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The leader of a local effort to restore the Eldred Rock lighthouse said she was encouraged by a Saturday “survey” of the facility. About two...

Anneliese Stacy has done so much in 26 years at Haines Head Start, it’s difficult to imagine the program without her, director Karen Bryant told a...

What anyone finds aboard a sunken barge in Lutak Inlet, they can keep, Tom Paddock, Jr. said this week. “They can have it. I’m retired. I don’t...

Cheryl Stickler, principal of Haines Elementary School, has been named the 2013 National Distinguished Principal from Alaska.  The award is made...

The Haines Borough School Board on Tuesday approved its spending plan for the coming year, including $5.5 million in general fund spending plus $1 mil...

Construction of the Soboleff-McRae Veterans Village will start any day now, said Haines Assisted Living board president Jim Studley. A ceremonial...

Passengers whose ferry stories spanned the 50-year history the Alaska Marine Highway System shared them at a celebration on the Port Chilkoot Dock...

Five days of snowfall in the past week buried plans for the annual Haines Invitational track meet and caught motorists and plow drivers by surprise. T...

The Sheldon Museum has been awarded a “historic license” to restore, maintain and operate the Eldred Rock lighthouse as a historic project....

Construction work at the intersection of Beach Road and Front Street was halted early this week when oil-contaminated soil was discovered at a site...

Residents will get to review and comment on four “design concepts” of a bear-viewing infrastructure at Chilkoot River, including parking... Full story

Four Haines eighth-graders have scored high enough at the statewide History Day competition to qualify for national competition in Washington, D.C.... Full story

Haines High School seniors Jess Giddings and Patrick Henderson earned a command performance at the regional music festival in Juneau for their duet of... Full story

Discounted, early registration is open through June 8 for Lynn Canal Community Players’ annual Summer Youth Theater Conservatory. The three-week sum... Full story

Residents are invited to a May 5 party at Port Chilkoot Dock during a special docking of ferry Malaspina to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Al...

By Tom Morphet Lunch at the Haines School cafeteria last week included locally caught Dungeness crab legs. Seafood processor Hugh Rietze said the... Full story

By extending a $53,000 “courtesy” bonus to police chief Gary Lowe, the Haines Borough Assembly last week bankrupted arguments that the... Full story

Snow or no snow, the community clean-up is on. Bags for collecting rubbish and recyclables from public areas around town became available Monday at... Full story

Kyle Fossman of Haines has been named most valuable player of the University of Alaska-Anchorage Seawolves basketball team for the 2012-13 season.... Full story

Veterans affairs officials with the State of Alaska are expected at the ceremonial groundbreaking of the Soboleff-McRae Veterans’ Village starting... Full story

The Haines Borough Assembly on Tuesday will consider abolishing the board of fire service area #1, on the recommendation of member Jerry Lapp, who... Full story

Douglas Ellis, a pump house operator who worked at the former U.S. Army tank farm at Lutak and... Full story

Haines Borough School Board members debated budgeting strategies at a workshop Monday that at times became pointed. At issue is a projected $435,000... Full story

Two elementary teachers at the Haines School recently resigned. Jeanne Kitayama, who has been working part-time as early literacy coordinator for the... Full story

There was never a Chilkoot Lake Ice Classic, though Ted Gregg thought there should have been. Ted stood up at a Haines Chamber of Commerce meeting in... Full story