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Barbra Lica brings genre-less ‘dweeb’ vibes to main stage
Singer and songwriter Barbra Lica isn’t the music star you might imagine from an award-winning Torontonian. While many entertainers cultivate a cool air for their stagecraft, Lica leans into…
Duly Noted: Bike relay sign ups, mascot contest and Peru meet-up
The Haines Glacier Bears were in the running for SBLive Sports’ 2024 NCAA tournament-style best high school mascot match-up. The Glacier Bears (No. 16-seeded) faced off against the Hollister…
No reported injuries after Tuesday morning Haines Highway accident
Widespread fog is at least partially to blame for a single-vehicle accident near 20 mile of Haines Highway Tuesday morning. Haines Police Sergeant Josh Dryden said no one was…
Glacier Bears basketball season ends at state with two tough losses
The Glacier Bears girls team knew that they faced a tough opponent going into their opening game of the state tournament against the Tikigaq Harpoonerettes. What they experienced was…
Southeast
Gold Medal Tournament opens with all harboring hopes for week ahead
Participants say it’s hard to tell much from a decisive victory — or defeat — in the opening game of the Gold Medal Basketball Tournament since, in some…
75th Gold Medal Basketball Tournament tipped off Sunday
If you thought March Madness could not get any crazier you had better don your white coats and tie those sleeves tightly behind your back because the 2024…
Statewide
Alaska House votes to give police warrantless emergency access to cellphone location data
Under legislation passed Thursday by the Alaska House of Representatives, police searching for a lost hiker could obtain cell phone and satellite phone location data without a warrant.…
With deadline looming, more than half of Alaska’s relief funds for homeless students are unspent
There are more than 3,000 students known to be experiencing homelessness in Alaska, and the number has grown over the last five years. It is also likely to be a…
By one vote, Legislature fails to override Dunleavy’s education veto
Members of the Alaska House and Senate failed by a single vote on Monday to override Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of Senate Bill 140, a multipart education bill…
GoFundMe Has Become a Health Care Utility
GoFundMe started as a crowdfunding site for underwriting “ideas and dreams,” and, as GoFundMe’s co-founders, Andrew Ballester and Brad Damphousse, once put it, “for life’s important moments.” In…
New salmon study adds to evidence that pink salmon could be crowding out sockeye
A new analysis of nearly 25,000 fish scales offers more evidence that the millions of pink salmon churned out by Alaska fish hatcheries could be harming wild sockeye…
Alaska Supreme Court decides key question: Who is an Alaskan?
An Alaskan is someone physically present in the state who intends to remain permanently and make a home here, the Alaska Supreme Court concluded in a split opinion published…
Duly noted
Duly Noted: Bike relay sign ups, mascot contest and Peru meet-up
The Haines Glacier Bears were in the running for SBLive Sports’ 2024 NCAA tournament-style best high school mascot match-up. The…
Duly Noted: Rayna born, basketball returns from Petersburg, middle school wrestlers shine
Macky Cassidy, Jake Bell and Rune Lou Bell welcomed Rayna Lynn Bell into their lives at 5:42 a.m. on Feb.…
Duly Noted: Valentine’s tea, new Bald Eagle Foundation director
The Haines Presbyterian Church hosted a Valentine’s Tea on Feb. 10. Visitors drank from fine china and antique teacups and…
Duly noted: Artist grant, vet clinic
Lingít artist and president of the Chilkoot Indian Association James Hart has been awarded a grant to visit the Anchorage…