Borough and shipyard company will work together on 6-Mile development plan.

About 7,456 people walked into the Haines Visitor Center this year, down from more than 10,600 in 2024. Tourism director Rebecca Hylton attributes that drop, in part, to a road closure during Second Avenue reconstruction and the lack of evening cruise-ship dockings.

The search for two men last seen Saturday night setting out in a skiff from Sitka for Camp Coogan Bay has been suspended, the Coast Guard announced Wednesday afternoon.

In a more than four-hour meeting of the Mt. Edgecumbe High School Advisory Board last Thursday, several school community members said they felt Superintendent David Langford was misleading in his response to concerns they expressed at a Dec. 3 meeting of the Alaska Board of Education about low student body morale and the rate of student disenrollment since the start of the fall term.

One bad year for Chilkoot salmon or serial mismanagement? That’s the distance between state fisheries managers and area gillnetters, who spoke last week at an annual post-season meeting about a decades-long controversy, and the future of the Lynn Canal’s wild-run salmon stocks.

Closing arguments were submitted this week in a rate case that could see residential electricity charges in the Upper Lynn Canal climb significantly next year.

The Alaska Marine Highway System has put the Columbia back to work through Dec. 17 to cover for the Kennicott, which is delayed leaving a Puget Sound shipyard.

An 81-foot tender, the F/V Pavlof, sank Thursday morning while moored in the Haines Harbor.

10% of students have withdrawn during school year following staffing reductions and leadership changes, parents and staff tell state education board.

There could soon be two new faces in the Division of Forestry Haines office, with the division promoting longtime area forester Greg Palmieri to a regionwide management position, and hoping to hire a second forester position in Haines, spokesperson Lorraine Henry said last week.

Workers have started taking apart a 360-foot-long paddlewheel cruise ship at the scrap metal recycling operation at 6-Mile to possibly reuse the hull as a new downtown floating dock for cruise ships.

Tidal Network, a Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska program that’s building up cell towers and broadband connectivity in Southeast communities, is holding a public outreach session at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the ANB Founders Hall.