Whitehorse Daily Star

April 2, 2019

• Chef Cat McInroy is sharing a new culinary experience with Whitehorse .
• YG eyes fall exit date for cannabis store The Yukon government is hopeful it will be able to partially exit the cannabis selling game by shutting down its Marwell store around the fall, once it sees private retailers up and running.
• YG to pay extra $200k for Ross River School work For stabilization work on the Ross River school this year,
• City continues to prepare for cannabis retailers City administration is bringing forward more amendments to the zoning bylaw that will establish the ground rules for locating retail outlets for cannabis.
• Concert Season Winds Down Dusica Miladinovic performs last Sunday

April 1, 2019

• Hotdog vendor jumped the gun, city determines The city has shut down the hotdog stand at Third Avenue and Main Street because vendors on city property in the downtown core are not allowed to begin their season until April 15.
• Ex-Whitehorse cabbie sentenced for offences A Yukon Supreme Court justice has fined a Surrey, B.C. man $1,500 and imposed six months’ probation for two driving offences in Whitehorse.
• Welcome Arrivals Swans are seen Saturday near the Tagish Bridge.
• Health review to help inform next year’s budget: YG The Yukon government is hoping to have suggestions from its health care review,
• Housing programs see funding reduced The average price of a single-detached home in the city officially cracked the half-million-dollar mark last year.
• Water World In The Klondike No, 4.4 metres is not how deep the puddle was at the corner of Church and Fifth in Dawson City last week,
• Judge convicts man of uttering threats A Yukon judge has convicted a man of uttering threats and breaching his probation.
• City rebudgets capital expenses The city is closer to moving $34.4 million it had planned to spend last year into the 2019 budget instead.
• Fees and charges changes progress The city is closer to making some changes to fees after council passed the first two readings of a bylaw to amend the fees and charges bylaw.
• Yukon Party, New Democrats demolish wall and join forces In order to assist the government’s ongoing search for efficiencies, the Yukon Party and the Yukon NDP are announcing a unique whole-of-opposition collaborative approach.
• Chief dismissed amid sexual harassment allegation The Carcross-Tagish First Nation (CTFN) has removed chief Andy Carvill from office.

March 29, 2019

• Dawson Regional Land Use Planning Commission formed The Yukon government and Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in have created the new six-member Dawson Regional Land Use Planning Commission.
• Percy DeWolfe banquet served up prizes galore Jason Biasetti captured his third straight victory in the Percy DeWolfe Memorial Mail Race last Friday in a time of 13 hours and 50 minutes.
• Chamber led delegation to Alberta jobs fair The Yukon Chamber of Commerce recently implemented a pilot project to help attract workers to the Yukon.
• Big drop in funding for Dempster Highway raises some eyebrows A drop of more than $3 million in projected capital spending for work on the Dempster Highway in the Yukon government’s budget for the upcoming fiscal year has left opposition parties scratching their heads.
• Waco And Windlass The Yukon Transportation Museum had an event called ‘Waco and Windlass’ on Tuesday afternoon.
• Ex-equipment operator continues legal quest The Court of Appeal of Yukon has deemed a former territorial government heavy equipment operator a vexatious litigant in that level of court.
• Whitehorse eyed for swim group program It was about eight years ago, in 2011, that Madelyn Flood began volunteering for Swimming With A Mission Canada at a pool in Winnipeg.
• Whistle Bend school coming for 2024 The growing Whistle Bend neighbourhood could see a new elementary school by 2024 as the Yukon government hopes to have shovels in the ground in 2021.
• Reading Continuing Dennis Allen, left, and Wade Kaye are seen at a rehearsal for the Ndoo Tr’eedyaa Gogwaandak (Forward Together): Vuntut Gwitchin Stories Thursday afternoon.
• Court hears arguments about First Nations consultation The Ross River Dena Council has taken the Yukon government to court over the duty to consult First Nations regarding hunting licences and tags.
• Necropsy confirms cause of dog’s death On Feb. 11, approximately three miles outside of the Central, Alaska checkpoint, veteran Yukon Quest musher Misha Wiljes’ dog Joker died.
• Beware of purple heroin, physician warns Fentanyl or carfentanil may be present on Yukon streets in the form of purple heroin.
• Nine-person unit will continue, RCMP predict The Yukon RCMP are expecting to carry forward into the 2019-20 fiscal year by continuing to have two positions in its federal investigations unit vacant, in a pattern similar to last year, the force said this morning.
• Trucker loses appeal of his convictions A Yukon Supreme Court justice has dismissed an appeal of a Whitehorse truck driver convicted of three territorial offences related to driving a commercial vehicle.
• Painstaking helicopter restoration completed Nearly seven decades after it crashed south of Old Crow,
• Appeal of dangerous offender status gets more time The Court of Appeal of Yukon has granted a time extension to a man intending to appeal his dangerous offender status.
• New Democrats give Lemphers the green light More than 100 New Democrats gathered Thursday evening to choose Justin Lemphers to carry the party into this fall’s federal election.