Whitehorse Daily Star

December 31, 2013

• Outages hit Internet, TV service subscribers Some Whitehorse residents experienced Internet, analog and cable TV outages last Friday.
• From The Archives: A Visual Summary of 2013 Photo Spread
• The top 10 Yukon stories of the year Choosing the Yukon's top 10 stories of the year is, to a large extent, an arbitrary task.
• The top 10 Yukon stories of the year Choosing the Yukon's top 10 stories of the year is, to a large extent, an arbitrary task.
• Family event set for Games Centre The City of Whitehorse will host its seventh annual family New Year's Eve event tonight at the Canada Games Centre, and it's billed as a "super” evening.
• Complete snow removal job will take a month Be patient – the plows are coming.
• Water treatment plant's troubles continue Problems keep adding up for the operators of Dawson City's wastewater treatment plant.

December 30, 2013

• Quest gains media team Suitcase Media will return as the "official visual content team” for the 2014 Yukon Quest.
• RCMP Veterans Helps Out Alma Boutilier, left, and Maureen Routledge, centre, receive a $500 cheque for the Macaulay Lodge from the RCMP Veterans Association earlier this month.
• New Animal Health Act to take effect A new Animal Health Act will come into effect Wednesday.
• Home For The Holidays Caroline Marcos (nee Drury) sings at the Whitehorse United Church recently during a holiday visit to her hometown.
• Levee will honour deserving Yukoners Commissioner Doug Phillips is inviting Yukoners to celebrate the accomplishments of volunteers and students at the New Year's Levee.
• New community energy plan helps Faro's future The Town of Faro and the Yukon government have released a community energy plan outlining the town's energy demands, uses and costs.
• Federal government supports summer jobs for young people Employers can now apply for Canada Summer Jobs 2014 funding, which will create thousands of job opportunities for students across the country.
• Sima snow volumes ‘pretty amazing' After more than a week of heavy snowfall, Mt. Sima is about to crest one metre of the white stuff.
• Committee accused of poor community engagement Don Roberts is concerned that the select committee regarding the risks and benefits of hydraulic fracturing will only hear one side of the story during its upcoming trip to Alberta.
• ‘He was the face of the supreme court for years and years' Yukoners are mourning Harry Maddison, a retired judge who served on the Yukon Supreme Court for 30 years, staunchly defending judicial independence and integrated First Nations approaches to justice into the legal process.

December 27, 2013

• Solstice boat parade dazzled Dawson's streets Lighted boat parades to help brighten up the winter solstice are not an unusual sight in the Northern Hemisphere.
• All The Fixin's Gordie Chambers enjoys the turkey dinner
• N.W.T. wage far higher than ours Preliminary seasonally adjusted estimates show there were 20,923 jobs in the Yukon in October, Statistics Canada reported Monday.
• Yukon Energy still eying spring plant construction Yukon Energy remains confident it can begin construction of its new generating plant in May, says the corporation's president.
• Snowfall Data Unavailable The Robert Service desk sculpture on Main Street,
• Zero waste website is up The new Zero Waste Yukon website is now available for perusing.
• Residents west of Whitehorse lost their power Approximately 30 residents west of Whitehorse were without power for about three hours Thursday evening in -20 C weather because of heavy snow, says Yukon Energy spokeswomen Janet Patterson.
• Court upholds cab driver's sexual assault conviction The Yukon's highest court has upheld a former Whitehorse cab driver's conviction of sexually assaulting one of his passengers.
• Rates will have to stay ‘affordable' for a decade The Yukon Housing Corp. has received a flood of responses to its call for affordable housing proposals, a vice-president said this week.