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In less than a month, Skagway voters will cast ballots for two open borough assembly seats. But one more seat may be vacant soon. Some residents have spoken up at recent meetings about their hopes for the future of that spot on the assembly. Earlier this year,...

It was standing room only at Thursday’s town hall meeting about the Portage Cove Harbor Expansion Project. About 40 people, both for and against the multi-million-dollar venture, crowded into the Haines Public Library to hear an update from Public Facilities Director...

Unreliable cell phone service frustrated Skagway residents last summer. Some hope emerged in October, when AT&T announced plans to upgrade its network by summer of 2016. But a spokesman says those plans have stalled. And people in Skagway have noticed, as they...

Researchers from New Mexico and Denmark were in Haines, Klukwan and Juneau the past couple months interviewing Alaska Native people about identity. After surveying more than 100 people, they presented the initial results from the study at the Haines Library and the...

It was a record-breaking year for Skagway’s Santa Train. The free holiday event attracted nearly 600 passengers eager to meet Santa and ride on the White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad. 5-year-old Isaac Powell was the first child in line to meet Mr. Claus. "I came up...

Haines School now has a physical education teacher and high school girls’ basketball coach who trained an NBA team for 20 years. And what might be even more surprising -- Greg Brittenham says despite his high-profile jobs with the New York Knicks and later with Wake...