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Haines Borough Manager Mark Earnest on Tuesday proposed using increased property taxes, a variety of cuts and reserves to fill a $579,000 hole in the...

Haines Borough sales tax revenues increased 1 percent in 2011 compared to 2010, with retail showing the strongest gains and restaurants and bars...

The town’s busiest intersections are about to get busier. Main Street from Front Street to Allen Road will be paved this summer, as will Second...

Haines police officer Cassandra McEwen was sentenced to a 60-day suspended jail sentence and to not own, possess or have custody of horses for five ye...

A State Department proposal to eliminate seafood processing from a visa program that brings thousands of foreign students to Alaska may not have a...

Zumba studio waltzes onto Main A new dance studio on Main Street offers a range of Zumba classes. Zumba is a Latin-inspired dance fitness program...

Lightning-fast banjo and guitar solos, reggae and classic, country swing will be heard on the main stage at the 44th annual Southeast Alaska State...

Four years after the Haines Borough Assembly agreed to keep the Haines primary school building to see how land there would fit into a downtown plan,...

Community Clean-up is scheduled for May 5th through May 14th. The Haines Chamber of Commerce is organizing a community Cinco de Mayo Festival to kick...

The Haines Arts Council was so pleased to see a full house at the Chilkat Center for a beautiful and inspiring performance by Thodos Dance Chicago....

Thank you to everyone who solicited pledges, pledged, donated, volunteered, and participated in the annual Bowl for Kids’ Sake event. I believe...

The Haines Animal Rescue Kennel would like to thank all those who attended our annual member meeting and stir-fry dinner. The night was a great...

Each year, the second full week of April is dedicated to the men and women who serve as public safety tele-communicators. Communications officers are...

Friends at the Pioneers of Alaska’s Sunday meeting sang “Happy Birthday” to Layton A. Bennett in anticipation of his 93rd birthday Thursday,...

Eric Holle entertains library patrons at the Haines Public Library during Music In the Stacks...

Members of the Haines Borough’s government affairs and services committee last week debated the role of special elections in filling assembly...

Sunday, April 8 A caller reported unsupervised, small children at the skate park. A parent picked up the children, and police referred the incident... Full story

A minus four-foot tide Sunday morning sent residents to local beaches for subsistence harvests....

Weather forecast resources http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=zmw:99827.1.99999&bannertypeclick=wu_clean2day... Full story

Church services for Haines: (directory of advertisers) Haines Baptist Sixth and Main Phone: 907-314-0387 Pastor Royce L. McCoy | Sunday: 10:30 a.m. Su... Full story