Whitehorse, Yukon News

Yukon News is one of the two independent newspapers based in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. Established in 1960, it initially published weekly until the late 1970s. Today, it prints twice a week, with its Monday issue available exclusively online. The Yukon News has earned multiple awards at both national and regional levels for its excellence in reporting, photography, design, and layout.

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Yukonomist: A debt-fuelled pre-election budget

4 days ago | yukon-news.com | Keith Halliday

Consider this scenario: The premier of a tired government, hoping the party can win another term after a decade in power, has one last budget before facing the voters. He decides to run a big cash deficit, ramp up spending and announce major new projects in health and power generation. I’m talking, of course, about former Yukon Party Premier Darrell Pasloski in 2016. His last budget ramped the spending with a cash deficit up to $75 million.
Yukonomist: The Yukon's second favourite metal takes a tumble

1 week ago | yukon-news.com | Keith Halliday

Two weeks ago I wrote about how it might be time to dig up your gold stash as the iconic Yukon metal soared past the psychologically important US$3000 per ounce mark. This week let’s look at the Yukon’s second favourite metal: copper. On March 31, it was named “2025’s hottest commodity” by the Wall Street Journal, before tumbling sharply last week as markets reacted to President Trump’s tariff plans. Copper is vastly more useful than gold.
VIDEO: UBC Okanagan guard makes history, signs with CEBL team

2 weeks ago | yukon-news.com | Bowen Assman

Jalen Shirley has officially made history. The fourth-year dynamic scoring guard from the UBC Okanagan Heat has been drafted to the Canadian Elite Basketball League's (CEBL) Edmonton Stingers. This marks the first time a Heat player has been selected in the draft. "This has been my dream since I was a kid," Shirley told Kelowna Capital News. "I always wanted to play at the next level and be a professional." The CEBL, now in its seventh season, is the premier basketball league in the country.
NUNAVUT MINING: Goose mine set to pour first gold in June

2 weeks ago | yukon-news.com | Kira Wronska Dorward

The initial gold produced from Nunavut's newest mine is expected to be just several weeks away. “The mine continues to [be] under construction. It is on track to pour first gold in June of 2025, so in the next couple months," said B2Gold's Randall Chatwin, senior vice-president of legal and corporate communications, while discussing the Goose mine.
Alaska Highway closed due to fuel spill: Federal government

2 weeks ago | yukon-news.com | Jim Elliot

According to a road report issued by Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC), a federal government body, the Alaska Highway is closed due to a fuel spill at Toad River south of Muncho Lake. An update on the closure is anticipated at 3 p.m. The closure is at KM 668 of the highway. Highway 37, the other road route from British Columbia into the Yukon, may also be seeing traffic disruptions today.
History Hunter: Richard A. Fox - A Yukon Star Rover

2 weeks ago | yukon-news.com | Michael Gates

The Yukon has a history of fostering colourful and interesting characters: Swiftwater Bill, Klondike Joe Boyle, George Carmack, Chief Isaac, and all the Colourful Five Per Cent characters featured by Yukon artist, Jim Robb. But not all have achieved the notoriety bestowed upon such interesting individuals I have mentioned above. Take Richard Andrew Fox, for example. R.A. Fox was an American who came to the Yukon during the gold rush of 1898, and remained in Dawson for the next 52 years.
Yukonomist: Crisis, what crisis?

2 weeks ago | yukon-news.com | Keith Halliday

“Ask not what you can do for your country, ask instead for a convention centre.” Snap quiz: Which famous statesperson said that? Was it Canadian “Minister of Everything” C.D. Howe when we needed to massively ramp up defence production during World War Two? President John F. Kennedy, trying to rally the democratic world against the challenge of Soviet authoritarianism? Or President Barack Obama when he launched an emergency economic plan to counter the Global Financial Crisis in 2009?
Whitehorse firefighters rescue cat stuck in tree

2 weeks ago | yukon-news.com | Jim Elliot

Porter Creek residents witnessed an event that was a little cliché but entirely admirable as the Whitehorse Fire Department deployed a ladder truck to save a spooked cat from a tall tree. Tom Patrick was in the Boxwood Crescent area on April 2 when the fire department arrived at around 5 p.m. in search of the cat. He says it was a roughly 90-minute effort for four firefighters to get the cat out of the tree but they were able to get a handle on it and bring it down the ladder.
Yukoners learn about allergies, genetics and more at BC Children's Hospital event

3 weeks ago | yukon-news.com | Jim Elliot

Professionals affiliated with BC Children’s Hospital brought information on their cutting-edge health science work to Yukon schools and to the public at MacBride Museum. The visiting programs conducted by the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute were the Mini Med School held at high schools around Whitehorse and the Mini Science Night at the museum on March 27.
Trade deficit: what is it, and what does it mean for Canada and the U.S. - Yukon News

Dec 19, 2024 | yukon-news.com

Inside the $41B gap between what Canada sells to the U.S. and what the U.S. sells to Canada