Heavy snowfall, freezing rain and black ice caused Yukon transportation officials to close the Haines Highway past the border Dec. 5, blocking the path to Haines Junction and Whitehorse for a week.
Yukon Territory Department of Highways and Public Works also closed the road from Haines Junction to Destruction Bay in Yukon Territory. Highway 1 was also closed from Haines Junction to about halfway to Whitehorse. Officials reopened that section on the afternoon of Dec.…