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The state Department of Fish and Game will be watching the spring http://www.guidesinalaska.com/lifeforms.asp?lifeform=173&Brown-Bear harvest, as...

The Haines Borough Assembly on Tuesday voted 6-0 to renew a commercial permit for Southeast Alaska Backcountry Adventures (SEABA) following lengthy...

The Haines Borough has the highest per capita number of college graduates in Alaska, according to information published this week by The Chronicle of...

A half-dozen downtown business and property owners met Wednesday to reap "low-hanging fruit" identified in the Haines Borough’s...

I was saddened to read in last week’s edition of the Chilkat Valley News the story of the http://www.guidesinalaska.com/life...

Dennis Miles, you were the very best of us. Ever quick with a smile, a joke and always easy to laugh. Intelligent, focused and driven, but forever...

Once again the Haines High School Drama, Debate and Forensics team had a successful dinner fundraiser thanks to the generosity of our community. Food...

Sixty copies of the book "Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most" have circulated throughout Haines in recent weeks....

The 27th Alaska Legislature convened Jan. 18 with a new Haines face on the House floor. Haines High graduate Marley Horner is working as a...

Union Street resident Mike Denker said he’ll appeal a 5-1 decision by the Haines Borough Planning Commission last week that reaffirmed a...

Ice creepers always seemed to me designed for the elderly or feeble. Then I fell last week three times on a single trip home. Aging, they say, is...

Dennis Miles, a colorful and energetic businessman who made friends of customers at his Main Street furniture store, died Sunday of an apparent heart...

Numbers of gulls nearly tripled to 1,425 during the annual Audubon bird count, possibly due to a run of fish in Chilkat Inlet. "Several thousand...

Not unlike the tugboat they rode in on, the 2A state champion Skagway girls’ basketball team powered into Haines this week. The Panthers...

Elsa DeHart is the new public health nurse in Haines. DeHart, who worked the past three years as a public health nurse in Kodiak, replaces Monica Acto...

Monday, Jan. 24 A caller requested extra patrols of their Fourth Avenue apartment complex after an early-morning knock on their door. State road...

The Haines Dolphins swim team had more than 30 participants in the annual Winter Games last weekend at the Haines swimming pool. "We measure...