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Projects in the Chilkat Valley would receive $18.9 million in state funding from bills approved in the past week by the Alaska Legislature, including...

About 30,000 cruise ship passengers are expected to arrive in Haines this summer on 25 dockings, tourism director Tanya Carlson said last week. Her...

The Haines Borough School District is planning to eliminate one full-time teaching position and use reserves to bridge a projected deficit in the...

The Haines Elks Lodge lost its charter Saturday, ending 30 years of service to the Chilkat Valley. A meeting of members held Friday and Saturday...

Cornell University senior Chandler Kemp was recently selected as a Merrill Presidential Scholar, an...

Residents got a look at the first round of the state’s thinking about improvements along the Chilkoot River corridor at a meeting Tuesday with...

Haines state trooper Josh Bentz has forwarded to the FAA a complaint that a private pilot swooped low over the highway near 33 Mile. According to a...

Alaskans for Litter Prevention and Recycling this month selected Haines Friends of Recycling for a statewide award. The Anchorage-based ALPAR will...

The Haines High School boys’ and girls’ track and field teams are preparing for a four-week stretch of meets that starts next weekend in Juneau....

The annual “Birdathon,” a fundraiser for the Ts’ats’ee Bird Observatory, runs April 29 to May 5. Upper Lynn Canal birders are to observe and i...

Former Chilkat Valley News staffer Margaret Friedenauer started as news and public affairs director...

There’s often not a line, but you’ll still need a number for service at the Haines DMV office....

Tim Walsh, a good-natured bartender and golf enthusiast who moved to Haines in 2010, died at his McP...

Kathleen “Dixie” Young, who came west with Dust Bowl-era refugees and enjoyed roaming backroads...

A public forum debate and discussion at the Haines School last month addressing whether income disparity is threatening the American Dream might lead...

Add another plan to borough planning efforts. In addition to work on a comprehensive plan and a strategic plan, the Haines Borough is embarking on a...

The Haines Animal Rescue Kennel is organizing “Pooper Troopers” to participate in an upcoming community cleanup. HARK executive director Steve...

The Haines Borough Assembly last week approved $328,399 for replacement of the Haines High School gym floor. North Pacific Erectors of Juneau submitte...

By Sara Callaghan Chapell Ike Lorentz spent five days on the guided missile frigate USS Ingraham with his son, Navy seaman Paul Lorentz. The ship was...

Monday, April 16 An officer warned a motorist for speeding. Sunday, April 15 A caller reported a domestic dispute at a Mosquito Lake residence. A...

Closure of the Elks Lodge is a big loss for our community, but perhaps inevitable. Elks membership was in decline and there didn’t seem to be...

I was extremely interested about the outcome of the McEwen case, but disappointed that the 60-day jail sentence was suspended. I just got a sticker...

Thank you, Miles Furniture and Alaska Power and Telephone, for sponsoring Sonny Myers, Scott Bradford, Russ Bell and Brian Wright in the Venturer...

I would like to thank everyone who turned out to help with the Haines Animal Rescue Kennel membership event. Thanks to Mario Benassi for the great...

On behalf of the American Legion, we would like to thank all those who donated their time, money and food items to our Vietnam Memorial Wall...