Spring shred: Snowmobiles gather on Mount Sima for 2021 Uphill Challenge

A competitor takes a jump in front of a crowd at the Mount Sima Up Hill Challenge in Whitehorse on April 17. (Haley Ritchie/Yukon News)
Riders had a sunny and warm day on the hill, but still plenty of snowpack on the uphill course.

This City of Whitehorse map shows the laneway that would be closed off for the building consolidation project. (City of Whitehorse)

Lane closure proposed to make way for new services building, city hall
Crystal Schick/Yukon News Yukon MP Larry Bagnell speaks at an announcement in Whitehorse on July 8, 2019.

Federal budget includes changes to Northern Residents Deduction, minimum wage, green energy funds
Doug Bell photographed in Whitehorse in 2008, for an article about his role as Yukon Commissioner in the early 1980’s. (Ian Stewart/Yukon News file)

Yukon remembers former commissioner Doug Bell
Crystal Schick/Yukon News Whitehorse International Airport in Whitehorse on May 6, 2020.

NAV CANADA suspends review for Whitehorse airport traffic control

A bulldozer levels piles of garbage at the Whitehorse landfill in January 2012. (Ian Stewart/Yukon News file)

Rural dump closures and tipping fees raise concern from small communities
Whitehorse City Hall (Yukon News file)

City news, briefly
Joel Krahn/joelkran.com Hikers traverse the Chilkoot Trail in September 2015. Alaska side.

The Canadian side of the Chilkoot Trail will open for summer
Letters to the editor.

Today’s mailbox: Hands of Hope, the quilt of poppies

Election 2021
NDP candidate Annie Blake, left, and Liberal incumbent Pauline Frost. (Submitted photos)

Official recount confirms tie vote in Vuntut Gwitchin riding

Both candidates Pauline Frost and Annie Blake are still standing with 78 votes each

Yvonne Clarke is the newly elected Yukon Party MLA for Porter Creek Centre. (Submitted/Yukon Party)

Yvonne Clarke elected as first Filipina MLA in the Yukon Legislative Assembly

Clarke beat incumbent Liberal Paolo Gallina in Porter Creek Centre

News
Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Brendan Hanley. (Crystal Schick/Yukon News file)

New COVID-19 case confirmed in rural Yukon community

An exposure notification has been issued for Andrea’s Restaurant in Watson Lake

Food trucks gather on Steele Street between Front and Second for the annual Street Eats Festival in Whitehorse on August 12, 2019. (Julien Gignac/Yukon News file)

May 1 could mark the start of the 2021 food truck season

Lottery for downtown sites set for April 28

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Obituaries

Barbara Marie Molund

Apr 8th, 2021

Carman MacKay

Apr 5th, 2021

Eleanor Lyla McIver

Apr 4th, 2021

Marilyn Dzaman

Mar 28th, 2021

Rod MacInnes

Mar 21st, 2021

Marlene Sudeyko

Mar 18th, 2021

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    From left to right, Pascale Marceau and Eva Capozzola departed for Kluane National Park on April 12. The duo is taking on the first all-woman expedition to Mt. Lucania. (Michael Schmidt/Icefield Discovery)

    First all-woman team among mountaineers heading to Kluane National Park

    One team will be exploring Mt. Logan while a second all-woman team aims for Mt. Lucania summit

    Dawson the dog sits next to the Chariot Patrick Jackson has loaded and rigged up to walk the Dempster Highway from where it begins, off the North Klondike Highway, to the Arctic Circle. (Submitted)

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    Anne Huang launched Anne’s Dumplings out of Yukon Food Provisions in December. (Gabrielle Plonka/Yukon News)

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