The state’s utility regulators struck down a 69.92% electricity rate increase proposed by the Upper Lynn Canal’s electric utility. Alaska Power Company, the region’s lone electricity supplier, first sought a rate increase from the Regulatory Commission of Alaska a year and a half ago to pay for a costly replacement of an underwater transmission cable […]
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Blotter: May 17 – May 23
Sunday, May 17A caller in the 100 Block of Third Ave reported a person locked their keys in their vehicle. Vehicle lock out information was relayed.Officers assisted another agency in the 300 Block of Haines Hwy.A caller in Klukwan reported a lost kayak on the Chilkat River. Officers obtained the item description and contact information.A […]
Chilkat Valley Newsletter Friday May 22
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 […]
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This Week in History: local projects and a traffic light for cyclists
10 years ago Assembly chooses Coast Guardsman as manager The Haines Borough Assembly bucked the staff’s choice for manager on Saturday, voting 4-2 to offer the job to Coast Guard veteran William Seward over Mark Karet, a planner and development director with more than two decades of municipal experience. Three groups – one comprised of […]
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Blotter: May 2 – May 16
Saturday, May 2 An officer on Main Street performed a traffic stop. Sunday, May 10 A caller in Haines reported a lost wallet. Item description and contact information was obtained. A caller in the 900 block of Main Street reported a speeding vehicle. Monday, May 11 A caller at Small Tracts Road and Tower Road […]
Chilkat Valley Newsletter Friday May 15
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 […]
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Same fuel, new price
Fuel prices jumped Monday, up to $5.74 per gallon for gasoline and $6.53 for diesel at Haines Industrial’s pumps. At Delta Western across the street, prices are now $5.79 for gasoline and $6.58 for diesel. Prices had held steady in Haines for weeks, even as global fuel prices skyrocketed following the United States’ war on […]