A plan to upgrade the early warning and alert systems in Haines and Skagway is on hold after a federal grant program issued a stop work order to KHNS, which was in the middle of ordering equipment for the upgrades. 

The now-defunct Next Generation Early Warning System grant program was designed to help public television and radio stations replace and upgrade infrastructure around alert and warning systems. 

It was administered by the Corporation for Public…

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...