News Archive
March 7, 2024
- Klondike Cruisers Association pursuing motorsport park The Klondike Cruisers Association is beginning a high-level scoping study aimed at exploring the potential development of a motorsport park in the Yukon.
- Getting Into The Music Muster Point has been presenting shows at Baked Café lately on Thursday evenings,
- Premier recognizes late elder Premier Ranj Pillai is reflecting on his “deep sadness” following the passing of Frances Gus’Duteen Woolsey (nee Clethro) on Feb. 28 at the age of 92.
- Hillcrest reconstruction to start this summer Work is planned to start this summer on a multi-year effort to replace Hillcrest’s aging water and sewer mains.
- Pillai encountered warm reception at PDAC conference The territory is held in high esteem as an attractive jurisdiction for mining, Premier Ranj Pillai said Wednesday.
- Health care positions being filled, YG assures public The territorial government says it has made “significant progress” to address staffing challenges in the health care system since the release of the Health Human Resources Strategy in December 2023.
- YG budget tops $2 billion for first time The Yukon government tabled its budget for 2024-25 today,
March 6, 2024
- Music helps warm a cold winter weekend .... Photo Spread
- Premier, officials promoted mining Premier Ranj Pillai has been in Toronto in recent days attending the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada’s annual conference.
- Birds As Works Of Art Kathy Piwowar opened Feathers and Wings, Beaks and Bills last Friday in the Focus Gallery at Arts Underground.
- Legislature to reconvene tomorrow The territory’s MLAs will return to the legislature Thursday afternoon to, among other things, witness the tabling of the 2024-25 fiscal year territorial budget by Finance Minister Sandy Silver.
- Wildfire preparedness questioned With summer around the corner, some council members are wondering how Whitehorse is preparing for wildfire season.
- City to update housing incentives The city plans to update its tool kit for encouraging the development of affordable housing through proposed changes to the Housing Development Incentives Policy, the City Grant-Making Policy and the Fees and Charges Bylaw.
- City weighs fast vs. slow development There is far from unanimous support at city council for a private developer’s plans to create a 16-lot country residential subdivision next to the Lobird trailer park.
March 5, 2024
- Long Ago Yukon schedules speaker Next Saturday’s fifth Long Ago Yukon speaker for the 2023-24 series will be Christian Thomas.
- Talking Post A raven speaks out
- Gathering on housing called a useful exercise Last week’s 2024 Housing Summit in Whitehorse produced some fruitful ideas for moving forward, say the premier and the mayor.
- Premier praises Mulroney’s achievements With the passing of former prime minister of Brian Mulroney, “Canada has lost a great leader who helped make our nation what it is today,” Premier Ranj Pillai said last Friday afternoon.
- Government leaders salute Special Olympics participants Premier Ranj Pillai and Community Services Minister Richard Mostyn congratulated Special Olympics Team Yukon athletes today.
- NDP to YP: state stance on universal pharmacare The New Democrats are calling on Yukon Party Leader Currie Dixon to tell Yukoners whether his caucus supports the universal public pharmacare plan announced by the federal New Democrats and Liberals last month.
- YG launches new campsite reservation service Environment Minister Nils Clarke has announced the opening of the new campground reservation service for some of the Yukon’s most popular road-accessible front and backcountry campgrounds.