Whitehorse Daily Star

News Archive

March 7, 2024

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.

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