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Shortly after arriving in La Paz, Bolivia, Lenore “Nori” Nash, accompanied her boss to a heavy metal festival in one of the city’s more... Full story

As a child, Carla Earnest never imagined she would leave the Philippines. She grew up in an idyllic rural agricultural setting on the island of...

Juge Gregg, an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice and professor of law at Stanford University, has been photographed in public places...

After seven months of wrangling the logistics, permitting and compliance of a big construction project in Nome and Unalakleet, Jade Smith Scheele and...

In 2006, a certified public accountant brought in to review the books of the Southeast Alaska State Fair determined the organization was bankrupt. A f...

Recent information from a study of two collared, female bears on the Chilkoot River suggests the animals can outgrow behaviors like stealing fish...

The Haines Borough ranks among the wealthiest communities on the West Coast in per-capita income, according to a federal compilation included in the...

Her Honor raises flowers – and no genteel, ordered garden, either. Giant swaying bushels of peonies, froths of bleeding hearts and tangles of...

For a smart guy, Luke Hedrick spends a lot of time thinking about the price of a can of soda. But...

It took a couple of casts for Corrie Nash, the youngest child in a Haines fishing family, to hook a...

The younger siblings agree: the hardest part about being on a team with your older sister, or...

Archaeologist Nancy “Anastasia” Wiley tells her younger students not to agonize over their...

Ask Ray Willard how he feels about his job flying 747 cargo jets around the world and he has a quick answer: "Sure beats working."...

Bright-eyed, slender and with glowing skin, Dr. Robyn Barlow is the picture of health. A new acquaintance might not guess that for more than 20 years...

During her youth in Haines, three things attracted Ada County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Tessie Buttram to a career in law. First was an...

Freshman year of high school was rough for Rich Cooper. It was 1980 and his family was living in Olympia, Wash. "I had bad grades. I...

The film bug bit Kee Heywood early. "At age 13," Heywood recalls, "I got hold of the family camcorder and started fooling around with...

Former Haines resident Deltina Hay recently signed a five-book deal with Linden Publishing. Following the success of her first book, "The Social...

It started out as a joke around his brother’s office, the suggestion that golfing professional David Canipe go to Haines to work at the brand...

Dr. Greg Higgins first saw Eliza begging on a street corner. With a few inquiries he learned she was deaf and had been abandoned by family. "I...

A recent conversation at Milky Way Farm started with a tally of loss. Three years ago, Smoky was ill for the first time in her life; three days later...

Artist and gallery owner Debi Knight Kennedy believes in intuition. Her first connection to Haines came in 1980, when a friend from Juneau took out a...

Asked how she managed giving birth to twins twice, state Emblem Club president Michelle Stigen laughed and said, "It was easier the second...

Bob Deck left http://www.guidesinalaska.com/city.asp?place=4656&city=HainesAK in 1976 and didn’t come back until 2004. The town looked the...

She took first prize in a knife- throwing contest, shoots a black-powder rifle, and is fairly handy with a javelin, too. Despite this, Cheryl...