Whitehorse Daily Star

July 11, 2017

• Mayor Sports New Head Gear Tennis Yukon’s Stacy Lewis
• Limbering Up Team Japan stretches
• Trolley has been sidelined until 2018 There will be no riding the rails in downtown Whitehorse this summer.
• Collision Attended To Two vehicles,
• Operations building financing takes another step TD-Canada Trust is closer to providing the city with the $18.8-million loan to build the city’s proposed operations building.
• Animal shelter deluged with unwanted items The Humane Society Yukon has found itself issuing a public reminder that its animal shelter is not “a free store, recycling depot or garbage dump.”
• Yukoners at Canadian Francophone Games Team Yukon,
• Man’s disappearance had spurred intense search The death of a man whose body was found near Fort Selkirk last Wednesday is being investigated as a homicide.

July 10, 2017

• Emergency repairs ensure ice at Canada Games Centre Emergency repairs have restored ice-making capabilities at the Canada Games Centre,
• Thousands took in Adäka Cultural Festival A celebration of First Nations arts and culture saw thousands make their way to the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre over a one-week period for the annual Adäka Cultural Festival.
• Power In The Water Russia’s SHERP ATV was demonstrated Sunday at the M’Clintock River by Marsh Lake.
• Council to make AWG funding decision Council is being asked to move $50,000 out of the trust fund for the 2020 Arctic Winter Games so staff can start spending it.
• Popular Crooner Performs Corb Lund sang at Friday evening’s opening ceremony
• Court decision on exploration project leaves Northern Cross unhappy Northern Cross says it’s disappointed with the Federal Court’s recent ruling regarding its multi-well exploration proposal in Eagle Plains.
• Reality TV star sues fellow miner A placer mining reality TV star is suing a fellow miner over the use of a historic dredge and pontoons.
• Childcare recruitment in crisis mode: advocate Yukon childcare is in the midst of a recruitment and retention crisis,
• Eight wildfires burning near popular Yukon rivers Yukon Wildland Fire Management is encouraging paddlers to avoid the Snake, Wind and Bonnet Plume rivers, as eight large wildfires are burning in the northern Yukon area.
• Judge rules against residents’ association The Hot Springs Road Development Area Residents Association has lost its suit against the Yukon government.

July 7, 2017

• Yukon partners with Alberta to evaluate college degree plans The Yukon and Alberta governments are ensuring Yukon College meets established institutional standards.
• A Posthumous Honour Bryan Clayson was posthumously given the Commissioner’s Award for Public Service
• New detachment commander in Old Crow settles into duties Cpl. Yvon Largess has become the RCMP’s detachment commander for Old Crow, the Yukon’s most northern and only fly-in detachment.
• Honouring A Treasured Life Members of the Youth Today Society’s Celebrating Media Arts Program
• Bank recommended for $18.8-M loan to city Bank recommended for $18.8-M loan to city
• A Master At Work Lyonel Grant is a New Zealand Mā ori master carver and sculptor.
• Airtankers attack two-hectare fire seven kilometres from Mayo Airtankers and firefighters swiftly responded to a two-hectare fire burning in the Mayo district Wednesday,
• High cost estimates delay bridge work Repairs to the suspension bridge in Ross River,
• Traditional Rafting Led by drummers from many nations,
• Cleanup sees 919 tonnes of soil excavated so far Work to clean up the June 22 fuel spill at the intersection of the North Klondike and Alaska highways is continuing.
• Duo’s thumbing odyssey to begin in Whitehorse A week after the nation celebrated its 150th birthday,
• Fireweed Lions Club asks to hang banners Accommodating the request from the Fireweed Lions Club to put up anniversary banners along Robert Service Way shouldn’t be a problem,
• Garbage-munching bear put down A brownish-coloured black bear that was getting into garbage
• Youth tackle school’s painful history When the last vestiges of the Chooutla School are cleared away, no one will mourn its loss.
• Baseball bat-wielding robber gets house arrest A young Yukon man responsible for robbing a gas station with a baseball bat has been sentenced to house arrest due to his cognitive deficits.