KHNS - Haines

There will be no trial as long as Steve Kroschel remains overseas, the judge said at a hearing last week.

The student council is calling on the Skagway School Board to make the attendance policy more inclusive by allowing students to take seven subsistence days per semester.

New research found that absent climate action, it’s extremely likely coastal Alaska’s wetlands will become too warm for salmon before the end of the century.

At local meetings, people have voiced confusion over the process – and about how they were supposed to weigh in on the issue without seeing the current draft.

A December storm buried Haines in 3-7 feet of fresh powder, marking one of the largest snow storms in 25 years.

Community members in Haines and Skagway are caring for each other in these extreme conditions with shovels and the Internet.

So far, public feedback has zeroed in on issues like ferry reliability and how a new terminal at Cascade Point fits in.

Writer and biologist Caroline Van Hemert recently finished sailing the Northwest Passage with her family. The trip is among the adventures that will inform her new memoir.

The library in the Native village of Klukwan, outside Haines, lost the bulk of its funding in the spring. That included a $150,000 grant, of which only $100,000 had been spent, plus another $10,000 grant. 

Local trappers harvested about 50 lynx in 2019 and 2020 combined. One researcher expects another peak could come in the next two or three years.