Pending financial approval, female inmates at the Whitehorse Correctional Centre could be getting new digs.
The facility would allow inmates to benefit from cooking and doing laundry, says Norma Davignon.
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by Genesee Keevil
On Thursday, Premier Dennis Fentie shuffled his entire cabinet.
It won’t make any difference, said acting Liberal Leader Don Inverarity.
“It doesn’t matter how much you shuffle the chairs, the...
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by Genesee Keevil
When asked to name prominent North American environmentalists, the first names that usually spring to mind are David Suzuki or Al Gore.
Look at recent newscasts where spokespersons from prominent environmental groups...
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by Lewis Rifkind
Premier Dennis Fentie shuffled his cabinet on Thursday.
The ministers’ new portfolios are as follows:
Dennis Fentie: Executive Council Office, Finance
Elaine Taylor: Deputy Premier, Environment,...
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We stood on the edge of the tiny hill, overlooking a broad, low-lying valley.
Below us, the flat land was filled with small spruce trees, stubby brush and a small meandering creek.
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by Michael Gates
Alicia Ann Murphy appeared in front of a packed courtroom today to face a charge of second-degree murder.
However, no plea was entered.
An extra month is needed to confirm the lawyer who will be representing...
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by Chris Oke
If you govern the Yukon, spearhead Northern development and organize the North’s first Canada Games, it’s comforting to know the effort doesn’t go unnoticed.
The prestigious “officer...
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by Tristin Hopper
When it comes to bathrooms, the Yukon’s larger than life.
Last week, the Powder Room — a Canadian program for individuals with overactive bladders — gave the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre’s...
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by Chris Oke
A body has been recovered from the Yukon River near Eagle, Alaska, State Troopers told the Dawson City RCMP Thursday afternoon.
Canadian police suspect that it may be the body of Tyson Foxcroft, a canoeist who went...
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by Tristin Hopper
Commercial and domestic Chinook salmon fisheries will probably close next week, says the Fisheries and Oceans department.
The salmon run is not strong enough to open the fisheries based on the latest numbers, but the...
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by Jeremy Warren
Though it is clearly to early in the game to predict the end of the story, I have been keenly following the political fortunes of Barack Obama over the past year or more.
This is not necessarily out of any political...
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by Rick Steele
‘The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence,” said Talleyrand.
It is not easy to predict which wonkish and impractical schemes will become conventional wisdom in 10...
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by Keith Halliday
We had another quarrel last night.
I wanted to pick up a cellular modem for my computer so I could receive high-speed internet in the technological wasteland of South Salt Spring Island.
Sharon got mad.
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by Brian Brett
This week, the Associated Press reports that Italy has begun fingerprinting tens of thousands of Roma living in semi-nomadic camps around the country.
The Roma, also known as Gypsies, live in more than 700 makeshift...
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by Al Pope
