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 The revision of the Haines comprehensive plan is moving along, we talked with Shelly Wade, who was in town last week to peak with community members as she prepares the draft plan.  

The preliminary results for the 2023 local elections came in on Tuesday night. The scores appear mostly settled in Haines, but the race in Skagway is not quite over.

 Elections are happening, power rates are going up, and bison numbers in Alaska are fluctuating.

Federal funding for repairing Haines’ Porcupine Road has been withdrawn. Some of the work has already been done, and, it is unclear whether the federal government will reimburse the Haines Borough. And, Klukwan and Haines residents came together downtown to voice...

Attendees at the SE Conference in Sitka last week devoted the better part of an afternoon (9-19-23) to the transportation outlook for the region, and for the first time in recent memory, it wasn’t all bad news. The infusion of federal transportation dollars into the...

  Students at the Klukwan school learned how to cut up and process a moose carcass over two days this week. This is a continuation of a local subsistence tradition that goes back generations.

Even though summer has come and gone, garage and estate sale season is still in full swing on the Kenai Peninsula. While they can be a fun experience, they also contribute to the local economy. KDLL’s Hunter Morrison has more.

After almost 13 years, Kay Clements is leaving her position as general manager of this radio station. Her dog Sully is leaving as well. We chatted with Kay about her career path, and her time at KHNS.

The Skagway Borough assembly has resumed its discussion of containerized ore transfers. As the community prepares to renovate its waterfront facilities, borough officials want to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past. And, The Chilkat Valley moose hunt is closing...

The official amount for the PFD is announced and a Southeast conference addresses the tightening housing market.

Alaska Power and Telephone is seeking to put a large rate increase on its customers in the upper Lynn Canal. The public comment period closed last week and many residents expressed dissatisfaction with the proposal. And, the Skagway Traditional Council is offering...

An opioid overdose reversal drug is now available over the counter throughout the state. And, six days into the fall moose hunt in the Chilkat valley, over half of the quota has already been harvested. We checked the numbers with Fish and Game biologist Carl Koch.

Haines’ only licensed daycare provider is losing assistance from a federal food program. The inspections necessary to qualify for the program will not be offered virtually anymore. And traveling to Haines does not fit in the budget of the organization performing the...

The Haines Sheldon Museum is getting a new director, and is being reaccredited. We spoke with new Director Brandon Wilks and past director CJ Jones.

Governor Dunleavy vetoes a bill to ban harmful ‘forever chemicals’ in firefighting foams and the Alaska education board bans trans athletes from girls’ high school sports.

A company has applied for a permit to conduct sonic drilling by the Porcupine Creek, 30 miles from Haines. The Alaska Department of Natural Resources is taking public comments about the project, but company representatives aren’t saying much about their long term...

There is big news on the Skagway waterfront. The municipality received a grant that will pay for most of the rockslide mitigation work above the railroad dock. And the town received all necessary permits to move forward with work on the ore dock.

Staffing at the Haines Chamber of Commerce is in flux. The current director is leaving, and a previous director is stepping in to train a potential new director.

It’s been a tough year for commercial salmon fishers. Three years of huge returns in Bristol Bay created a surplus of sockeye in the market. That pushed base prices to historic lows and economists are unsure of how long this glut will affect fishers’ paychecks. KMXT’s...

Starting up and maintaining a small business can be a steep learning curve. A Southeast regional nonprofit, Spruce Root, aims to help alleviate the growing pains with the return of its re-branded small business competition.