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The newspaper was founded in 1900 about a year after the Klondike Gold Rush ended. The paper was originally called the Northern Star, by was later changed to the White Horse Star, Whitehorse Daily Star and since 2019 as the Whitehorse Star.
Yukon was split from the Northwest Territories in 1898 as the Yukon Territory. The federal government's Yukon Act, which received royal assent on March 27, 2002, established "Yukon" as the territory's official name, although Yukon Territory remains in popular usage. Canada Post uses the territory's internationally approved postal abbreviation ...
Yukon is the second most populous of Canada's three territories with 40,232 residents as of 2021. [1] It is the smallest territory in land area at 472,345 km 2 (182,373 sq mi). [2] Yukon's eight municipalities cover only 0.2% of the territory's land mass [a] but are home to 72.2% of its population.
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On October 26, 2021, Ralph Shaw shot and killed two people in the town of Faro, in Canada's Yukon Territory.. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police were first alerted to the Faro in order to solve a case of Domestic violence but were then called after residents heard gunfire. [1]
Province or Territory City Police Force Description of Incident 2000-04-11 Alphonse, Paulsey "Paul" (67) British Columbia (Williams Lake) RCMP: Alphonse was a Secwepemc man who was beaten by RCMP officers and later died of his injuries, including broken ribs, a head injury and a boot print on his chest in hospital. [3] [87] [88] 2000-07-29
On October 30, 2020, the territory reported its first COVID-19 death, who was a resident of Watson Lake. [7] The first vaccine, of the Moderna type, was administered on January 4, 2021. [8] An ongoing outbreak is happening in the territory since November 2021.