Newscasts
The Haines Police Department is investigating a threatening graffiti scrawled in the Haines school bathroom. School administrators communicated the threat to parents, many of whom chose to keep their children at home. And, the brown bear hunting season in the upper Lynn canal has been closed. The bears responsible for opening car doors intown are still at large.
Klukwan residents recently celebrated the return of church property to the tribe, and officially welcomed Al Giddings as pastor for the village’s congregation.
The medicaid renewal process in Alaska undergoes some changes and the wait for food stamps in Alaska is improving, but applicants still face long delays.
A cabin outside of Haines burned down last week. The fire department was quickly on scene, but the building was destroyed, and the circumstances of the fire are suspicious. And, a brief conversation with State Trooper Colin Nemec about the recent bear activity in Haines.
Skagway election results were certified at the town’s last borough assembly meeting. We spoke with two of this election’s winners.
A rock slide on Dyea road had residents on alert. And, on Monday, organizations across Bethel put together a full day of celebrations for Indigenous People’s day at Bethel’s Consortium Library. As KYUK’s Sunni Bean reports, the community is proud to celebrate and reclaim who they are.
Klukwan residents led a ceremony to honor the Chilkat watershed and the life it sustains in the valley. They invited the broader community to participate, and a large number of people came.
More information on the deadly crash that cost Eugene Peltola’s life is released and a federal grant is helping to steer some southeast fishing boats away from diesel engines.
