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KHNS News – Feb. 2, 2015

KHNS News – Feb. 2, 2015

The Haines School Board will vote on new hires and revisit Mosquito Lake School student numbers; An investigation raises concerns about Canadian mines in watersheds that drain into or near the Inside Passage; Two Southeast commercial crab fisheries to open this month;...

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Homeless couple finds housing in Haines

Homeless couple finds housing in Haines

Haines doesn’t have a shelter or official services for people experiencing homelessness. There are local organizations that do what they can to help – a lot of the time that means providing a one-way ferry ticket to Juneau, the closest town with a homeless shelter. So...

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Rate increase approved for AP&T power customers

By Margaret Friedenauer About 7,200 rural Alaskans will see their power bills go up after the first of the year. That’s because the Regulatory Commission of Alaska (RCA) last week approved an 11.18 percent rate increase for customers of Alaska Power Company, a...

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Bird flu prompts BC poultry import ban

By Margaret Friedenauer The Fraser Valley in southern British Columbia is one of the leading poultry producing areas in North America. But a recent outbreak of bird flu is keeping Fraser Valley birds off the U.S. market this holiday season. The U.S. Department of...

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KHNS News – Feb. 2, 2015

KHNS News – Dec. 3, 2014

The state files for a permit to begin construction on the Juneau Access Project; The Haines School Board fills two vacant seats; DOT says spraying is still planned for Thorne Bay next year; and UAS delays a survey on the prevalence of campus sexual assault.

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KHNS News – Feb. 2, 2015

KHNS News – Dec. 1, 2014

Haines Police make arrest in burglary case; Skagway Assembly postpones vote on new port director position; Haines School board to appoint two members Tuesday; Update on Southeast dive fishery; Hoonah and its village Native corporation are moving ahead with plans to...

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Chilkat Valley Preschool to ask for lease extension

Chilkat Valley Preschool to ask for lease extension

Board members and staff at the Chilkat Valley Preschool are working to find a new home for their program. But they don’t think the deadline the Haines Borough has given them to vacate their current facility will work. The Chilkat Valley Preschool serves 26...

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Bothersome Skagway bear shot

Bothersome Skagway bear shot

KHNS News A brown bear was killed early Tuesday in Skagway after weeks of the bear rummaging around town. Skagway Police Chief Ray Leggett says the male brown bear is the same one seen around town on an almost daily since early October, getting into trash, knocking...

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KHNS News – Feb. 2, 2015

KHNS News – Oct. 22, 2014

The Freeride World Tour looks to come to the mountains of Haines; Skagway residents get chance to weigh in on the Juneau Access Road Project; Medicare open enrollment begins; APC, state and communities try to come to settlement on power rate increase.

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