Skagway grapples with mask mandates; The public comment period for the Alaska Native Veterans land allotment ends August 10th.

Skagway’s for-profit daycare providers get another year of municipal support—but this time it’s coming from stimulus funds. Skagway will put nearly $20,000 of municipal stimulus money towards year-round daycares. Finance chair Steve Burnham proposed the idea at Wednesday’s Finance Committee meeting. He told KHNS it’s stop-gap solution in response to parent outcry after a 2019 […]

Commercial gillnetters in Haines have had a difficult fishing season. Between the time constraints, low prices for fish and a weak chum salmon return, many local fishermen have struggled to make a profit this summer. On a wet Tuesday afternoon, the local gillnet fleet returns to the Haines Small Boat Harbor. The two day window […]

Upper Lynn Canal fishermen face low prices and weak chum run; Pro-mask mandate petition garners hundreds of signatures in Skagway; Pinks start poor as forecast in Southeast

Alaska ranks among the top quarter of states with STD cases. Its syphilis outbreak began two years ago and cases continue to rise. The COVID-19 pandemic has prevented public health professionals from getting a handle on the sexually transmitted disease.  State epidemiologists recently reported the largest number of syphilis cases ever in the state—and there […]

This week school districts in Haines and Skagway will approve their final plans for reopening amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The schools will implement a number of health precautions to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.  Back in June, Alaska’s Department of Education and Early Development released the Smart Start framework to help schools figure […]

The Haines Economic Development Corporation board of directors named an interim executive director this week. David Simmons will head the local nonprofit in a part-time capacity through the end of the year. Simmons is a local business owner, who operates a shuttle and tour company that runs between Haines and the Yukon Territory. Board President […]

The Skagway Assembly will  consider a mask mandate in municipal buildings; Haines and Skagway districts work to finalize school reopening plans; Haines Economic Development Corporation names Interim Executive Director.

An arctic wolf pup that was born in captivity in the lower-48 moved to an Alaska facility this summer. The young wolf will have a job at a local wildlife center, teaching people about the wilderness.  It’s a quiet year without tourists at the Kroschel Wildlife Center at Mosquito Lake—except for the vocalizations from some […]

The traveling breast cancer screening unit that serves Southeast Alaska won’t be visiting small communities this year, due to COVID-19. For some communities, that means some women won’t receive their annual breast exam.  The whole point of the Breast Cancer Detection Center’s mobile unit is to give health care access to rural women who are […]