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Haines Girls win Don Hather Basketball Tournament

Haines Girls win Don Hather Basketball Tournament

  The Haines girls’ basketball team took first place over the weekend at the Don Hather Basketball Tournament in Skagway.  The Haines boys finished in second place.  Skagway’s girls and boys’ teams took third and fourth places, respectively.     The...

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Skagway Local Runs His Own Race

Skagway Local Runs His Own Race

When storms over the New Year prevented a Skagway teacher from traveling to run a marathon he created his own.    Skagway teacher Cody Burnham intended to start the New Year off with a visit to family in Texas and his first marathon. He trained for 16 weeks. ...

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Soot and foul odor spreads across Skagway

Soot and foul odor spreads across Skagway

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.   On Dec. 23, Skagway residents...

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Prodigal moose returns to wildlife center for Christmas

Prodigal moose returns to wildlife center for Christmas

  This fall, forty-eight hours before hunting season started, a moose escaped from a Haines wildlife center. But, two days before Christmas, he returned back to the center unharmed.     Two days before this fall’s moose hunting season opener, the...

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FEMA officially denies funding for Porcupine road work

FEMA officially denies funding for Porcupine road work

  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...

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Normal traffic on Haines highway to resume

Normal traffic on Haines highway to resume

  Work on the rockslide at 15 miles Haines highway is wrapping up. Open traffic is expected to resume in the coming days.   Traffic has been constrained on the Haines highway since rockslides destroyed a passing car and obstructed the road just before...

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Skagway school library expands access

Skagway school library expands access

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.     Braille books are large and...

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Skagway Assembly discusses 9-1-1 down time and rental woes 

Skagway Assembly discusses 9-1-1 down time and rental woes 

  Last Thursday’s Skagway Borough Assembly meeting spent an extended amount of time on two discussion items: 911 glitches and a worsening housing crisis.  According to Police Chief Jerry Reddick, there have been nearly a dozen 9-1-1 outages in the past year,...

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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 ...