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With larger city hall project cancelled, officials looks at expanding, renovating and retrofitting existing buildings

The City of Whitehorse is on a deadline to finish a major upgrade project to city hall, or risk losing out on some funding to help cover the $26.2-million price tag.

Whitehorse plans major city hall renovation Whitehorse officials unveiled a plan on Wednesday for major renovations to city hall. It would amount to a major change to the streetscape on Second Avenue downtown. Social Sharing

Sewage pumped from septic tanks at country residential properties and dumped into the city’s treatment system may be the source of sand chewing up big industrial pumps, council heard Monday night. Peter O’Blenes, the city’s director of infrastructure and operations, told council it’s believed the majority of sand is coming from the country residential properties. After septic tanks are pumped out by private operators, there is a place at the lift station where the sewage can be disposed of so it can be pumped across the river to the sewage treatment facility, O’Blenes explained. It�...