AT&T’s cell tower at the top of Mount Ripinsky. (Lex Treinen/Chilkat Valley News)

A company is calling the borough’s handling of its new cell tower plans illegal after the company’s permit was brought to the planning commission this week. 

The permit in question is for a new tower on Sawmill Road on a private parcel zoned for industrial use. According to borough code, cell towers are part of the standard, allowed uses for industrial land…

Will Steinfeld is a documentary photographer and reporter in Southeast Alaska, formerly in New England.