Juneau Independent

Wrangell's newest wireless internet and cell tower has been set in place and, when it is operational, is intended to improve sketchy service for some customers around 3- and 4-Mile.

With less than a month before the first day of school, up to 30 students who normally rely on a bus will have to find other ways to get to and from the Haines School. 

One side pulls while the other side is told to hold tension in the line. Men grunt and struggle as they push against the large pole while men and women pull on the lines, all working together to maintain the balance needed to raise the large Kadashan pole at Totem Park on Saturday.

The U.S. Forest Service has received approval to resume aviation operations in Southeast Alaska after a flight moratorium that halted much of the forest management work across the region’s remote federal lands.

The Chilkat Valley’s state legislative delegation held three local, question-and-answer sessions recently.  The visit came during an eventful time in the state capital, just after Gov. Mike Dunleavy last week called a surprise legislative session, asking legislative allies to help him avoid overrides of his controversial veto choices this spring. 

A plane built in the 1960s has flown away with the interests of several Haines residents, even after a debilitating crash left it grounded. 

Fish and Game commissioner says animals are evidence in a potential criminal case against owner Steve Kroschel, and as such may have to be returned to him.

Vigor Alaska laid off about 40 union-represented Ketchikan Shipyard workers last Monday and Tuesday, according to representatives of Sheet Metal Workers Local Union 23.

For the first time in 38 years, the Wrangell Native community will raise new totem poles in town, with four days of events planned for Thursday through Sunday, July 17-20.

Clean-up of so-called forever chemicals at Tanani Point remains unfunded and unscheduled, said U.S. Army representatives during a meeting last Monday evening with Haines residents.

The Alaska Board of Game passed a new statewide requirement to quiz mountain goat hunters, which went into effect on July 1. The requirement has been in effect in Southeast since 2023.

A few hundred spectators crowded into Chilkoot Lake State Recreation Site on the Fourth of July to watch a rafting race down the Chilkoot River that has become a staple of the community’s celebration of the holiday. But some are now facing tickets and fines from state parks staff who said the event was dangerously crowded and left parts of the river full of trash.