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  The weather forecast predicted mild flooding. But on Tuesday afternoon, travelers in the Yukon found multiple rockslides in their way. No injuries were reported. About 130 cruise passengers on a Yukon and White Pass Route railroad tour were unable to return to...

  The Center for Disease Control announced some new rules meant to keep rabies out of the US. Beginning August 1st, the rules will make it more complicated for dogs to come into the country. Among other things, the agency required all U.S. bound dogs be...

  The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is closing the Chilkoot and Lutak inlets, and the Chilkoot river and lake, to subsistence fishing. The agency said waters north of Battery Point are off limits.   The closure is planned to be in effect through August. To...

The National Weather Service has issued a flood advisory for the Chilkat and Taiya rivers. Only minor flooding is expected. We spoke with Ben Linstid, who is a meteorologist with the weather service in Juneau.  

The Coast Guard has suspended the search for the missing airplane that carried three people on the way to Yakutat. We spoke with Lt Cmdr Mike Salerno, public affairs officer for the Coast Guard     The people onboard the plane were Sam Wright, a Haines...

  The Coast Guard has been searching the Fairweather range since a plane failed to arrive at its destination on Saturday afternoon. The plane was flying from Juneau to Yakutat. Three people were onboard, according to the coastguard they are Sam Wright, a Haines...

A celebrated and familiar face visited Skagway to discuss the pronunciation of local places. Participants came from Juneau, Canada and Deiyáa, otherwise known as Dyea, to hear Lance Twitchell speak. The Lingít professor says there is a new translation for the word...

  Late on a sunny Thursday morning, an alarm warned everyone in downtown Haines of an approaching tsunami. And a volcanic event. The siren told residents to evacuate the area. And also to shutter their windows. This was a test -of the town’s new mass emergency...

Episode 6: Solutions/Conclusion Molly McClskey: 644. That's how many housing units were in Skagway, Alaska, in 2020. That's according to a reportby the Skagway Development Corporation in 2023. Remember two-thirds of them are owner-occupied. One-third are occupied by...

  The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has issued an emergency order. Starting Thursday, sports fishermen on the Chilkoot are prohibited from keeping any sockeye salmon they catch. Anglers may keep up to six pink and six chum salmon per day, but sockeyes are...