What does Beerfest look like in numbers? Start with $5,000 worth of dinner ingredients, 1009 patrons and one traffic stop. Behind the crowds were chefs working, 100 hours weeks, bakers scrambling to keep up with demand, volunteers managing sprawling campsites, restrooms and garbage collection. The figures offer a glimpse into the logistics required to pull […]

Just weeks after the Haines Borough Assembly took a major vote on the future of the Lutak Dock project, new questions are emerging about whether the design they chose can actually meet the project’s tight federal deadlines. The dispute centers on permitting. Borough engineers previously told officials that the dock design they chose would have […]

A Haines graduate is helping test what could become a new direction for Alaska’s fishing fleet: hybrid-electric commercial boats. Chandler Kemp, now an engineering professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, helped design a hybrid propulsion system for the F/V Mirage, a Sitka longliner believed to be the first commercial fishing vessel in the country […]

In today’s newsletter: — AP&T workers on Prince of Wales Island watched the Upper Lynn Canal unionization attempt and are now trying their own. — After a year without new drilling, the Palmer Project announced a $13.7 million budget for 2026 operations. We have more on what that looks like. — The Bahamas, Saint Lucia, […]