An Alaska Power & Telephone worker inspects an exhaust stack after an explosion on March 27, 2025, at its power plant in downtown Haines. (Will Steinfeld/Chilkat Valley News)

After a unionization effort in the Upper Lynn Canal collapsed last year, a new group of Alaska Power and Telephone employees on Prince of Wales Island has voted to unionize. 

It’s the third time in just over a decade that workers at the Southeast Alaska utility have…

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...