Two residents of Yukon’s Ibex Valley share their experiences renting a home in the area. They say it was uninhabitable and their landlord unfairly tried to raise the rent. Kurt Doerfling and his wife, Holly Doerfling, moved to the Yukon last summer, thinking they had found a bargain near the Old Alaska Highway in Ibex […]
The vacation rental industry has stepped up its efforts to lobby U.S. lawmakers to prevent more cities from imposing restrictions on short-term rentals in response to concerns about housing availability and quality of life. According to KeyData, a vacation rental analytics firm, growth in short-term rental supply has slowed in 17 of North America’s 30 […]
The Yukon coroner says her office is investigating a death related to a plane crash Monday at Haines Junction Airport in Yukon. According to the Transportation Safety Board (TSB), a Cessna U206G belonging to Rocking Star Adventures Ltd. crashed on Monday afternoon. The incident occurred shortly after 3:30 p.m. when the aircraft “collided with the […]
A CBC review of public inspection records found that 74 percent of Yukon restaurants violated health regulations. Reports available on the Yukon Department of Health and Welfare website indicate that one-third of the violations listed were critical. Although Yukon law does not explicitly define the term, health inspectors in other jurisdictions use “critical” to mean […]
