‘A lot of hopes and dreams’: First Nations school board now a reality in Yukon
The new board will allow for First Nations’ communities to have greater oversight over education.
Sara Connors
Sara Connors is originally from Nova Scotia and has a Journalism degree from the University of King’s College in Halifax. After graduation she worked in South Korea for two years as an English Language teacher and freelance journalist. After she returned home in 2019 she worked behind the scenes at CTV Atlantic in Halifax before joining APTN's Yukon bureau in July 2020.
Kwanlin Dün First Nation in Yukon is trying to figure out where the Chinook salmon are
Chinook salmon at crisis levels says First Nations in Yukon.
Indigenous peoples at greater risk of flooding caused by climate change: study
River flooding is more likely to impact Indigenous populations.
Man sentenced to 18 years in beating deaths of two Whitehorse women
Everett Chief will serve two nine-year sentences consecutively for the deaths of Sarah MacIntosh and Wendy Carlick
Wanted: Teachers in northern Canada as school year starts
The new school year is right around the corner and Canada’s northern territories are reporting…
‘People will eat this year’: First Nations celebrate salmon rebound after Big Bar landslide
Fish watchers say 280,000 salmon made it upstream of the slide site this summer
‘A sad, crazy story’: First Nations woman in Turkey still awaiting extradition to Canada
Charman Smith was convicted of smuggling the leafy drug khat into Turkey
Coroner’s inquest ordered into deaths of two women at Whitehorse Emergency Shelter
Inquest will look into circumstances surrounding two drug-related deaths at the shelter
‘We failed her family’: Yukon RCMP apologize for shoddy investigation into 1967 death
Coroner’s inquest concluded Tootsie Jimmy-Charlie died of “misadventure”