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Skagway’s clinic continues to grapple with its federal funding woes as it makes a plan to maintain compliance. AND Two credit unions answered the call for a possible second banking institution in Skagway. Both have plans to visit. 

Skagway highschool students took part in the statewide walkout last Thursday. The event was a learning opportunity for younger students. AND Skagway students of all ages took scraps from around town and repurposed them into eye-catching art for the school fashion...

Many Alaskans have to travel a long way for certain healthcare treatments. But a bill in the state House aims to close that distance by expanding the list of providers Alaskans can see without having to leave home. KFSK’s Shelby Herbert reports.

Two consultants visited Haines schools last week to update the district’s Strategic Plan. The visiting team conducted interviews and held community meetings.  As KHNS’s Jenn Shelton reports, the district hopes to have a new plan ready for action by the time doors open...

Skagway’s last assembly meeting addressed senior activity funding and liquor license confusion. Assembly members held not one, but two executive sessions. KHNS reporter Melinda Munson attended the meeting.

A representative from the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation and scientists from Skagway’s tribe met with Skagway residents to explain their beach monitoring program. It screens for unhealthy levels of fecal contamination that could pose a risk to...

Haines has a shy new band made up of brave old-timers.  Rusty Fingers is their name.  The group is geared toward people who at some point put down an instrument, but want to pick it back up again.  As KHNS’s Jenn Shelton reports, the secular string group meets on...

Chilkat Valley Preschool is teaming up with Haines Dental to teach the kids about oral hygiene.  The school is participating in an early education pilot program with the local SEARHC clinic. And, on Friday two dental professionals–and a dragon–visited the school to...

Traitor Joe’s, a Texas-based grocery chain known for discount prices on eclectic cowboy foods, is opening today in Haines.  In a news release on Friday, the company announced the surprise grand opening of its first Alaska store. It’s a business endeavor it managed to...

In April, higher tax assessments for Skagway owners of commercial historic district properties will begin arriving. The municipality said it delayed the action as long as it could.  AND A couple that served Skagway in their golden years is continuing to give to the...

The Haines Borough Assembly voted unanimously on Tuesday to charge a new $9 head tax for cruise ship passengers. The resolution, which still has to be voted into law and would not go into effect until 2025, would go towards port development and other services tied to...

A team of eight Haines women, seven of them mothers of little ones, earned their way to the championship game last week in Juneau’s Lions Club Gold Medal Basketball Tournament. The team came from behind, bruised but unbeaten, to compete in a David vs. Goliath...

The latest Skagway assembly meeting included appeals not to move a building, to spend more money on Ore Dock and to save cottonwood trees.  

Karate instructors made the trek from Juneau to Skagway to teach three self defense classes. Two courses were for women, and one was for ages five to 12.

Haines Friends of Recycling is about two months away from purchasing a piece of property near downtown, where it plans to relocate.  The non-profit hopes to build a covered collection area, which will accept almost all plastics.  And, plans for the new location...

Much of rural Alaska shares the same two problems: old buildings and the need for new housing.  Wrangell looks to solve both problems at once.  The borough is one step closer to selling its old, former hospital, the Wrangell Medical Center. The prospective buyer ...

The Haines Public Safety Building is $12 million closer to being replaced. Congress passed a budget bill earlier this month, which included money for a new building. The bill also provided nearly $100-thousand dollars to Becky’s Place, a Haines safehouse for survivors...

Haines’ trail-building nonprofit, Haines Huts and Trails, hired a new director last month. Erik Boraas spent nearly the last decade leading a nonprofit trail organization in Juneau.  Boraas has big plans to make Haines a travel destination for trail lovers of all...

At the eleventh hour of the Haines Borough Assembly meeting, Assembly Members voted to add a smaller dock alternative to the plans for the Lutak Dock project. Those voting in favor voiced the need to recognize members of the public who prefer a smaller-footprint...

The agenda for last Thursday’s Skagway Assembly meeting was packed, as was Assembly Chambers. Citizens testified about poultry infrastructure, and asked to keep the trees, please.