Whitehorse Daily Star

February 6, 2013

• City to get money for Motorways work City staff are now preparing to rerelease the lots on the site of the former site of the Motorways trucking yard.
• Mishap damages bus, fence, cement fixtures City officials are reminding staff who drive city vehicles to focus on safety and drive to the conditions.
• Quest offices faulted for tumbling purses The defending Quest champion didnʼt mince his words.
• Territory, state to study electrical grid tie-in The Yukon and Alaska will fund a joint study into the possibility of tying the Yukon's electrical grid and telecommunications to Skagway, and possibly beyond, says Premier Darrell Pasloski.
• First Nations have made major strides: scholar The fifth annual First Nation Governance and Capacity Development Conference began Tuesday at the Yukon Convention Centre with a keynote address by Ken Coates.
• Mushers reprise their rivalry from 2012 The rivalry between Hugh Neff and Allen Moore has picked up right where it left off at last yearʼs Yukon Quest photo-finish in Whitehorse.
• Charge laid following fatal crash A man has been charged with impaired driving causing death following a crash that killed a teenaged girl last summer.
• Correction Incorrect information provided to the Star by the Dragons' Den CBC production staff
• Dawson City buys historic bank building Scarcely a public meeting has gone by since the mid-1990s when someone has not raised the issue of the decaying former CIBC bank building on Front Street and what the City of Dawson was doing to resolve the issues it presents.
• Restaurateur encountering a menu of frustrations Setting up and running any new business is no easy task, and veteran businessman Art Webster knows that well.
• Ice, debris set the table for a tragedy: testimony Nearly four feet of ice and debris blocked off the chimney of a home filled with toxic gas, killing five people.

February 5, 2013

• Quest rookie performing like a seasoned pro He may be a Yukon Quest rookie, but Norwegian Markus Ingebretsen is mushing like a seasoned veteran.
• Dragons' Den looking for budding business ventures Staff from the Dragons' Den, a CBC television show, will hold open auditions 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.Wednesday in Whitehorse, looking for the next big business proposition.
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• Chastened ex-champ is having problems Lance Mackey is one frustrated musher.
• Dejected musher is first to scratch from Quest Ed Abrahamson is the first musher to scratch from this yearʼs Yukon Quest.
• Neff looking like gold nugget winner Defending Yukon Quest champion Hugh Neff pulled into Dawson City at 1:10 p.m. today to collect the four gold nuggets awarded to the musher who reaches the halfway point first.
• Mushers are a quarter-way through the Quest Susan Rogan experienced her first hallucination on the Yukon Quest trail on Sunday night.
• Clinic was ready to accommodate family's appointment In the days before she was found dead, Valerie Rusk was in tears. Her family was sick and she didn't know what to.
• Hugh Neff first in Dawson Hugh Neff struck gold in Dawson Monday afternoon.

February 4, 2013

• Musher deserves his due, advocate says As mushers from around the world travel the trail of the Yukon Quest, a local Japanese man is urging recognition for a musher who took on the same paths more than 100 years ago.
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• Musher modest about first meal honours in Braeburn Allen Moore was reluctant to call it the breakfast of champions.
• Trail rerouting shortens mushers' odyssey The Yukon Quest will be 80 km (50 miles) shorter this year.
• Comin' In Yukon Quest musher Dave Dalton's dogs
• Neffʼs all-nighter gives him early lead Hugh Neff blazed such a quick path to Carmacks, he beat his sled dog handler to the checkpoint by more than an hour Sunday morning.
• Yukon Energy to negotiate supplying mine project Yukon Energy has signed a letter of intent to negotiate an agreement to supply Copper North Mining and its Carmacks Copper project, it was announced Friday.
• Update: Neff widens lead as Mackey's dogs struggle Hugh Neff continues to hold a strong lead in the early going of the Yukon Quest.
• Thousands turned out to send off 30th Quest Saturday's start of the 30th Yukon Quest certainly lived up to the hype.
• ‘Unrepentant' sex offender has a high opinion of himself A Pelly Crossing man who's been described as an "unrepentant, essentially untreated sexual offender” has been sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison.