Southeast

Haines formline artist James Hart will apprentice with several master Lingít and Haida artists beginning this summer.

The ships will tie up at an existing dock on Klawock Island owned by Klawock Heenya Corporation.

First place wins $10,000 cash, which is nailed to a piece of wood in Ketchikan. Second place gets a set of steak knives.

Hundreds of hours of Southeast Native Radio broadcasts are now archived on the internet and available for anyone to listen to.

The man reportedly was swimming in front of a docked cruise ship when he began to have trouble and sank.

Eleven residents and two staff members have been diagnosed with the disease.

The bird flu is the worst the country has seen since 2015 and has a high mortality rate for raptors.

The captain of the ship reported the incident after a cruise ship camera showed the woman going overboard at approximately 3 a.m. Tuesday as the ship sailed from Juneau to Skagway.

With little public data about COVID-19 cases on ships, some community members in Haines worry that the ships could also bring a surge in coronavirus cases.

Alaska reported its first case of the highly pathogenic avian influenza in early May, furthering the spread of what is now an international bird flu outbreak.