Wheels begin turning on new transit routes, schedules

Whitehorse city council is considering moving forward with plans for new transit routes, which would include public engagement on the proposed schedule. The modernized routes are being putting forward after council delayed a proposed new route system in July following public outcry. The newest proposed schedule would not reduce or eliminate the current service levels. (Yukon News file)
Bus routes would grow to eight under new concept

The Yukon Supreme Court has received a petition from an engineering firm that claims it is owed more than $1 million by Minto Mine. (Jim Elliot/Yukon News)

Engineering firm petitions Yukon Supreme Court with $1 million claim against Minto Mine
Violet Gatensby (front) with Roberta Wally (behind) sit and chip away in dugout canoe featured during a screening of Voices Across the Water in Carcross Nov. 16. The film is a Yukon-led production of Fritz Mueller and Teresa Earle. (Lawrie Crawford/Yukon News)

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Santa Breakfast raising funds for mental health unit
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      Santa waves to the crowd as he walks down Main Street in 2019. The parade will return to its Main Street route on Dec. 3. (Yukon News file)

      Whitehorse Christmas Parade returning to Main Street
      The Dawson City RCMP is seeking German citizen Soydan Karasinan who may have gone missing while riding his bicycle through either Alaska or the central Yukon. (RCMP Image)

      Yukon RCMP say missing man may have been cycling to Dawson City

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      A COVID-19 rapid test shows a positive test result. A Nov. 10 memo gives a bit of additional insight on deaths due to COVID-19 in the Yukon. (Dana Hatherly/Yukon News)

      Internal memo reveals data on COVID-19 deaths in Yukon

      Nov. 10 memo notes vaccination has “dramatically reduced” risk of severe outcomes

      Yukon NDP Leader Kate White scrums with reporters in the Yukon legislature following the final question period of the fall sitting of the Yukon Legislative Assembly on Nov. 24. (Dana Hatherly/Yukon News)

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      Athletes watch a competitor perform on the freestyle moguls at Mount Sima during the 2007 Canada Winter Games. The territory’s withdraw from the bid to host the 2027 Canada Winter Games has raised questions in the legislature. (File Photo)

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      Obituaries

      Barbara Doedel

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      WYATT’S WORLD

        Archivist Lesley Buchan looks through decades-old ledgers in the Yukon Archives vault in 2016. The archive is celebrating it’s 50th year. (Joel Krahn/Yukon News file)

        History Hunter: The Yukon’s Memory Bank turns 50 this month

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        Eugene Alfred introduces Wolf and Crow, one of four pieces by First Nations artists unveiled in the Whitehorse courthouse on Nov. 28. (Gabrielle Plonka/Yukon News)

        Wolf, crow, eagle, trout: Yukon First Nations artists adorn courthouse with traditional images

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        Jeszika Mae brings Drag Story Time to the Yukon Transportation Museum, wrapped in a dress of bubble wrap representing fragile masculinity, in a show of protest against those who have called the children’s show “grooming.” (Dylan MacNeil/Yukon News)

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