News and notes from around the Chilkat Valley.
Posted inSports, Local News
Group brings back traditional beerfest run with guerilla 5k
A Beerfest tradition halted during COVID is revived.
Posted inThis Week in History
This Week in History: Traditional canoes, bear teeth necklace, and ANB building dedication
Archive news from 50, 25, and 10 years ago.
Posted inNews, Local News, Environment
Researchers to present latest on Haines/Skagway brown bear study
Beyond estimating how many bears there are in the region biologists have also been looking at where bears den and how they select those sites.
Posted inLocal News, Inside CVN
CVN welcomes new reporter for the summer
Francisco Martínezcuello served 20 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, doing tours in Iraq and Afghanistan before pivoting to journalism.
Posted inNews, Local News, Haines Borough, Tourism
Borough offers $5,000 for 26-Mile heliport settlement
The local citizens group that fought a controversial heliport calls the borough’s settlement offer “disrespectful.”
Posted inLocal News, Police, News
Public Safety building gets funding from state, but hurdles remain
Electrical capacity, failing walls, parking, and the potential for flooding in the event of a tsunami are all concerns for local police and fire personnel.
Posted inNews, Health, Southeast News
Juneau’s hospital looking at cutting or downsizing programs to stabilize finances
Six programs at Bartlett Regional Hospital — including substance abuse, autism, crisis stabilization and hospice care — are being targeted for cuts or elimination by leaders seeking to halt years of operating losses that are threatening to cause the hospital to run out of money during the next few years. Among the recommendations for closure […]
Posted inNews, Government & Elections
Free direct filing of federal taxes may be offered soon throughout the U.S.
Taxpayers across the United States could be guaranteed a free public option to file federal tax returns online as the Internal Revenue Service announced plans Thursday to make its Direct File program permanent. The pilot program offered in 12 states from March to April drew roughly 140,000 accepted returns this filing season and saved participants $5.6 million in tax […]
Posted inNews, Economy
Alaska Permanent Fund leaders vote to hire law firm to investigate leaker and themselves
The board in charge of Alaska’s $80 billion trust fund has voted to hire a third-party law firm to investigate who leaked internal emails that indicated board member Gabrielle Rubenstein may have engaged in self-dealing. The law firm, whose hiring was approved in a unanimous 6-0 vote on Thursday, will also review six years’ worth of […]