https://khns.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/081820newscast.mp3 4 Skagway residents file to run for borough assembly; Road in Hoonah closes in order to complete improvements for fish passage; New biography details the life and times of Alaska naturalist and radio personality Richard Nelson. The post Newscast - August 18, 2020 first appeared on KHNS Radio | KHNS FM.

When Canadian border agents deemed one Skagway News publisher’s trip back to Skagway non-essential, it left her operating a local paper… remotely. Gretchen Wehmhoff and Melinda Munson bought the Skagway News in March, not long before Canada’s border closed to non-essential travel. Munson relocated to Skagway with her family, but Wehmhoff planned to split her […]

COVID-19 has left many businesses reliant on government programs to keep their doors open. But for two new businesses in the Upper Lynn Canal, those relief dollars have been out of reach. To qualify for most COVID-19 emergency funds, businesses need to show last year’s tax returns. It’s an easy way for officials to gauge […] The post New businesses don't qualify for COVID-19 relief money first appeared on KHNS Radio | KHNS FM.

A Haines man was awarded a prize in the town’s Fourth of July parade when he donned a Donald Trump mask and drove a car that had been cut in half. A week later, local police cited the man, who has a history of seizures, for driving without a license. A local judge dismissed the […] The post Judge dismisses case against Haines man with epilepsy who drove parade float first appeared on KHNS Radio | KHNS FM.

https://khns.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/081420newscast.mp3 New local businesses left out of COVID-19 economic relief programs; Haines waterfront transforms as development projects continue. The post Newscast - August 14, 2020 first appeared on KHNS Radio | KHNS FM.

The Haines Borough Assembly has scrapped plans to ask voters if they support amending the borough charter to include emergency police response as a borough-wide power. Instead, the assembly voted to interpret the charter’s provision for borough-wide emergency dispatch to allow Haines police to respond to emergencies outside the townsite. https://khns.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/12PoliceService.mp3 The loss of a […]

https://khns.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/081220newscast.mp3 Haines assembly scraps plans for police ballot measure; Skagway newspaper owner turned away at the Canadian border.  

https://khns.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/081120Newscast.mp3 SEARHC offers asymptomatic testing in Klukwan; Applications for financial assitance through Chilkat Indian Village’s COVID-19 Tribal Relief Program due Wednesday; Skagway Development Corporation Executive Director Kaitlyn Jared discusses economic relief grants for Skagway businesses.  

Sunday sailing of the AMHS ferry Leconte canceled after crew member tests positive for COVID019; Haines Borough Assembly revisits the issue of police service outside the townsite; Lynn Canal gillnetters get more time to fish this week.

The municipality of Skagway moves closer to a mask mandate, small businesses will be eligible for local relief money, and the Dahl Memorial Clinic got a second ventilator. This is your Skagway Assembly recap. An ordinance that would require cloth face coverings in all municipal buildings, including the school, passed its first reading at a […]