Whitehorse Daily Star

January 3, 2019

• Teslin detachment commander eager to embrace local culture RCMP Cpl. Jeffrey Myke is the new commander for the Teslin detachment.
• Ross River water treatment plant spurs litigation The architect and firm responsible for designing the Ross River water treatment plant is taking the Yukon government and a Newfoundland and Labrador architectural firm to court over how the project was handled.
• Whistle Bend Place is about one-third full The move of residents into Whistle Bend Place will resume next week, says the director of communications for the Department of Health and Social Services.
• Projects receive $700,000-plus in grants Projects receive $700,000-plus in grants
• Gateway still expected to wrap up 2025 In 2018, the Yukon government was criticized for what the opposition called a delay in getting shovels into the ground for the Gateway Resource project.

January 2, 2019

• Ending The Year On A Sour Note This two-vehicle collision
• Bringing in the year Photo Spread
• Court upholds vexatious litigant finding The Yukon Court of Appeal has upheld a Supreme Court decision which declared a former Department of Highways and Public Works employee a vexatious litigant.
• Suspect forces his way into woman’s apartment Whitehorse RCMP are looking for a man who forced his way into an apartment Monday morning and tried to assault a woman.
• Council’s maiden meeting of ’19 will be the first in four weeks As mayor and council get set to head back into council chambers early in the new year,
• Kettle campaign fails to reach its goal The Salvation Army was off by more than $8,000 from its goal of raising $80,000 through its annual kettle campaign over the holidays.

December 31, 2018

• Big party set for this evening The weather has warmed just in time for this evening’s New Year’s Eve Countdown staged by the City of Whitehorse.
• Local family grateful to have Easter House as Vancouver resource Easter Seals House is a home-away-from-home for more than 175 Yukon families travelling to Vancouver for medical treatment throughout the year.
• The top 10 Yukon stories of 2018 Choosing the Yukon’s top 10 stories of the year is, to a large extent, an arbitrary task.
• Decision will improve workers’ safety: YEU Workers at Whitehorse’s youth group homes will no longer be forced to work alone – a practice the Yukon Employees’ Union (YEU) has long been opposed to for safety reasons.