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The Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium is SEARHC hosting a community baby shower and health fair on September 21 at the Chilkat Center for the Arts in Haines. (Courtesy/SEARHC)

Local News, Health

Bumps and babies: community baby shower open to all in Haines

by Rashah McChesney - Chilkat Valley News September 20, 2024September 22, 2024

A U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Sitka helicopter hovers over Sitka Sound during routine hoist training, Alaska, Apr. 25, 2023. Air Station Sitka aircrew regularly conduct rescue hoist training exercises with their Mh-60T Jayhawk helicopters to maintain proficiency with a variety of techniques used to recover persons from the water, a vessel, or land. (Photo courtesy U.S. Coast Guard Photo/Lt. Cmdr Wryan Webb)

News, Local News, Search and Rescue, Public Safety

Longtime Chilkat Valley resident dead after boat accident on the Chilkat River

by Rashah McChesney - Chilkat Valley News September 18, 2024September 18, 2024

News, Arts & Culture, Southeast News, Local News

Dance company hopes to bring a little something for everyone to Haines

by Rashah McChesney - Chilkat Valley News September 18, 2024September 18, 2024

Deena Bishop, commissioner of the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development, speaks at a news conference on March 15, 2024, with Gov. Mike Dunleavy. ( Claire Stremple/Alaska Beacon)

News, Education, State of Alaska, Government & Elections

Alaska pursues appeal of $17.5 million penalty over federal education funding equity dispute

by Claire Stremple - Alaska Beacon September 17, 2024September 17, 2024

A Chevron subsidiary currently owns a small share of the pipeline that connects the Kuparuk oil field, pictured here, to the trans-Alaska pipeline. Chevron is proposing to sell its stake to a new Texas oil and gas company, Pontem Alaska Midstream. (Courtesy/ConocoPhillips)

State of Alaska, Energy, Business & Commerce, Environment & Natural Resources, Government & Elections, News

In sign of North Slope evolution, privately owned Texas company targets Chevron’s Alaska assets

by Nathaniel Herz - Northern Journal September 17, 2024September 17, 2024

U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 11th Airborne Division, board a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III assigned to the 176th Wing, Alaska Air National Guard, ahead of a force projection operation to Shemya Island in the North Pacific Ocean, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Sept. 11, 2024. Conducting operations across the varied terrain of Alaska makes 11th Airborne Division soldiers experts in adjusting to ever-changing conditions, a key capability in a region like the Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Hunter Hites)

News, Government & Elections

In unusual move, U.S. Army sends missiles and airborne infantry to Alaska base near Russia

by James Brooks - Alaska Beacon September 17, 2024October 14, 2024

Southeast News, Government & Elections

U.S. Navy plans apologies to Southeast Alaska villages for century-old attacks

by Claire Stremple - Alaska Beacon September 17, 2024October 14, 2024

(Courtesy/Bartlett Regional Hospital) Rainforest Recover Center, a high-intensity residential substance abuse treatment facility, is closing next Tuesday, according to an announcement by Bartlett Regional Hospital.

News, Health, Southeast News

Juneau’s Rainforest Recovery Center closing in a week, to surprise of local leaders

by Mark Sabbatini - Juneau Empire September 17, 2024September 17, 2024

Prince of Wales Island in the Craig Ranger District, on November 27, 2006 in the Tongass National Forest. (Courtesy/Brian Barr, U.S. Forest Service)

Southeast News, Search and Rescue

Unusual whale mortality reported off POW

by Anna Laffrey - Daily Sitka Sentinel September 14, 2024October 13, 2024

Mountain goats are one of several species in Southeast Alaska tracked in a new subsistence hunting dashboard created by the U.S. Forest Service. (Courtesy/Carlos DeLaTorre, USDA Forest Service)

Environment & Natural Resources, News, Southeast News

Forest Service creates online dashboard for subsistence users

by Wrangell Sentinel Staff September 14, 2024September 14, 2024