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Major building projects top Sitka headlines in 2025
In 2025, Sitka saw growth and progress — but also questioned it.
Jan 116 min read
The Chillat Valley’s most-read stores of 2025
As the Chilkat Valley closes in on the end of 2025, here’s a look at some of the most widely read of the 904 stories the Chilkat Valley News published in print and online this year.
Jan 111 min read
Indigenous nation to get $7,250-per-person payments as a contentious mine advances upstream of Alaska
Eskay Creek project is one of several prospective mines near the British Columbia-Alaska border, where the government and industry have promised new investments.
Dec 24, 20256 min read
Wrangell takes step forward toward developing deepwater port
Borough and shipyard company will work together on 6-Mile development plan.
Dec 24, 20253 min read
The Chilkat Valley Index: Visitors, most popular book, magnet sales and other numbers for 2025
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.
Dec 23, 20253 min read
Search suspended for two missing Sitka men
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.
Dec 18, 20252 min read
State education commissioner comments on MEHS discontent
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.
Dec 17, 20256 min read
No resolution between gillnetters and managers at task force meeting
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.
Dec 12, 20257 min read
Decision near on 69.92% electricity rate hike challenged by Skagway
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.
Dec 11, 20254 min read
Columbia back at work until Dec. 17 to cover for Kennicott
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.
Dec 10, 20252 min read
Haines staff, divers respond after 81-foot tender sinks in small boat harbor
An 81-foot tender, the F/V Pavlof, sank Thursday morning while moored in the Haines Harbor.
Dec 5, 20252 min read
Mental health crisis occurring among students at MEHS
10% of students have withdrawn during school year following staffing reductions and leadership changes, parents and staff tell state education board.
Dec 4, 20258 min read
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