Juneau Independent

Agreement outlines plan for learning that reflects Indigenous knowledge, values and approaches to wellness through the Integrative Behavioral Health program.

Author of new essay collection to visit The Bookstore in Haines this week.

A little over a year and a half after it burned down, the Quick Shop is back: bigger, and better — many at the grand opening said on Friday.

The Bahamas, Saint Lucia, Cabo Verde, Casablanca, and now, maybe, Haines? The world’s largest cruise port operator wants to lease Haines’ Port Chilkoot dock and add it to a portfolio of global holdings.

The state ferry Columbia, the largest vessel in the fleet, has been delayed a second time coming back to work on the busy summer route between Bellingham, Washington, and Southeast Alaska.

Just before 9 p.m. Tuesday the Hames family and many of their friends gathered around a Sea Mart checkout aisle as store owners Roger and Mary Hames filled their cart to the brim with groceries, and paid with a charge slip, one last time.

Shortly before takeoff, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers put a man on the wrong plane.

Sunlight bounced off the new Mt. Edgecumbe Medical Center’s tinted glass exterior Thursday as hundreds of onlookers gathered outside the main entrance for the 1 p.m. ribbon cutting that opened the roughly $300 million hospital building.

An injured snowmachiner caught in an avalanche near the border was picked up by a Southeast Alaska Backcountry Adventure helicopter Wednesday evening and brought into Haines for medical treatment.

Per-passenger fee once used for Ocean Ranger program designated for electrical hookups in Juneau and Ketchikan in proposals by governor, Legislature

Haines’ king salmon sport fishery is once more open to anglers, even as state fish forecasters project a smaller run of Chilkat kings this year.

A trio of Juneau friends — who also are business partners — is looking to locate much of their work in Wrangell, putting together a new kind of system that utilities and industries use to remotely monitor and control their operations.

For years, a popular part of many cruises in Southeast Alaska has been sailing up Tracy Arm, a long, narrow fjord marked by steep mountains, glittering waterfalls and calving glaciers. But this season, major cruise lines are skipping it.

A decade of work on a hybrid electric boat propulsion project culminated Thursday as U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski shattered a bottle of champagne on the bow of the F/V Mirage, and saw it move under electric power along the dock at Sitka's Gary Paxton Industrial Park.

A petition to pause the 2026 seasonal sales tax increase gathered hundreds of signatures over the week that it was out at five local stores.

Tickets to ride the Alaska Marine Highway System will go up a little more than 2% effective May 1, the first fare increase since 2019.

Owner of Alpenglow Woodfired Pizza points to costs, landlord cites unpaid rent; alcohol license effort halted.

State says efforts to retrieve them will resume, likely in April.

State wildlife officials are raising the alarm in Juneau, which has seen three dead mountain goats and at least five reports of animals showing the disease since the beginning of winter.

The Wrangell borough assembly is moving to repeal a 60-year-old ordinance governing traveling merchants and door-to-door solicitors.

A group of skiers triggered a wind-slab avalanche Sunday just northwest of Mount McDonell in the Haines Pass, killing one person and injuring another, according to a preliminary report released by Avalanche Canada.

Atlin Royal Canadian Mounted Police received a Garmin SOS alert from a remote location near the Klehini River and Pleasant Camp, according to a news release. When they got the call, one person was reported unconscious and receiving CPR. Atlin Search and Rescue responded with a helicopter and flew out four people who were uninjured, and a fifth who had died.

At least one Canadian brewery, Yukon Brewing, is skipping this year’s Great Alaska Craft Beer and Home Brew Festival.

Two Haines assembly members say their use of Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence engine could be a model for future local government use; others have raised questions about errors in the document.

A group of Princeton University students visited Southeast Alaska last week to learn about the Tlingit clans and federally-recognized tribal governments working to repatriate precious cultural objects that have been taken from this region.

Beginning Friday, Alaska Seaplanes and Island Air Express will add a 6% surcharge to customer fares, the company announced Monday in a media release. That surcharge will not apply to freight customers.

Judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Alaska Forest Association, Alcan Timber and Viking Lumber to mandate more timber sales.

U.S. Forest Service leadership is in flux as the agency takes sweeping actions in managing the 17-million-acre Tongass National Forest, and making regulatory and administrative changes at all levels, Alaska-based officials reported this week.

Tlingit clan leaders L’eiwtú Éesh Herman Davis and Aanyáanáx Ray Wilson will receive honorary doctorates of laws from the University of Alaska Southeast during the May 3 spring commencement ceremony at UAS in Juneau.

After three years as a finalist, the Haines Borough Public Library has won the 2026 National Medal for Museum and Library Services, the nation’s highest honor for libraries.

Aaron Jacobs, senior hydrologist for the National Weather Service, makes a presentation Tuesday morning during the Southeast Alaska Landslide Information and Preparedness Partnership Conference at Harrigan Centennial Hall. (James Poulson / Daily Sitka Sentinel) By Andrea Burtzel Daily Sitka Sentinel Community members, scientists, tribal representatives and government officials from across Southeast Alaska met in Sitka Tuesday and Wednesday for an event focused on landslide pl

Regulations and policies governing hunting and fishing on federal lands will be on the table at the Southeast Alaska Subsistence Regional Advisory Council meeting in Juneau next week.

Haines newspaper reports package deliveries to town from Lower 48 range from three days for priority shipping to 18 days for ground transport from the Northeast.

It was windy and the temperature was in the single digits on Sunday as Nate Arrants stood on thin ice at Chilkoot Lake.

The Wrangell borough assembly on Feb. 24 unanimously approved a three-year lease with JAG Marine Group, giving the company time to decide if it will proceed with development of a shipyard at the 6-Mile Mill property.

In a five-hour regular meeting Thursday, the Mt. Edgecumbe High School Advisory Board voted to recommend and request that the state re-open hiring for the superintendent position at the state-run boarding school, allowing for "a thorough, rigorous and complete hiring process with input from Advisory Board members and stakeholders."

A three-tiered raven hat. A life-sized wooden beaver bowl. A blanket with designs representing important locations like Basket Bay. These are a few of the items displayed on stage during a Sealaska Heritage Institute lecture on the history of the Angoon Tlingit beaver crest on Wednesday, Feb. 18.

The Alaska Marine Highway System has been struggling with less than full staffing since 2019, with last month’s numbers showing the state ferries were short 59 workers to fill jobs as masters, mates, engineers, seaman and stewards.

Volunteers are working with Mt. Edgecumbe High School students, staff and administrators to enrich the quality of life at the school and support students’ mental health by way of Alaska Native art forms, traditional foods and community connections.

James Sturm, 45, of Sitka was arrested Thursday and charged with manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and felony assault in the deaths of two young men in a boat sinking near Sitka two years ago.

Over the past two months Minneapolis has seen a surge of federal immigration enforcement activity. The Chilkat Valley News spoke to Jasper and Skye Posey, and Sydney Mintz — three individuals with Chilkat Valley ties — about their recent experiences in Minneapolis. The Poseys, who grew up in Haines, now live in Minneapolis. Mintz, a rabbi and seasonal Haines resident, participated in clergy protests last month in Minneapolis.

Tuesday’s Elizabeth Peratrovich Day celebration brought a new first, at least in recent memory: the Haines and Klukwan schools joining together to celebrate the Alaska Native civil rights pioneer. But by and large, much of the celebration has become familiar, and a yearly tradition for the current generation of students.

A distressed bald eagle was taken to the Alaska Raptor Center for care on Valentine’s Day Saturday fter a good Samaritan spotted it hanging upside down in a tree then falling to the ground, on Jarvis Street.

The Departments of Agriculture and Interior announced Thursday they're extending the deadline for public comments on changes proposed to the Federal Subsistence Management Program. The deadline to submit public comments was changed from Feb. 13 to March 30, six weeks away.

Sitka Magistrate Judge Pamela Stahla-Kernin sentenced Pietr K. Dabaluz to ten days in jail and three years of probation Wednesday, on the Juneau man's guilty plea to misdemeanor assault charges arising from his actions during an Aug. 30, 2025, protest rally at the Sitka roundabout.

A bill pitched by Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration as a “paradigm shift” for state forest timber harvest will not be fast-tracked through the legislature as the governor has requested.

Legislature schedules hearings with state education leaders Wednesday about Sitka boarding school that has lost 25% of its students this year

About a hundred people crowded into the cramped Arrivals area of the Sitka airport terminal Saturday evening to welcome home three Kaagwaantaan clan hats held for more than 100 years in a Pennsylvania museum.

Four-ship company that offered weeklong voyages for 40 to 80 passengers halting voyages so parent company Allen Marine can focus on other operations.

Proposed changes to Haines State Forest management could roll back restrictions on logging across wide swaths of the Chilkat Valley. But some say economics — not just government regulation — is preventing large-scale logging returning to the area.