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Planning and Zoning searches for housing solutions

Planning and Zoning searches for housing solutions

The Planning and Zoning Commission held a work session Jan. 16. Each commissioner was assigned the task of submitting three ideas for improving the housing situation in Skagway.  Resident Sherry Corrington would have liked more time to study those submissions.  Sherry...

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Extraction taxes discussed at Haines Commerce Committee

Extraction taxes discussed at Haines Commerce Committee

The Haines Borough Assembly’s Commerce Committee brainstormed ideas for imposing a tax on extracted resources.  The tax would be modeled after taxes already in place in other Alaskan boroughs.  It would be limited to natural resources such as timber, gravel and ore...

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Haines Seniors and Preschoolers Break Bread

Haines Seniors and Preschoolers Break Bread

Preschoolers and seniors in Haines are getting back together for a weekly lunch date after a few years’ break. Chilkat Valley Preschool and the Senior Center share a building and have a history of visiting for lunch, although the meetings were paused for a few years...

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Skagway and Haines High School Basketball Updates

Skagway and Haines High School Basketball Updates

Skagway High School Basketball teams are playing in Hoonah this week.  And the Haines high school basketball teams played this weekend at home.   The Skagway Panthers boys and girls’ basketball teams are on the road in Hoonah. Both teams won Monday and will play...

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Winter utility assistance for Skagway residents

Winter utility assistance for Skagway residents

Winter utility assistance is available from now through April for Skagway residents.  Applications are due the second Friday of each month.   The Skagway Development Corporation (SDC) opened applications for 2024 utility assistance to Skagway residents.  Jon Hillis,...

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Paws and Claws toasts its 21st birthday

Paws and Claws toasts its 21st birthday

It’s National Dog Training month.  Skagway residents can enter to win a dog training platform or cat condo from Paws and Claws Animal Shelter. This year, Paws and Claws Animal Shelter celebrates its 21st anniversary. A resource to Skagway’s isolated pet owners, the...

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Landslide science talk and worksession coming to Petersburg

Landslide science talk and worksession coming to Petersburg

Sitka Sound Science Center's Lisa Busch is coming to Petersburg to talk about the potential of a landslide warning system. Southeast Alaska is prone to landslides. That’s because of the area’s heavy rain and the geology of the landscape – steep, forested mountains....

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Taxes, banking and potty talk at the Skagway Assembly meeting

Taxes, banking and potty talk at the Skagway Assembly meeting

Potty talk ran rampant at the Skagway Borough Assembly last week.  Winter bathroom closures were discussed and a call for outhouses on the Klondike Highway was flushed into action.  Mayor Sam Bass wants to bring local Alaska banks to the borough, and a tax will be...

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Haines Borough Amends Ordinance on Dead Bodies

A recent change in the Haines Borough law codified the long-standing protocol on how to process dead bodies.  KHNS’s Jenn Shelton has more.       The Haines Borough amended the city ordinance about dead bodies last October.  It added a provision, which says:...

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Newscasts

February 14, 2025

February 14, 2025

Haines has been searching for a police chief since November. The borough assembly and staff are moving forward ...

February 12, 2025

A new report in Haines chronicles which parts of the mountainous borough might be prone to future ...
February 11, 2025

February 11, 2025

The U.S. Forest Service has completed assessment reports on over 20 topics that will inform how the Tongass ...
February 10, 2025

February 10, 2025

A little more than two years after Skagway’s first fentanyl deaths, the man suspected of providing the drugs is ...
February 6, 2025

February 6, 2025

Skagway’s biggest restaurant is hiring. They need an indoor gardener to tend to their aeroponic lettuce and herb ...
February 5, 2025

February 5, 2025

The Haines Assembly is looking for ways to move forward after one assembly member verbally attacked another ...

Wellness Talk 02-03-25

Burl Sheldon talks with Todd Raining Bird, certified fitness nutrition specialist, certified personal trainer, and ...
February 3, 2025

February 3, 2025

Skagway resident Bill Glude knows snow. It’s his job to monitor the Klondike Highway between Skagway and the ...