Whitehorse Daily Star

April 21, 2017

• Chief retains her post with a healthy majority Roberta Joseph has been re-elected to the position of chief of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in.
• Acclaimed screenplay has a Yukon connection Two middle-aged best friends embark on a road trip to deliver a vintage car and experience a “life-changing tune up.”
• Parties expected more from a five-month-old regime When he won the election last November, Premier Sandy Silver said his government was “ready to hit the ground running.”
• Teslin Tlingit Council to receive a new bus A $215,000 share of the federal Gas Tax Fund has been set aside to purchase a 28-seat passenger bus for the Teslin Tlingit Council.
• First World War conference talks available The North and the First World War conference talks that took place last May
• Cousins happily end six-decade separation Two cousins were reunited in Whitehorse earlier this month for the first time in more than 60 years.
• Senator vigorously denounces CBC story Yukon Senator Dan Lang is denying allegations he is being investigated for workplace harassment.
• Beware of thin ice, RCMP warn Whitehorse RCMP are encouraging the community to be careful along waterways.
• Bylaw deals with noise, graffiti, snow-clearing Whitehorse residents could be subject to a new maintenance bylaw by the end of the month.
• Improvement charge would hurt Hillcrest residents, city told A local improvement charge could force a young couple to sell their home,
• Marijuana Smoke-In People gathered
• Charlie Crew burning for greater role in firefighting You might describe Charlie Crew as the seedling of a much larger vision.
• Liberals’ Throne Speech scarce on details The Yukon Liberals laid out a broad and detail-light plan for the territory in their speech from the throne Thursday afternoon.
• Adventurer savours last chance to trudge ice road In an era where paraplegic ascents of sheer granite faces in Yosemite are successfully undertaken,
• Yukon hunters post record bison harvest A record 201 woodland bison were harvested this season,
• ‘The families are grieving and the community is grieving’ Whitehorse RCMP are investigating two deaths in the McIntyre subdivision and a suspicious death in Riverdale.

April 20, 2017

• Rotary Festival Underway Callah MacGillivray
• Opposition set to hold Liberals to account Yukon MLAs will gather this afternoon for their first spring sitting under Yukon Liberal Party rule in 15 years.
• Dance Highlighted In Festival Julian Bearisto
• Injured man taken from Haines Summit A man was rescued off the Haines Summit last weekend.
• Questions raised on operations building contract It’s unlikely the contract for construction of the city’s proposed operations building will be split into phases that would allow for smaller contracts.
• Court hears final arguments in TV star’s case Final arguments were made Wednesday afternoon in Whitehorse in the case of a mining reality TV star.
• Union calls attending sessions ‘waste of time’ The Yukon Employees’ Union (YEU) isn’t going to take it anymore, it says.

April 19, 2017

• Second sudden death probed Whitehorse RCMP are investigating a sudden death in McIntyre.
• City sole-sources licence work City council was left with little option April 10 but to sole-source licence renewals with Microsoft Canada for the city’s software.
• Clark Builders strike gold in attaining certification F.H. Collins Secondary School has officially received the designation of being the territory’s first commercial/institutional building to be LEED Gold-certified.
• Apron panels dispute sees countersuit lodged The Whitehorse company hired to replace apron panels at the Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport is countersuing the Yukon government.
• Cause of downtown bush fire unknown The Whitehorse Fire Department put out a small brush fire in the downtown area Tuesday afternoon.
• Final arguments set for reality TV star’s case Testimony concluded Tuesday afternoon in Whitehorse in the case of a mining reality TV star.
• Operations building cost could rise by $9.2 M The price tag on the city’s proposed operations building could rise by nearly $10 million.
• Mining company eyes production by mid-2018 Alexco Resource Corp. wants to have its Keno Hill Silver District back in production by the middle of next year, says the company president.
• Turbines would power several hundred dwellings A proposal to install enough wind generation on Haeckel Hill to power 525 homes