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Rock fall blocks Highway
A rockslide shut down the Highway 15 miles from Haines on Saturday evening. One car was destroyed, but no one was injured. On Saturday evening around 6.30, Mosquito Lake resident Josh Dallas was driving home. Dallas says he was driving relatively slow...

Arctic Report Card: Coming in Hot!
The Arctic has been warming much faster in recent decades, and this year, parts of northern Alaska experienced its warmest July on record. As KNOM’s Ava White reports, 2023 was the sixth warmest year the Arctic has seen in over a century’s worth of data (since...

Second Skagway Smoke Shop Secures Next Step
A second pot shop in Skagway is closer to fruition after a Dec. 14 Planning and Zoning meeting. The commission approved the first step of Boom Town Buds’ conditional use permit. Application 23-70, submitted by co-owners Dylan and Michael Healy, requested that...

Skagway Hosts Regional Robotics Competition
Skagway hosted its first Southeast robotics regional competition for high schoolers. They earned the most coveted prize, the Inspire Award. Eleven FIRST Tech Challenge teams converged on Skagway School last weekend. Their robots launched paper airplanes,...

Wrestling Team ends season on high note as basketball season heats up
For some of the Haines sports teams, the season is just getting started. For another, it’s ending on a high note. The Haines Glacier Bears wrestling team ended their spectacular season in stellar fashion. After a triumphant Region V tournament in Juneau that...

Dock contractor letter creates stir in Haines
The newly elected leaders of the Haines borough have shown an interest in a different design for the Lutak dock rebuilding project. Recent communications from the contractor indicate the company is committed to the current design. A consultant says we are...

Juneau pharmacy closes, slowing down Skagway prescription process.
Ron’s Apothecary Shoppe in Juneau closed after 50 years. The last day to fill prescriptions was Dec. 6. The news caused some discomfort in Skagway, a community with a limited dispensary and no local pharmacy. Many locals relied on Ron’s to ship their...

Skagway assembly meeting preview, with mayor Sam Bass
The Skagway borough assembly is meeting on Thursday. We spoke with mayor Sam Bass about the meeting agenda. There are a handful of items on the coming Skagway borough assembly meeting’s agenda. The assembly will discuss certifying that Skagway is...

Many cars damaged, no one injured on snowy Haines Highway
Traffic on the Haines highway has been limited due to weather for the last week. Canadian crews have been busy clearing the snow, enough so that some convoys have been able to follow a pilot car through the pass on some days. On Saturday, multiple cars in the...

New Leadership Lights Up Haines Chamber
The Haines Chamber of Commerce recently recruited a new director and assistant to the director. The new leadership is energized to build connections between consumers and local Haines businesses. The Haines Chamber of Commerce is a nonprofit...
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