(File photo/Chilkat Valley News, Lex Treinen) APC’s diesel power plant in Haines. The plant is used when hydropower from Skagway is insufficient.

Haines customers could face another jump in their electricity bills if the state approves Goat Lake Hydroelectric’s ask to increase rates. 

The company, a subsidiary of Alaska Power & Telephone, asked to increase rates in part due to the costs of repairing a submarine transmission cable which was damaged in 2019 and cost…

Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the...