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Arts & Culture, Southeast News

Organizers say boost from 50th Alaska Folk Festival means this year’s is even bigger

by Mark Sabbatini - Juneau Independent April 6, 2026April 6, 2026

Traditional week of concerts, dances and workshops starting Monday also features neon, puppets and new documentary about festival’s historic half century

Marlene Johnson, longtime Tlingit leader and SHI board chair, dies at age 90

by Mark Sabbatini - Juneau Independent January 26, 2026January 26, 2026

The M/V Columbia heads north along the Inside Passage on May, 14, 2018. (Photo by Gillfoto/Wikimedia Commons)

Southeast News, Alaska Marine Highway System

Columbia back at work until Dec. 17 to cover for Kennicott

by Larry Persily - Wrangell Sentinel December 9, 2025December 9, 2025

A Haines Borough Police car on Main Street on May 21, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)

Police Blotter: Nov 24 – Nov 5

by Chilkat Valley News December 5, 2024December 5, 2024

A herring on a background of herring with the caption "Fake news from a real town"

Prime Minister Admits Canadian Thanksgiving A Hoax

by Joe Aultman-Moore November 27, 2024November 27, 2024

A Haines Borough Police car on Main Street on May 21, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)

Police Blotter: Oct 27 – Nov 2

by Chilkat Valley News November 8, 2024November 17, 2024

A Haines Borough Police car on Main Street on May 21, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)

Police Blotter: Oct 6 – Oct 12

by Chilkat Valley News October 17, 2024November 17, 2024

A Haines Borough Police car on Main Street on May 21, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)

Police Blotter: Sep 29 – Oct 5

by Chilkat Valley News October 11, 2024November 17, 2024

U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 11th Airborne Division, board a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III assigned to the 176th Wing, Alaska Air National Guard, ahead of a force projection operation to Shemya Island in the North Pacific Ocean, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Sept. 11, 2024. Conducting operations across the varied terrain of Alaska makes 11th Airborne Division soldiers experts in adjusting to ever-changing conditions, a key capability in a region like the Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Hunter Hites)

News, Government & Elections

In unusual move, U.S. Army sends missiles and airborne infantry to Alaska base near Russia

by James Brooks - Alaska Beacon September 17, 2024October 14, 2024

Blotter, Chilkat Weaving

Police Blotter: Aug 18-24

by Chilkat Valley News September 11, 2024November 17, 2024