Fracking meetings wrap up in Yukon report due out this fall
A series of meetings on the future of fracking in the Yukon are wrapping up this week.
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Harper says no to renewed calls for public inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women
Speaking in Whitehorse Thursday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper again explained why his government would not call an inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women.
Yukon’s housing headache
The federal and Yukon governments are putting $16 million toward affordable housing in the territory.
Chinook salmon fishing banned in Yukon as stocks plunge
For years the Yukon chinook salmon run has been on the decline. But fishers and experts are calling this years run the worst one yet.
Yukon First Nation moves to boost Indigenous language
A Yukon First Nation is hoping to increase the number of Southern Tuchone speakers by creating their own Language Act.
New Zealand brings haka to the mound for softball championship
Ten teams from five continents are pitching it out at the 10th Junior Men’s World Championship this week in Whitehorse.
Industry faces uncertainty in wait for Peel court ruling
An area in the Yukon is under international scrutiny as First Nations, environmental groups and industry await a territorial Supreme Court decision on its future.
Theo Fleury talks hockey and dreams at Whitehorse hockey camp
Theo Fluery is a special guest at a youth hockey camp in Whitehorse.
Canada’s sanction war with Russia almost derailed Whitehorse Arctic parliamentarian meeting
The Harper government “blinked” when faced with the imminent cancellation of an upcoming meeting of parliamentarians from the Arctic region in the Yukon as a result of sanctions and counter-sanctions imposed by Ottawa and Moscow, says an NDP MP.