The controversial Lutak Dock Project took top priority in the Haines Borough Assembly meeting on Tuesday night.  The assembly met in executive session with the borough attorney to discuss Lutak Dock issues

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A recent change in the Haines Borough law codified the long-standing protocol on how to process dead bodies.  Dead bodies must be processed within 72 hours of arriving at the morgue.

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The Haines girls basketball team took first place over the weekend at the Heather Land Basketball Tournament in Skagway.     And, when storms over the New Year prevented a Skagway teacher from traveling to run a marathon, he created his own.

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Police are investigating a spike in air pollution that occurred recently in Skagway.  They have found the cause of pollution but are waiting for test results from the Department of Environmental Conservation before moving forward.  And…After consulting with the Skagway Traditional Council, Mayor Sam Bass has settled on the wording for the Land Acknowledgment Statement […]

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In September, forty-eight hours before hunting season started, a moose escaped from a Haines wildlife center.  Two days before Christmas, he returned back to the center unharmed.

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On December 22, FEMA issued a formal letter to the Haines Borough, explaining in detail their decision to terminate funding for repairs to Porcupine Road.  The agency’s determination leaves Haines Borough responsible for more than one million dollars in work already incurred on the project.  And, work on the rockslide at 15 miles Haines highway […]

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A Skagway high school Senior who is blind will now have better access to library materials after a fourth grader, who is also visually impaired, lobbied the Skagway School Board to stock its library with braille books. Reporting by Jenn Shelton.  

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Haines elected officials recently learned that the contractor in charge of rebuilding the Lutak dock has purchased $10M worth of steel for the project. This commitment to a design that newly elected leaders had expressed interest in changing surprised and angered borough officials. The announcement has caused a crisis of confidence in the borough’s administration, […]

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A report on Skagway’s last Borough Assembly Meeting. And, the Department of Transportation has sent a notice that the Haines highway will be closed Wednesday at 9PM and through the night.

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A rockslide shut down the Highway 15 miles from Haines on Saturday evening. One car was destroyed, but no one was injured. And, the Arctic has been warming much faster in recent decades, and this year, parts of northern Alaska experienced its warmest July on record. As KNOM’s Ava White reports, 2023 was the sixth […]

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