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One week after an avalanche claimed the lives of a heli-ski client and guide, key details of the March 13 accident are missing, including its precise...

The Haines Borough should reconsider the salt chlorination system at its swimming pool in the wake of the failure of a stainless steel tank there that...

The potential for shipping ore from the Yukon Territory through Haines is slim unless trucks can back-haul liquid natural gas from here on return...

“We the People,” a local group that grew out of last fall’s Occupy Wall Street protests, may soon be advocating for increased polling by the...

Haines miner Fred Meyer grew a field full of cabbages where a gas station stands today on Second...

Haines Borough Public Facilities Director Brian Lemcke will be leaving the position effective May 1. A local bar owner and former construction...

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

Charlie Everett Blood was born to Matt and Holly Blood on March 14. He weighed 8 pounds, 4 ounces. Grandmother Barb Blood had left Fairbanks after a...

The recent case of animal cruelty is the worst I ever heard. The saddest thing of all, it was by one of our own police officers, someone who was...

Nick Dodov died here recently in an avalanche while fulfilling a dream of heli-skiing in Alaska (with friends who were hosting him). We want to thank...

It does not take five months to discover a starving animal walking in its own feces! What does not make any sense to me is our chief of police Gary...

I would like to express my gratitude for the many kindnesses shown by my Hemlock Estates neighbors and friends throughout Haines, Mosquito Lake and...

We wish to thank you for the overwhelming support of the garden conference. With more than 50 people in attendance, including folks from Juneau, we...

Recently, Ron Jackson, on behalf of the Haines Borough Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee, posted planning maps in the Haines Borough Public...

Confused about all the planning going on at the Haines Borough? The assembly is working on a “strategic plan,” a brief, “to-do list” of...

After considerable discussion, the Haines Borough Assembly has dropped the idea of making its harbormaster a “peace officer.” That puts the local...

The Haines Borough has been asked to rescind a request for a state emergency declaration related to sloughing of the Mount Ripinsky hillside at Lutak...

Leona Santiago, who grew up in Front Street’s Raven House, recounted her experience of abuse from...

The Chilkat Valley is featured in four short public service announcements that will appear on public television in Alaska. “Non-Point Pollution,”...

Former Chilkoot Indian Association administrator Jim Carnahan said that he has settled his lawsuit against the Haines-based tribe. Carnahan said his...

Applications for the Haines Borough’s new permanent, full-time executive assistant to the borough manager are due 5 p.m. Monday, April 9. The...

The Haines Borough is planning improvements to the Haines School vocational education building, located at the corner of Old Haines Highway and Allen...

Contemporary dance troupe Thodos Dance Chicago will perform 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 3 at the Chilkat Center. Haines Arts Council President Tom Heywood...

Comments on a planned timber sale above 13 Mile Haines Highway are due March 31. Approximately 800,000 board feet will be cut on 40 acres on a bench...

The Haines Merchants and Klukwan Masters combined for a 4-0 record at the Gold Medal Basketball Tournament in Juneau this week and have advanced to to...