The Yukon government on Tuesday rescinded an evacuation alert issued earlier for several communities in the central territory, as rains have helped calm wildfires in the area.

Whitehorse city council voted unanimously Monday night to put the brakes on changes to the city's transit system and directed the city's administration to review feedback, consult with the public and report back with a new plan by end of year.

The Yukon government's paleontologist is calling a frozen baby woolly mammoth found this week near Dawson City the 'most important discovery in paleontology in North America.'

A partnership between the Council of Yukon First Nations (CYFN) and Connective, formerly known as the John Howard Society, will take over running the Whitehorse emergency shelter starting in October.

Dr. Sudit Ranade, the current medical officer of health for Lambton County in Ontario, will begin his new job in the Yukon on July 4.

Work to protect properties and critical infrastructure in Teslin, Yukon, continues Wednesday as the community remains under a flood warning. About 18,000 sandbags were filled Monday and Tuesday to help protect areas at risk of being flooded in the community.

A B.C.-based entomologist is asking people in the Yukon to send him dead mosquitoes to help him track whether climate change is luring them north, and whether they're introducing pathogens, such as the West Nile virus, to new areas.