Chilkat Valley News - Serving Haines and Klukwan, Alaska since 1966

The parents of a 26-year-old man killed by an avalanche during an Alaska Heliskiing tour in March want the Haines Borough to discontinue the...

Haines Borough Manager Mark Earnest on Wednesday cited a busy schedule for not informing mayor Stephanie Scott or assembly members of a request for...

Primary students at Haines School may not know a lot, but they know what they like, and this week that included the school’s teriyaki sockeye...

Haines Borough Mayor Stephanie Scott has said she wants at least one municipal building heated with wood in her lifetime. The borough assembly supersi...

By Sara Callaghan Chapell Three new Haines School teachers have joined the staff in the 2012-2013 school year. Kristin White is the third grade...

­­­­ The Southeast Regional Health Consortium’s domestic violence program is presenting its “Healing Pole” in front of the Chilkat Valley Ar...

West Virginia singer, songwriter and guitarist John Lilly will perform “new songs with an old soul” 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Chilkat Center. The...

The Chilkat Valley Community Foundation is offering two programs at the library Friday, Sept. 21 by Juneau estate lawyer BethAnn Chapman.  A program...

The Haines boys finished close behind small-school competitors but the Glacier Bear girls had a tougher time of it during a wet and grueling...

Siting a hydroelectric powerhouse and transmission lines in the Alaska Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve would likely fall under a lease by the...

Friends and family members gathered at the middle school gymnasium Saturday to honor the memory of...

More than 30 Haines runners joined teams in the 30th annual Klondike International Road Relay over the weekend, an apparent peak in local...

It’s typical for newspapers to reveal government secrets. That’s the role of the press in a free society: To tell people what’s going on, not...

Monday, Sept. 10 A harassment charge was filed after a person reported receiving numerous phone calls from another person who’d previously been...

Emily Ann Edwards was born Monday, Sept. 10 to Lee and Ben Edwards in Olympia, Wash. Emily weighed 8 pounds, 15 ounces and measured 19 inches. Ben is...

I want to thank everybody for all the love, caring and prayers that were so graciously offered to me in a very difficult time. My sister did not...

In response to the Viking Cove suit article I would like to say that Michael Wald either has a problem with the truth or the facts or CVN twisted...

Our sincere thanks to the Richard Boyce family for sharing the bounty of fresh sockeye salmon from Richard’s celebration of life gathering with us....

There are those who cross our paths and touch our lives in different ways. There were several people that were instrumental in my life while I was the...

All the promises and letters can not convince me to vote for a 23-year-old. I compare putting Kreiss-Tomkins in the state House to asking my nine-...

There’s no doubt that Bill Thomas has brought home the bacon for Haines, and we all appreciate it. The question is whether there will be bacon to br...

I served on the Haines City Council with Dave Berry for approximately seven years. During those years I found Dave to be engaged, well informed on...

My sincere thank you to Diana Pyle for stepping in for me with the Senior Center exercise class. Her willingness to keep the class open two days a...

Over Labor Day weekend some kind person attached a life preserver to our boat’s bow rail as a bumper at Letnikof dock during windy conditions. We...

I’m writing on behalf of the Haines Glacier Bears cross-country team to express our deep gratitude toward the crew of the Fjordland. So there we...