A group of nonprofits in Haines are offering to help residents pick fruit from their trees for free. The new initiative aims to help the community take advantage of locally grown fruit while removing a possible bear attractant.  Haines has seen an increase in reports of encounters with bears in residential areas over the past […]

Haines volunteers offer to pick fruit trees to avoid attracting bears; Skagway offers to pay artists to paint murals on the ice rink fence at the rec center; Skagway Traditional Council joins nine other Southeast Alaska tribes in petition for new conservation rules in the Tongass National Forest.

Haines Borough discusses revenue generation through land sales; Efforts to reform AMHS continue.

Recently a group of volunteers in Haines planted a garden at the Mosquito Lake Community Center in an effort to promote food security. Now they are asking the borough to provide more federal pandemic relief funds to expand the project.  Aspiring young farm to table chef Chisel Triezenberg has been using the kitchen at the […]

Haines gardeners ask the borough to fund food security efforts; Skagway to use sales tax savings to fund small business grants program.

Skagway’s Assembly voted to pay for the local COVID-19 response with federal relief dollars and fund small business grants from municipal savings.  The money has changed, but the services haven’t. At Thursday’s meeting, the Skagway assembly voted to use $1.4 million in CARES Act funding to backfill the budget. That is, public safety or other […]

Skagway caregivers lose municipal funding after change to community grant program takes effect; NPS proposes new parking lot at Chilkoot trailhead; Hospitalizations related to COVID-19 steadily increase in Alaska.

The Municipality of Skagway updated its policy for community funding grants last year. Those changes are taking effect now. And it has some private childcare providers saying they got left behind. Skagway’s Assembly voted to change eligibility for community grants last spring. Now, only non-profits qualify for municipal assistance. Private childcare provider Linda Calver didn’t […]

A 50-year-old Haines woman suspected of a string of arsons while on hallucinogenic mushrooms is in custody Wednesday. The fires damaged an art gallery and a private home. Haines resident Tresham Gregg was nearly asleep when he learned that his art space, the Sea Wolf Gallery, had caught fire Tuesday night. He says he was […]

Haines businesses will have another chance to apply for CARES Act funding, the  biomass project is officially terminated, and SEARHC will provide COVID-19 testing for asymptomatic travelers to Haines. The Haines Borough Assembly voted to reopen the application window for Haines Small Business Emergency Grants, since over half the money remains unspoken for. That was […]