The Alaska Division of Water again approved Constantine Mining’s wastewater discharge plan for underground mineral exploration at the Palmer Project, an exploratory mining operation upriver from Haines and Klukwan. The division initially approved the plan last May but in response to concerns raised this summer by the Chilkat Indian Village of Klukwan (CIV), Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation […]

Faster and more affordable internet will come to the upper Chilkat Valley by as early as 2028, Alaska Power and Telephone (AP&T) announced at the end of last month. The company next year will begin construction on a fiber optic cable connecting Klukwan and upper valley residents to the faster service in town. The project is expected […]

More than three months after the state’s division of water approved plans for a revised wastewater discharge system at the Palmer Project, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) commissioner vacated the division’s decision and remanded it for further review. The remand, issued Sept. 6, followed a formal request from the Chilkat Indian Village of Klukwan (CIV) […]

CVN reporter Max Graham and KHNS reporter Brandon Wilks interviewed U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski when she visited Haines last week. Below is a transcript of the interview edited for clarity and length. During her visit, Murkowski attended the Alaska Outdoor Alliance Confluence, a conference about building a sustainable outdoor recreation industry across the state. She […]

For 50 years, about 2,000 Alaska Native military veterans have been without 160-acre land allotments that many other Alaska Natives obtained during the Vietnam War era. Soon that could change. More than 300,000 acres of land in the upper Lynn Canal could become available this month to Alaska Native Vietnam-era veterans through a federal program signed into […]