http://yukon-news.com/ The latest news stories from the Yukon News of Whitehorse Yukon. en-ca webadmin@yukon-news.com (Website Feedback) Copyright 2010 Yukon News All Rights Reserved Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:00:57 GMT http://yukon-news.com/layout/header/logo_sml.gif http://yukon-news.com/ http://yukon-news.com/news/19527/ http://yukon-news.com/news/19527/#When:09:00:57Z Icy Waters produces 140,000 pounds of Arctic char annually. Now, the Whitehorse business is setting its sights on chinook. The proposal to raise the majestic Yukon fish in large tanks will strike some as heretical: this much Jonathan Lucas, the company’s manager, knows. He’s also sure the venture will be a money-loser in the short run. News Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:00:57 GMT http://yukon-news.com/sports/19508/ http://yukon-news.com/sports/19508/#When:09:00:36Z With 13 martial arts and combat sports packed into one event, the first SportAccord World Combat Games has something to offer those into kicks, punches, holds and takedowns. Sports Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:00:36 GMT http://yukon-news.com/news/19515/ http://yukon-news.com/news/19515/#When:09:00:26Z The manager of Yukon’s Corporate Document Destruction Centre has won a Premier’s Award of Excellence. News Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:00:26 GMT http://yukon-news.com/news/19517/ http://yukon-news.com/news/19517/#When:09:00:05Z Alaskan authorities are vowing to take “a more conservative approach” to managing the Yukon River’s chinook next year, following the lacklustre return of the fish to Canadian waters. News Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:00:05 GMT http://yukon-news.com/news/19525/ http://yukon-news.com/news/19525/#When:09:00:02Z Joanna Macy is one of the green movement’s old lionesses - a woman who began her quest to boost environmental awareness by breaking into a nuclear reactor in the 1970s. News Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:00:02 GMT http://yukon-news.com/news/19540/ http://yukon-news.com/news/19540/#When:09:00:01Z Mickey Rooney’s a grumpy curmudgeon. The singing, dancing octogenarian’s been through murder, deceit, fame, drug addiction, suicide pacts, angel visitations, born-again Christianity and war. News Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:00:01 GMT http://yukon-news.com/news/19469/ http://yukon-news.com/news/19469/#When:09:00:55Z There are things that should never be done with Tabasco sauce and lime juice. Snorting the peppery sauce up your nose and squeezing lime juice into your eyes is one example. News Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:00:55 GMT http://yukon-news.com/letters/19468/ http://yukon-news.com/letters/19468/#When:09:00:51Z Growing food in the Yukon Ð it’s a good thing People who support, raise and grow food in the Yukon are an asset to this community.  Yukon is home to many individuals, families and communities dedicated to growing vegetables (whether in backyard gardens o Letters Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:00:51 GMT http://yukon-news.com/sports/19472/ http://yukon-news.com/sports/19472/#When:09:00:47Z The cleverly named, newly formed Team Scarecrow was hoping to put the fright in Anchorage’s Skinny Raven: Take No Prisoners at this month’s Klondike Trail of ‘98 International Road Relay. Sports Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:00:47 GMT http://yukon-news.com/news/19484/ http://yukon-news.com/news/19484/#When:09:00:38Z Federal money funnelled into Beaufort Sea drilling Ottawa is spending $2.18 million in the Yukon to research offshore drilling in the Beaufort Sea. News Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:00:38 GMT http://yukon-news.com/news/19479/ http://yukon-news.com/news/19479/#When:09:00:33Z On the heels of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s five-day northern tour, Canada’s information and privacy commissioners are meeting in Whitehorse to discuss government transparency. News Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:00:33 GMT http://yukon-news.com/sports/19473/ http://yukon-news.com/sports/19473/#When:09:00:31Z For weeks now, as often as twice a day, before and after work, Whitehorse’s Joel Brennan, has been putting his boat in the water as a freestyle kayak enthusiast. Sports Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:00:31 GMT http://yukon-news.com/arts/19487/ http://yukon-news.com/arts/19487/#When:09:00:23Z Billeh Nickerson cornered his classmates in the high school cafeteria everyday after lunch to read them his poems. “After people eat, they don’t move as fast,” says Dawson’s current Berton House writer-in-residence. Arts Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:00:23 GMT http://yukon-news.com/letters/19474/ http://yukon-news.com/letters/19474/#When:09:00:20Z We welcome financial review Re Music Yukon Indebted To Government published in the August 25 Yukon News: It is very unfortunate that many people who looked at this article may have already formed a negative opinion of Mark Smith and his work at Music Yu Letters Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:00:20 GMT http://yukon-news.com/news/19485/ http://yukon-news.com/news/19485/#When:09:00:19Z Call it the pay-as-you-go plan to protect Yukon’s fragile wetlands and alpine meadows. Responding to the push to ban all-terrain vehicles from breaking new trails, the Yukon Off-Road Riders Association has a counterproposal. News Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:00:19 GMT