 | | | | May 17 , 2026 at 12:10:13 p.m. CDT • : | | A Sunday morning fire destroyed the Westminster Hotel, aka the Pit. There were no known reports of injuries or threats to neighboring buildings at this time. It was the town's de facto living room, a 125-year-old institution where locals gathered and marked life's milestones. | | Read more | |  | | | | May 17 , 2026 at 06:00:00 a.m. CDT • : | | 76-year-old Brian Lendrum, who is blind, spent decades learning to locate and identify birds by sound. But now, he says, as he ages his hearing is "just very, very gradually going down every year." | | Read more | |  | | | | May 17 , 2026 at 11:03:36 a.m. CDT • : | | Canada's public health agency confirmed a positive case of hantavirus in a Canadian isolating in British Columbia after leaving the cruise ship affected by a deadly outbreak. | | Read more | | |  | | | | May 17 , 2026 at 03:00:00 a.m. CDT • : | | Regional authorities requested an audit in May 2025 after several fatal police-involved shootings in the region. The report focuses on pathways to boost Inuit representation in policing and allow Nunavik authorities to have greater control over its services. | | Read more | |  | | | | May 16 , 2026 at 02:42:01 p.m. CDT • : | | A news release from the police says Nasha Alana Wong was last seen around 9 p.m. on Thursday.
They say she was seen about two to three kilometres south of Elsa, Yukon, along the Silver Trail Highway, which is about 450 kilometres from Whitehorse. | | Read more | | | |
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