Whitehorse Daily Star: News Archive

News Archive

Now Showing In the Edge Gallery of Arts Underground, Owen Williams (above) is presenting CODEX: CANON until Feb. 23.
Commemorating A Tragedy On last Friday’s anniversary of the loss of the space shuttle Columbia that killed seven astronauts on Feb. 1, 2003,
Strength In Women Elizabeth Castle, left, and Marcy Gilbert, with their arms in the air,
Biomonitoring clinic taking place in Old Crow Old Crow is holding a biomonitoring clinic this week to look at contaminant levels in people and how that relates to the consumption of traditional food.
Half-way there: mushers reach Dawson City Photo Spread
Dogs did 99 per cent of the work: frontrunner The crowds gathered down Front Street along the Yukon Quest trail into the local checkpoint on Tuesday morning.
Man’s body recovered from lake The body of an Alberta man presumed drowned in Drury Lake near Faro on Jan. 28 has been recovered.
Phillips pleasantly surprised to arrive second Yukon Quest musher Michelle Phillips was the second racer to pull into Dawson late Tuesday morning, less than half an hour behind frontrunner Brent Sass.
Grim picture for food banks across country: report In a country where Canadians visited food banks more than one million times in one month alone last year, the figures are “unacceptably high” and striking for the territories.

Clear city breastfeeding policy proposed A policy providing clear support for mothers and infants to breastfeed in city facilities could soon be in place.
Chinese New Year celebrations Photo Spread
Broken pipe floods high school A broken water pipe flooded parts of F.H. Collins Secondary school Monday. The incident closed the school for the day.
Cabbie sees sexual assault charge dismissed A Whitehorse taxi driver has seen his charge of sexual assault dismissed after the complainant did not appear, as scheduled, to testify today in Yukon Supreme Court.
Council advised to approve child care centre City staff are recommending that council move forward to the final two readings of a zoning amendment that would allow a child care centre to be located inside the Days Inn hotel on Second Avenue.
Sass leads the pack into Dawson City Four Yukon Quest mushers have reached Dawson City from Pelly Crossing. Brent Sass was the first to reach the checkpoint, getting in at 11:24 a.m. today.
Hospital staffers plan strike vote More than 300 hospital staffers in Whitehorse, Watson Lake and Dawson City could be voting to strike later this week.

Gatt was first musher into Braeburn Yukon Quest mushers left Shipyards Park in Whitehorse at 11 a.m. Saturday.
Yukon Quest Kicks Off From Whitehorse Photo Spread
Numbing cold didn’t paralyze enthusiasm It has begun.
Morning Mishap Traffic was stalled in both directions
Mushers assess first leg of their odyssey It was a different feel around the Carmacks checkpoint on Sunday.
Correction Friday’s edition reported
Most mushers have glided into Pelly All but three Yukon Quest mushers have reached Pelly Crossing.
Housing among vital needs: aging forum As the territory’s population grows and begins to show signs of aging, one of the entities looking at how to best meet their needs is the Yukon Housing Corp. (YHC).
Offender can become productive citizen: judge A Whitehorse man has been sentenced to a nine-month conditional term and two years’ probation for a drug offence and three weapons-related charges.

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