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)

The state’s utility regulators struck down a 69.92% electricity rate increase proposed by the Upper Lynn Canal’s electric utility.

Alaska Power Company, the region’s lone electricity supplier, first sought a rate increasefrom the Regulatory Commission of Alaska a year and a half ago to pay for…

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