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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...

A couple that served Skagway in their golden years is continuing to give to the community through a scholarship program. A new scholarship is available to graduating seniors, and those who already graduated from Skagway School. The excitement was palpable as John...

In April, higher tax assessments for Skagway property owners of commercial historic district properties will begin arriving. The municipality said it delayed the action as long as it could.  The Municipality of Skagway notified commercial property owners in 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.   The March 21 Skagway Borough Assembly meeting included a board of appeals which upheld the original Planning and Zoning...

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.   Shouts and thuds filled the Elks social room as Skagway’s women and children took part in self defense...

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,...