Whitehorse Daily Star

August 23, 2013

• Transition home's fence can be built The city is permitting an exception to the rule of where and how high a downtown fence can be built.
• Oil, gas lease invitation produces no interest, but future calls planned No bids were received by the Aug. 2 deadline for the rights to oil and gas leases in two new areas east of the Dempster Highway in north Yukon.
• Making A Friend Yukon College staff were volunteering to help out in a variety of ways around the city Wednesday morning.
• New hospital will likely receive tin siding Barring the sudden, last-minute discovery of some non-flammable siding material suitable for a Category B2 building,
• Young singer's engagements growing in scope In the last eight months, Sarah Ott has gone from singing at her first public concert — a high school Christmas concert — to preparing to sing at major events in honour of Canada's Walk of Fame.
• Beware of scam attempts, senior warns others A Whitehorse senior citizen is warning others after he believes he was the target of a possible phone scam last week.
• Pre-Paint Preparation Yukon College staff
• Range Road construction raises concern Barricades have been set up and pylons placed closer together around the construction zone on Range Road after a local driver expressed safety concerns.
• Vessel formally becomes underwater historic site The A.J. Goddard shipwreck has become the first designated Yukon Historic Site to be located underwater.
• Exotic Cab-Catching Dawson City's new cab company showed how desperate some folks can be to secure a ride.
• Three decades' progress impresses AFY's first president After more than 30 years in the territory, the Association franco-yukonnaise (AFY) is a fixture for French-speaking people in the Yukon.
• Development site to be scoured for graves As the city prepares to hand five Steele Street lots back to the Yukon government, the territory is getting closer to investigating what is on the site.
• Power outage cause probed With the electricity out, a number of Yukoners may have had to find alternative dinner plans early Thursday evening.
• Banning energy drinks to minors finds favour here The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) called for a ban on sales of energy drinks to underage Canadians at its annual general assembly, which wrapped up Wednesday in Calgary.

August 22, 2013

• Discovery Day lived up to its name in Dawson Discovery Day, Aug. 16, 1896, has different meanings for different people, depending on how it may have affected them.
• College employees tackle community assignments Cooking soup at the Victoria Faulkner Women's Centre, cleaning up after Operation Nanook at the Takhini Arena,
• Local garbage can pilot project yields questionnaire results The first phase of the garbage can pilot project is complete.
• Arts centre doffs wraps on coming season The Yukon Arts Centre unveiled an exciting 2013/2014 arts and theatre season Wednesday afternoon.
• Former Yukoner blazes new trails within the RCMP A former Yukoner has taken over the top spot at the Saskatchewan RCMP.
• Season has turned in a dismal chinook run The run of chinook salmon up the Yukon River is pretty much done, says Alaskan biologist Eric Newland.

August 21, 2013

• Aiming For Accuracy Cadets at the Whitehorse Cadet Summer Training Centre take part in biathalon training last Wednesday afternoon.
• Road will lead to agricultural lease The Yukon Agricultural Association is moving forward with plans to build a 600-metre road into its agricultural lease along the North Klondike Highway.
• Prime Minister Harper's Northern Tour Photo Page
• Correction Tuesday's front page photo caption provided by The Canadian Press
• Reopening The Textbooks Most elementary schools in the territory reopened this morning for the 2013-14 academic year.
• FBI tracking killer's movements in territory When American serial killer Israel Keyes was asked about the number of people he murdered, he laughed.
• City to purchase rescue tools for firefighters The city will spend more than $55,000 on upgrading the fire department's rescue tools.
• Ladder staff to hold appreciation evening Though this year's run of Yukon River chinook is the worst in 13 years, there's still optimism at the Whitehorse Fish Ladder.
• Conservation group unperturbed by plan The Yukon Conservation Society isn't standing in opposition to a proposed winter road along the Wind River Trail, says the society's mining co-ordinator.