Category: YUKON

Yukon gov’t struggles to make problems disappear at emergency shelter

Mar 21, 2023 | Living, News, Politics, PROVINCES, YUKON

The Whitehorse Emergency Shelter at 405 Alexander Street on March 7, 2023 .Lawrie Crawford, Local...

Garbage burns while Old Crow residents wait for repairs to its high tech gasifier

Mar 16, 2023 | PROVINCES, YUKON

Ten years after a state-of-the-art gasification burner was installed in the tiny community of Old Crow, the machine awaits repairs and domestic garbage smoulders in a nearby metal container. In 2012, the News reported...

New drinking guidelines well below Yukon average booze use

Feb 12, 2023 | Canada, HEALTH, News, PROVINCES, YUKON

The national roll-out for the campaign to reduce overall alcohol consumption began in January, but was foreshadowed last August with a draft version of low-drinking guidelines. The national initiative dovetails with 2019 and...

Nutrition North program fails keeping food costs low at Old Crow YK Co-op

Jan 31, 2023 | Business, Canada, PROVINCES, Small Business, YUKON

Mathew Walsh and Steven Thomas took over the Old Crow Co-op store in August 2022. Lawrie Crawford,...

Caribou at the intersection of culture, environment and industry

Jan 23, 2023 | Business, Canada, Living, News, Politics, PROVINCES, YUKON

Reconciling industrial and enviromental interests is a continual problem for the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economicAssessment Board (YESAB). Projects have quickly become controversial when caribou are involved. BMC Minerals’...

Guidelines and in-person review for Yukon’s Casino mine

Jan 15, 2023 | Business, Canada, Politics, PROVINCES, YUKON

Western Copper and Gold Corporation CEO Paul West-Sells after speaking with media in Whitehorse on...

Yukon prices still rising, but fuel pain lessened at the pumps

Jan 14, 2023 | Canada, Living, PROVINCES, YUKON

Tables built from Statistics Canada’s most recent consumer price index for Whitehorse compared to...

Chinook salmon now ‘functionally extinct’

Jan 12, 2023 | PROVINCES, YUKON

Chinook salmon counts in 2022 saw a precipitous drop following alarming lows in the two previous years. From numbers in the last century in the range of 160,000 chinook, the last three years have been catastrophic, with only...