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The Whitehorse Public Library pictured on May 3. (Jim Elliot/Yukon News)
The Whitehorse Public Library pictured on May 3. (Jim Elliot/Yukon News)
A sign seen upon entering Beaver Creek on July 1, 2022. The community’s health centre will be seeing reduced services between May 4 to June 1, according to the territorial health department. (Dana Hatherly/Yukon News)

No nurse prompts Beaver Creek Health Centre to reduce services

Paramedic will be stationed at health centre for emergencies

A sign seen upon entering Beaver Creek on July 1, 2022. The community’s health centre will be seeing reduced services between May 4 to June 1, according to the territorial health department. (Dana Hatherly/Yukon News)
The salmon population was the focus of discussions during meetings in Fairbanks in April. (Courtesy/NOAA Fisheries)
The salmon population was the focus of discussions during meetings in Fairbanks in April. (Courtesy/NOAA Fisheries)
An undated photo of a silhouette. The Yukon government has announced an expansion of its chronic conditions program to include alcohol use disorder. (Pixabay.com)

Yukon government expanding chronic conditions program to cover alcohol use disorder

Government has also announced agreement to expand dementia services which are not yet available

An undated photo of a silhouette. The Yukon government has announced an expansion of its chronic conditions program to include alcohol use disorder. (Pixabay.com)
A Yukon Wildland Fire Managemen crew conduct a prescribed burn near the Alaska Highway weigh scales in Whitehorse in 2018. Prescribed burning for the 2023 season was set to begin this week. (Yukon News file)
A Yukon Wildland Fire Managemen crew conduct a prescribed burn near the Alaska Highway weigh scales in Whitehorse in 2018. Prescribed burning for the 2023 season was set to begin this week. (Yukon News file)
The Whitehorse Emergency Shelter at 405 Alexander St. is seen on March 7. (Lawrie Crawford/Yukon News)

Yukon coroner investigating 2 substance-use related deaths at Whitehorse shelter in 2023

Death toll from substance use continues to rise amid territory-wide substance use health emergency

The Whitehorse Emergency Shelter at 405 Alexander St. is seen on March 7. (Lawrie Crawford/Yukon News)
Premier Ranj Pillai speaks to reporters in the Yukon government cabinet office on March 30. Pillai has signed a memorandum of understanding focused on housing and investment with Ontario Premier Doug Ford. (Dana Hatherly/Yukon News)

Premier Pillai wants Ontario money to fuel Yukon’s housing development

Yukon and Ontario premiers have signed memorandum of understanding

Premier Ranj Pillai speaks to reporters in the Yukon government cabinet office on March 30. Pillai has signed a memorandum of understanding focused on housing and investment with Ontario Premier Doug Ford. (Dana Hatherly/Yukon News)
President Teresa Acheson of the Yukon Federation of Labour (second from the left) pays tribute to workers who have died or suffered injury or illness on the job or experienced a work-related tragedy during the National Day of Mourning on April 28. (Dana Hatherly/Yukon News)
President Teresa Acheson of the Yukon Federation of Labour (second from the left) pays tribute to workers who have died or suffered injury or illness on the job or experienced a work-related tragedy during the National Day of Mourning on April 28. (Dana Hatherly/Yukon News)
The Yukon Territorial Court passed a sentence on a former Whitehorse teacher found guilty of raping a teenager who had previously been his student more than 30 years ago. (Jim Elliot/Yukon News)

Former Whitehorse teacher sentenced for raping former student more than 30 years ago

Paul Deuling faces three years behind bars and additional conditions. May appeal his conviction.

The Yukon Territorial Court passed a sentence on a former Whitehorse teacher found guilty of raping a teenager who had previously been his student more than 30 years ago. (Jim Elliot/Yukon News)
Homes along Witch Hazel Drive in the Whistle Bend neighbourhood where an attempted break-in occurred on April 12. (Submitted)
Homes along Witch Hazel Drive in the Whistle Bend neighbourhood where an attempted break-in occurred on April 12. (Submitted)
RCMP cruiser passes by police building in Whitehorse on May 17, 2022. (Dana Hatherly/Yukon News file)

Search underway for missing woman

Ramona Peter was last seen April 21

RCMP cruiser passes by police building in Whitehorse on May 17, 2022. (Dana Hatherly/Yukon News file)
City of Whitehorse engineering manager Taylor Eshpeter discusses plans to mechanically remove concerning portions of the escarpment overlooking Robert Service Way on May 1. (Jim Elliot/Yukon News)
City of Whitehorse engineering manager Taylor Eshpeter discusses plans to mechanically remove concerning portions of the escarpment overlooking Robert Service Way on May 1. (Jim Elliot/Yukon News)
The Yukon Writers’ Festival will get underway at the Whitehorse Public Library on May 3 at 6:30 p.m.

Yukon Writers’ Festival returns

Authors will give readings, mentor young writers

The Yukon Writers’ Festival will get underway at the Whitehorse Public Library on May 3 at 6:30 p.m.
The Dawson hockey team that flew to Fairbanks in March 1936 to compete with Alaskan teams included Helmer Samuelson (far left), Joe Redmond (front centre in white hockey shorts), and Roy Butterworth (behind Redmond, wearing goalie pads). The man at the far right in the fur coat is coach James K. “Jimmy” Johnston. John Dines (back row, far right) also accompanied the team to Fairbanks. Other members of the team were Captain “Sox” Troberg, Reg Wynes (defence), Ralph Zaccarelli, Jack Cunningham, Norman Reid and Ken Owen. (Submitted)

History Hunter: Old hockey photo recalls memories from the 1930s

My wife Kathy recently acquired an interesting photograph from the Alaskan collection…

The Dawson hockey team that flew to Fairbanks in March 1936 to compete with Alaskan teams included Helmer Samuelson (far left), Joe Redmond (front centre in white hockey shorts), and Roy Butterworth (behind Redmond, wearing goalie pads). The man at the far right in the fur coat is coach James K. “Jimmy” Johnston. John Dines (back row, far right) also accompanied the team to Fairbanks. Other members of the team were Captain “Sox” Troberg, Reg Wynes (defence), Ralph Zaccarelli, Jack Cunningham, Norman Reid and Ken Owen. (Submitted)
Watson Lake will see an increase of about $100,000 in the municipal grant it receives from the Yukon government. (Wikimedia Commons)

Yukon government grants to municipalities increased by more than $1 million

All incorporated municipalities received increased ‘unconditional’ grant

Watson Lake will see an increase of about $100,000 in the municipal grant it receives from the Yukon government. (Wikimedia Commons)
The City of Whitehorse landfill. (Alistair Maitland/Yukon News file)

Yukon government inks waste management deals with Teslin and Watson Lake

Territorial funding will assist communities providing landfill service to rural residents

The City of Whitehorse landfill. (Alistair Maitland/Yukon News file)
A person pulls out their phone in downtown Whitehorse on April 27. (Dana Hatherly/Yukon News)
A person pulls out their phone in downtown Whitehorse on April 27. (Dana Hatherly/Yukon News)
The Yukon River in Whitehorse, which hardly froze over the winter of 2022/23, was flowing free with few ice floes by April 27. (Jim Elliot/Yukon News)

Ice breakup presents flooding risk near Dawson

Snow bulletin predicts normal freshet for most of the territory

The Yukon River in Whitehorse, which hardly froze over the winter of 2022/23, was flowing free with few ice floes by April 27. (Jim Elliot/Yukon News)
A voter is shown at a Whitehorse polling station during the territorial elections on April 12, 2021. (Mark Kelly/Canadian Press)

Yukoners should vote on proposed changes to Yukon’s voting system: electoral reform committee

All-party special committee on electoral reform has made three recommendations in its final report

A voter is shown at a Whitehorse polling station during the territorial elections on April 12, 2021. (Mark Kelly/Canadian Press)
Yukon NDP Leader Kate White (left), Premier Ranj Pillai and Yukon Party Leader Currie Dixon spoke with reporters on the final day of the spring sitting of the Yukon Legislative Assembly on April 27. (Dana Hatherly/Yukon News)

Yukon MLAs pass territorial government’s $1.94-billion budget as spring sitting winds up

Official Opposition votes against budget in expression of non-confidence

Yukon NDP Leader Kate White (left), Premier Ranj Pillai and Yukon Party Leader Currie Dixon spoke with reporters on the final day of the spring sitting of the Yukon Legislative Assembly on April 27. (Dana Hatherly/Yukon News)