The Haines Borough Assembly regroups after the first choice candidate for borough manager declines the job; Alaskans will have to start dialing all ten digits when making local phone calls.   The post Newscast – March 31, 2021 first appeared on KHNS Radio | KHNS FM.

It looks like a light agenda for the Skagway Assembly on Thursday, but looks can always be deceiving.   One of the main agenda items is what to do with the campground host cabin at the municipal campground on the Dyea Flats. This winter the Municipality briefly made it available for rent while it sat unoccupied […] The post Skagway Assembly meeting preview for this Thursday April 1, 2021 first appeared on KHNS Radio | KHNS FM.

With a break in the weather on Tuesday, Alaska Seaplanes did its finest to fill the void left by another ferry breakdown.  They flew three flights to Skagway and eight flights to Haines. Alaska Seaplanes, of course, doesn’t take vehicles.  Some well-connected travelers will enlist friends to drive their stranded automobiles onto the ferry when […] The post Travelers adjust to the MV Matanuska breakdown as Seaplanes remains only option for travel to the Upper Lynn Canal first appeared on KHNS Radio | KHNS FM.

The MV Matanuska breaks leaving travelers scrambling to adjust; KHNS’ Henry Leasia checks in with the National Weather Service for this week’s outlook. The post Newscast – March 30, 2021 first appeared on KHNS Radio | KHNS FM.

The Alaska Marine Highway cancels another weekly trip to the Upper Lynn Canal after the Matanuska breaks down again; The Haines Borough Police Department releases its crime statistics report for 2020. The post Newscast – March 29, 2021 first appeared on KHNS Radio | KHNS FM.

Another week in March, another ferry breakdown.  This time the MV Matanuska is stranded in Bellingham, Washington.  Its next return to the Upper Lynn Canal looks like it won’t be until April 6th. Mayor Andrew Cremata says he won’t know until Tuesday afternoon if he can put together another emergency solution, by hiring an Allen […] The post The MV Matanuska breaks down leaves travelers in limbo first appeared on KHNS Radio | KHNS FM.

You may have heard a couple of new terms on the streets of Skagway this spring.  Save our Skagway and Safe Skagway.  Both are part of the municipality’s plan to bring visitors into the city with a lack of large cruise ships or highway traffic looming again this summer. Cody Jennings from the Skagway Visitor […] The post Skagway touts a safe plan for summer tourism first appeared on KHNS Radio | KHNS FM.

Skagway’s medical clinic makes NARCAN available to residents; New data to be collected on landslide zones in Haines; Cruise ship emissions are studied in Juneau. The post Newscast – March 26, 2021 first appeared on KHNS Radio | KHNS FM.

Over 70,000 Americans died in 2019 after overdosing on illicit drugs.  Many of those overdoses were due to the ingestion of heroin and heroin laced with fentanyl.  Synthetic opioids like fentanyl are the most common drugs to cause an overdose.   Fentanyl is between 50-100 times stronger than heroin, and a small amount can have massive […] The post Skagway’s clinic makes NARCAN available to residents first appeared on KHNS Radio | KHNS FM.

In Monday’s House Finance Committee meeting at the state capitol in Juneau, a Department of Transportation official suggested some cost-saving measures, including ridding the fleet of one of its unused vessels, the MV Malaspina. It’s one of the fleet’s oldest ships, built in the 1960s, and it has been moored at Ward Cove in Ketchikan […] The post In an effort to save money, the Alaska Marine Highway considers sinking one of its oldest ferries first appeared on KHNS Radio | KHNS FM.