Assembly member Cheryl Stickler speaks during the April 22, 2025 Assembly Meeting. (Will Steinfeld/Chilkat Valley News)

Planning commissioners clashed with borough assembly representatives at last week’s planning commission meeting over the assembly’s recent settlement deal with Southeast Roadbuilders.

The settlement deal ended a years-long appeals process with Southeast Roadbuilders (SERB) by granting a conditional use permit that had first been approved by a planning commission in 2023, then denied by a different iteration of the…

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