Staffing shortages, COVID-19 concern YTA president ahead of back to school

Ted Hupé, president of the Yukon Teachers’ Association, said COVID-19 and teacher shortages are areas of concern ahead of 2021-22 school year. (Submitted/Yukon Teachers’ Association)
Everyone is hoping for the best and preparing for the worst, said YTA president Ted Hupé

Queer Yukon hosted a Pride Stride on April 30. The society is planning to provide more queer youth programming with feedback from the soon-to-be established young adult council. (John Tonin/Yukon News file)

Queer Yukon launching Young Adult Council
The Ross River school is seen in 2008. A rapid testing clinic took place at the school on Aug. 17 and 18. (Jeremy Warren/Yukon News file)

Ross River reporting 17 COVID-19 cases
Mathilde Roldan, centre, Aisha Roldan, left and Sierra Van Der meer were the podium finishers of the second-annual ShredHERS Enduro race on Aug. 14. (Michelle Friesen/Submitted)

The second annual ShredHERS Enduro race brings out 23 mountain bikers
An aerial view of Sree Vyah showing the mono-crystalline panels positioned in an east-west orientation to maximize solar generation during the long daylight hours of the Arctic summer. (Photo by Caleb Charlie)

Diesel generators go quiet in Old Crow as the Sree Vyah solar project replaces their need

Cases of COVID-19 have more than doubled in the Northwest Territories, going from 34 cases Monday to 74 cases Tuesday night. Specimens to be tested for COVID-19 are seen at LifeLabs after being logged upon receipt at the company’s lab, in Surrey, B.C., on March 26, 2020. (Darryl Dyck/Canadian Press)

COVID-19 cases more than double in the N.W.T. in one day
A helicopter carrying a water bucket flies past the Lytton Creek wildfire burning in the mountains near Lytton, B.C., on Aug. 15. (Darryl Dyck/Canadian Press)

Total active wildfires climb in B.C., but crews exploit cooler weather in fire fight
Barbara Dunlop will be running as the Conservative Party candidate in the upcoming federal election. (Haley Ritchie/Yukon News)

Barbara Dunlop named new Conservative Party candidate for Yukon
The Flatwater North team, MacKenna MacAuley, James McCann, Bruce Porter, Kaleb Parry, Rogan Parry, Joel Girouard, Julianne Girouard, and Gavin Jaeger-Freebron, left-to-right, that competed at the Prairie Divisionals in Regina Aug. 6-8. (Photo submitted by Flatwater North)

Flatwater North paddlers make Nationals based on Prairie Divisional results

Election 2021
Pauline Frost and her lawyer outside the Whitehorse courthouse after losing a lots draw for the Vuntut Gwitchin riding on April 19. (Haley Ritchie/Yukon News)

Yukon judge reserves decision in Vuntut Gwitchin election petition

Chief Justice Suzanne Duncan says her decision will be released late next month or early August

Former Liberal MLA Pauline Frost speaks to reporters outside the courthouse on April 19. One of the voters accused of casting an invalid vote has been granted intervenor status in the lawsuit Frost filed last month. (Haley Ritchie/Yukon News)

Voters named in Pauline Frost election lawsuit ask to join court proceedings

The judge granted Christopher Schafer intervenor status

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Acting Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Catherine Elliott announced nine new cases, two of which are the Delta variant, on Aug. 18. (Haley Ritchie/Yukon News)

Delta variant confirmed in the Yukon

Nine new cases found on Aug. 18

Forty Yukon firefighters board a C-131 military aircraft bound for Kamloops on Aug. 16. (Courtesy/Yukon Protective Services)

Forty Yukon firefighters deploy to Okanagan wildfires

The 40-person crew will fight fires near Princeton and West Kelowna

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