Whitehorse Daily Star

May 6, 2024

• Honouring the missing and murdered and MMIWG2S+ Red Dress Day,
• School bus registration for the 2024-25 school year is open Whitehorse families can now register their students for school bus service for the 2024-25 school year
• Wall Impedes Minor Slide A small slide occurred at midday Saturday on the escarpment along Robert Service Way.
• Parks Canada acts to protect Kluane sheep Parks Canada and the Kluane National Park Management Board are asking visitors to help protect the declining population of Dall’s sheep at Sheep Mountain, also known as Thechàl Dhâl’.
• Party sets sights on 2025 election On what the Yukon Party notes was Star Wars Day – Saturday – about party members from across the territory gathered in Whitehorse for its 2024 annual general meeting.
• Dispute over travel expenses brews There’s a dispute brewing between the Liberals and the Yukon Party over travel expenses.
• Mayor hails ‘ this very significant project’ The city’s clay cliffs instability problems have attracted a landslide of federal funding assistance.

May 3, 2024

• Community space time extended The community space in the Jim Smith Building in Whitehorse will remain open until May 17, it was announced Wednesday. That’s several weeks longer than originally planned.
• How Did Rendezvous Get Started, Anyways From 100th Anniversary Edition 1950-1979
• Dawson City plans to become accessible Some 40 representatives of Dawson’s business and tourism community gathered at Diamond Tooth Gerties on the evening of April 17 for the 2024 Klondike Tourism Round-up.
• Hours extended at Little Gold Creek Port of Entry After elevating Yukon voices, Yukon MP Hanley’s advocacy “has led to the extension of border opening days, re-instating pre-COVID dates” at the Top of the World Highway crossing, his office said April 25.
• Population could top 67,200 by 2045: YG Based on research called the Preferred Projection scenario,
• Tumble Time Engineers Yukon held the annual Bridge Building competition last Saturday at the Canada Games Centre.
• Cautions renewed as bears emerge from sleep As the last snow cover surrenders to spring, Yukoners are being urged to brush up on their bear awareness.
• The Joys Of Music .
• NDP leader has some frustrations with the Liberals The sitting had “some highs and quite a few lows,” NDP Leader Kate White told reporters Thursday.
• Dixon calls for a change in government Reporters met with official Opposition Leader Currie Dixon following question period Thursday to talk about the spring sitting.
• Pillai sees major advancements, a tired Yukon Party The territory’s MLAs have just completed “a very substantial sitting” in the legislature, in Premier Ranj Pillai’s estimation.
• Town happily announced flood warning downgrade After a succession of days with potential flood warnings ranging from caution to alert to warning, Tuesday dawned with good news from the City of Dawson.
• Put land releases over photo ops: Laking The federal government is a day late and a dollar short when it comes to making some of its Whitehorse properties available for housing.
• Funding slashes may put a crimp on events marking Canada Day, Legion president says Funding slashes may put a crimp on events marking Canada Day, Legion president says

May 2, 2024

• New Look For Elder The bust of Edith Josie,
• Members selected for citizens’ assembly on electoral reform Thirty-eight Yukoners representing the territory’s 19 electoral districts have been selected for the Yukon Citizen’s Assembly on Electoral Reform.
• Schools’ water supplies being tested Two students’ discovery of elevated lead levels in some water sources at Del Van Gorder School in Faro earlier this year has prompted action.
• MLAs approve motion to review Connective facilities A motion to review Connective Support Society programs and facilities in Whitehorse unanimously passed in the legislature Wednesday.
• 2024-25 Disaster Financial Assistance program launched The Yukon government has unveiled the 2024-25 Disaster Financial Assistance program aimed at helping Yukoners recover financially from a natural disaster.