s Association named Carl “Sarge” Schulze the 2019 Prospector of the Year at the Yukon Geoscience Award Banquet on Monday.
Second seniors’ building proposed for Range Road The developer moving forward with a five-storey supportive living apartment building at 468 Range Rd. is now proposing a major second phase.

Panel discussing power system’s future The Renewable Electricity Panel is touring the territory this week with the aim of discussing the electricity system’s future and renewable options.
High land prices raised in legislature John Streicker, the minister of Community Services, was quizzed on the high price of Yukon land on Monday in the legislature.
Lack of WCB rebates disappoints chamber The Yukon Chamber of Commerce says it’s disappointed with the decision of the Yukon Workers’ Compensation Health and Safety Board (YWCHSB) to not release a further rebate to Yukon employers.
Late mining geologist is recipient of Kate Carmack award Julia Lane, a Vancouver mining geologist who died in a Yukon plane crash in August, is the recipient of the 2019 Kate Carmack Women in Mining award.

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