Legislature’s capital budget impasse could delay Haines Highway project

Haines residents look at a map of the Haines Highway at a project information meeting in 2015. (Jillian Rogers)A major Haines infrastructure project that is years in the making may have to wait a little longer.
Construction on the Haines Highway improvement project was expected to begin this fall. But the Alaska Legislature’s failure to agree on a capital budget could delay this and more than 20 other transportation projects.
Without a state budget, the Alaska Department of Transporta