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

Alaska Power and Telephone has overbilled the Haines Borough School District $225,057 for electricity. The that caused the overbilling dates to the...

Haines Borough officials last week addressed the topic of safety in relation to management of heli-skiing, following concerns raised by the family of...

Local business owners and the Haines Chamber of Commerce are sponsoring events designed to entice Canadian fisherman to spend their Thanksgiving...

Resident Bob Adkins recounts flying stories comic and tragic in “Panhandle Pilot,” a self-published book now available in Haines. According to...

Haines Borough voters on Tuesday will fill two seats on the assembly and three seats on the school board, and revisit a question about exempting...

A Skagway truck driver this week said his plan to dig two, 500-foot-long trenches for mineral exploration on state land near Mount Riley amounts to a...

Meeting packets are a thing of the past for the Haines Borough Assembly. Instead of reams of paper, assembly members now each get an iPad, a...

Three candidates are running unopposed for the Haines Borough School Board. A fourth seat open on the board that has attracted no candidates will be...

Some Haines School Board members have pointed to the state’s financial disclosure requirements as reasons for apparent low interest in recent...

A combination of veterans and new recruits “toughed it out,” Saturday as the Haines High School boys’ cross-country team earned its first trip...

Monday, Sept. 24 A person reported being assaulted outside a bar; an officer responded but was unable to make contact with either party. A caller...

The Haines Borough’s plan to use local financial disclosure regulations -- instead of ones from the state -- is good on several points. The state...

Lollipops will return to the Haines branch of First National Bank of Alaska soon, branch manager Allen Turner said this week. Free suckers...

We offer this letter of support for state Rep. Bill Thomas, our effective state representative. Bill has served the communities he represents very...

Although the Haines Borough Assembly, school board and planning commission have every right to voice their opinion on the upcoming Proposition 1...

Since the 1990s, our people have seemed to forget who we are. Proud Tlingits, but today that isn’t so. Who are we? Much has gone on, but not for...

I want to thank all the emergency response people in Haines, the clinic staff who got pulled out of their homes to come and help me when my hip got...

Our property at Viking Cove has been in the news a bit lately. My husband and I bought the property three years ago. The property had been vacant for...

Bill Thomas is an extraordinary person who has worked hard to achieve his prominent position in the legislature. He has been a strong...

The CVN last week incorrectly listed the address for memorial donations in Jeremny Hanes’ name. The correct address is American Bald Eagle...