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March 1, 2017
- Associations received Bravo Award for their efforts This year’s Bravo Award was presented
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World heritage nomination enters final phase Initial ideas about UNESCO World Heritage status
- Council OKs grader purchase The city will spend more than $354,000 on a new grader after council approved awarding the supply contract to the only company to bid on it.
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A Prickly Customer This young porcupine
- Yukon company to be featured during Disruptmining event Shawn Ryan and his GroundTruth Explorations of Dawson City
- City sole-sources $1-M contract for two buses The city will sole-source a contract worth more than $1 million to Nova Bus.
- Arctic entrepreneurship event scheduled for Friday, Saturday More than 50 people from Alaska, the Yukon, Northwest Territories and the lower 48 states will convene in Whitehorse
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Spectacular Show Planned The Dakhká Khwáan Dancers and DJ DASH
- Latest power failure saw lights out in several areas The lights were out yet again for some Yukoners late Tuesday afternoon.
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City approves funding for July 1 celebration July 1 will be a holiday to remember as the nation celebrates its 150th birthday.
- Delegates urged to help food bank The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, Whitehorse United Church and local various churches/temples will hold an interfaith conference Thursday entitled “Absolute Justice, Kindness and Kinship”.
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Airport apron woes spur multimillion-dollar suit The Yukon government is suing a Whitehorse construction company
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First Nation, family seek inquest into 2013 death The Little Salmon-Carmacks First Nation and the family of Cynthia Blackjack are requesting the chief coroner of Yukon to hold an inquest into her death.
- BYTE mentoring girls on coping with violence A new report has found that Yukon girls face some of the highest rates of family violence.
February 28, 2017
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More Rendezvous revelry .
- Premier’s speech to faithful called ‘inspiring’ Sandy Silver made his first address to the annual general meeting of the Yukon Liberal Party as premier last Saturday.
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Golden Age Society gets an $18,000 infusion The Golden Age Society will receive $18,000 in federal money for its Enhancing the Lives of Seniors project.
- Ex-candidate due back in court on March 22 The case of Tamara Goeppel,
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Venue for new Nehass trial remains unclear The Crown plans to retry Michael Nehass.
February 27, 2017
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Rendezvous photos from 2017 .
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Dawson’s ice bridge is suddenly half-gone The West Dawson access portion of this year’s volunteer-created ice bridge across the Yukon River washed out at around 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
- Crown is imposing unfair conditions, accused argues An accused murderer argues he is being treated unfairly when it comes to disclosure.
- Rendezvous proved to be ‘phenomenal year,’ executive director says The warm weather drew huge crowds to Shipyards Park over the weekend as Yukoners took in the annual Sourdough Rendezvous festival.
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Centre evacuated following threat The Canada Games Centre (CGC) was shut down Friday afternoon following a bomb threat.