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The Haines Borough is awaiting approval from MARAD (The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration Division) to finalize its contract with an owner’s advisor – and settle on a design-builder – for the Lutak Dock reconstruction project. On Tuesday borough manager Annette Kreitzer met with MARAD representatives to try to speed up the process. She said she wanted to […]

An idea to build a bike path along Lutak Road will advance to the Haines Borough Assembly after the borough’s Tourism Advisory Board unanimously backed the suggestion last week. “There are a lot of users on that road, and I would like us to begin the discussion of how we can ask the state to widen (the road), put […]

The Haines Borough Assembly voted 4-2 not to create a public ad-hoc working group that would have been tasked with advising the assembly on the Lutak Dock renovation project. Assembly member Debra Schnabel said she thought the Lutak Dock Project Group Advisory Committee, as it would have been called, would be redundant because plans for the dock project already will go through the […]

Harbor committee violates Open Meetings Act, borough says A renovated Lutak Dock could serve as an export facility for minerals from the Yukon Territory, Yukon industry representatives told the Haines Borough Port and Harbor Advisory Committee at a March 24 meeting. Yukon mining companies are looking for an alternative to the Skagway ore terminal, which will be decommissioned in […]

Haines Borough staff estimate that the phases one through three of the Lutak Dock renovation project will cost about $26 million — approximately $6 million more than the borough secured through a federal grant in November. The grant alone likely is enough to cover most of the first two phases of the four-phase project, according to borough […]