Southeast

Sitka voters overwhelmingly rejected a ballot measure that would have capped the number of cruise visitors beginning next year.

Skagway charges local sales tax on tours that start and finish in the borough. That excluded commission fees that cruise lines slap on top of tour prices in exchange for arranging the excursion until late last year, when Skagway tweaked its tax code to collect taxes on the full price that tourists pay – including the commission.

The first phase of the project includes extending the end of Glacier Highway, designing and preparing the area for development, and purchasing the materials for construction.

A new building in Haines is at the center of the Chilkoot Indian Association’s new effort to launch a tourism brand to bring in extra dollars – and to reduce their reliance on the federal government. 

State officials say the original funding has played a major role in fueling Alaska’s efforts to respond to landslide risk, which is intensifying with climate change.

Thousands of new books, many by Indigenous writers, are landing in the hands of kids across Southeast Alaska this month.