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In a joint meeting last week, the Haines Borough’s Ports and Harbors Advisory Committee and Tourism Advisory Board recommended tabling until March...

A drop in highway traffic and unusually cool weather dampened the early visitor season in Haines, but numbers recovered a bit later, according to...

The annual fall migration of fishermen to Haines is generating complaints about roadside trash and human waste. Natasha Coleman, who lives near 25...

Alaska poet John Haines said the land gets into everything. Amy Gulick’s message is that in Southeast Alaska, salmon get into everything and most...

Led by what coach Dennis Durr called a “dominating performance” by senior Jimmy Thomsen, the Haines Glacier Bear wrestling team opened its season...

Area hunters took 22 moose, including three illegal kills, during the recent, three-week susbsistence hunt. The harvest included 11 bulls with spiked...

In 1988, an ailing Steve Homer of Haines posed for a Chilkat Valley News photographer aboard the ferry Malaspina, above a sign announcing the 25th...

The Southeast Honor Music Festival for choir and concert band will be held in Haines this year beginning Oct. 21. It culminates with a concert 7 p.m....

Singer-songwriter Chuck Pyle, billed as “the Zen Cowboy,” performs 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 21 at the Chilkat Center. Pyle’s songs have been...

Howsers Supermarket won Business of the Year and Alaska Mountain Guides received the Community Service Award at Saturday’s Haines Chamber of...

A memorial service will be held 1 p.m. Saturday at Covenant Life Center Tabernacle for Dick...

Resident Norm Smith recalled a Boy Scout campout in the early 1960s, when a Scout leader took him and others out to Chilkoot Lake in an old school...

Two Haines women said they felt threatened by a motorist who came at them early Sunday morning at the Costco parking lot in Juneau. To make a ferry co...

By Pam Randles Noble Anderson saw four sea otters swimming in Portage Cove. Usually we see river otters in our waters foraging for starry flounder...

Monday, Oct. 15 A caller reported receiving a harassing phone call from out of state. Police investigated. The caller later reported the issue was...

Tom Heywood was in San Francisco when son Kee Heywood shot a weekend of footage for his first film, entitled “Phantom-Limbed.” The scenes were fil...

Fall fishing in Haines is a long tradition and growing attraction. We can make it just right by addressing basic needs. Garbage cans and restrooms...

Wow! I think I have heard it all. The idea that salmon and forests are interdependent is somehow controversial seems beyond bizarre. Couple this with...

The Chilkoot Indian Association (CIA) is the federally recognized sovereign Indian tribe for Haines, Alaska. The tribe received a legislative grant...

On the beach issue, some folks simply pulling their boats and trailers across private property is way out of line. I know I don’t need the fun and...

An enormous thank you to Chip Lende and Lutak Lumber for the generous donation of materials for the new Community Garden toolshed. We are so...

All too frequently we read about someone who has passed on from an accident, old age, or just by being in the wrong place. How about those whose lives...

I believe Mrs. Andersen’s claims of being “vandalized six times” and littering and rude behavior are really just make-believe. And nobody was ha...

I would like to thank the American Legion for the exceptional memorial and graveside services they held for Murph (Pat Murphy). It was a beautiful...

The fifth-grade class would like to thank the Haines Sportsman’s Association for sponsoring the raffle for a cord of firewood.  An extra-special...