Whitehorse Daily Star

December 16, 2014

• Conference Time These youngsters were seen on the Carcross/Tagish Road earlier this month,
• Yukoner learned much about climate change The Yukon’s youth ambassador on climate change says the international conference in Peru was an intriguing learning experience.
• Telltale Behaviour Someone is doing wrong by feeding this red fox,
• Correction A story in Monday’s edition
• Carolling In The Supermarket Singers from the Whitehorse Community Choir perform Christmas carols Sunday afternoon at Wykes’ Your Independent Grocer.
• Government takes more heat over new school Liberal Leader Sandy Silver criticized the government Monday for excluding a tech and trades wing from serious consideration as part of the new F.H. Collins Secondary School building design.
• Affordable housing money used for another purpose The Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition and the opposition parties have lined up to denounce the government’s move to inject $1.4 million of Northern Housing Trust money — originally earmarked for affordable housing — into green energy incentives for homeowners.
• Woman fined for illegal salmon sale; told to make mitts and hats A Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation woman has been fined and banned from fishing in the Yukon River for 18 months after illegally selling salmon to non-First Nation members.
• ‘I realize what I’ve done is wrong’: offender A 23-year-old man who stole money from the Casa Loma Motel to fuel his cocaine addiction has been sentenced to one year in jail and three years on probation.

December 15, 2014

• Seasonal Crowd-Pleaser Hundreds of people flocked to the Yukon Arts Centre Friday and Saturday
• Fit For A Feline Jo Stewart, left, presents a cat blanket,
• Release of fracking committee report likely moved to January The Yukon government is looking to extend the deadline for the fracking committee’s final report from this Thursday to Jan. 19, with support from Opposition members.
• Hundreds turn out for Lights of Life ceremony A standing-room-only crowd filled the lobby of the Elijah Smith Building at noon Friday to remember loved ones who have passed.
• Contractors to receive more information faster The Yukon government has announced it will encourage contractors to begin planning capital projects before it has set aside a specific cash amount for new buildings or public works.
• Boil water order lifted in Dawson Dawson is no longer under a boil water order, after it was lifted early Friday afternoon.
• Nehass concerned about assembling unbiased jury Michael Nehass wants to plead not guilty, though he’s desperate to get out of jail.

December 12, 2014

• Liberal praises sidelined ex-Green candidate Larry Bagnell, the federal Liberal nominee and former Yukon MP, had fond words for Coun. John Streicker, who last week revealed to the Star that he will not run in the 2015 federal election.
• Winter Settles In As Teslin Lake continues to freeze over,
• Survey on recycling program closes today Today is the last day to complete the city’s survey on its proposed curbside recycling program.
• Anti-racism committee sets out its goals for 2015 The city’s committee that aims to eliminate racism and discrimination could have a very busy 2015.
• Tourism group hails watershed decision The Tourism Industry Association of the Yukon (TIA Yukon)
• CHAOS program proving to be anything but Enrolment in the Community, Heritage, Adventure, Outdoors and Skills (CHAOS) experiential learning program this year is the strongest ever for both the fall 2014 Grade 10 and winter 2015 Grade 9 classes.
• Landfill contracts extended until Jan. 31 The city has extended two contracts at the landfill, but only by an extra month.
• Top Morning Attraction Hundreds of people lined up before dawn
• Students’ Christmas play took on global complexion It was a display of a multiculturalism, to say the least.
• Department official explains Ketza mine matter The territory’s director of mine monitoring says the government’s handling of the Ketza River mine affair has been a positive reflection of staff at Energy, Mines and Resources, not negative.
• Woman charged in parking lot fight A 22-year-old woman has been charged with assault following a fight in the Real Canadian Superstore parking lot Wednesday evening.
• Festival of Trees raised more than $500,000 The 2014 Northwestel Festival of Trees raised $530,000 for the Yukon Hospital Foundation in support of quality health care in the territory.
• Collision Investigated Firefighters and an RCMP officer examine one of two vehicles involved in a collision
• Age, technology propel turbine into history After 21 years of operation, Yukon Energy is retiring the Bonus wind turbine atop Haeckel Hill.
• Evicted mom’s predicament unfair, MLA says Cindy Carey has been booted from her mobile home park.
• It’s a whole new meaning for ‘new kid on the block’ Huxley Briggs was just tall enough to see over the store counter, but that didn’t throw the five-year-old off his pitch to sell his Yukon-wood building blocks.
• Students sent home after heating fuel spills at school Selkirk Elementary School students have found themselves with an unexpected day off after the school was evacuated early this morning due to a fuel spill.
• Lack of housing exacerbates woman’s plight Kerry Nolan knows all too well how quickly life and circumstances can change and what that means for basic things like having a place to live.
• ‘Two lives have been destroyed by this’ Marlee Firth wears one half of a pink friendship bracelet.