The mid-remodel chapel at the Episcopal Church’s 1-Mile property. Wednesday, June 17, 2026. (Will Steinfeld/Chilkat Valley News)

The Haines Borough has dropped its controversial effort to tax the 1 Mile Haines Highway Episcopal Church property. 

The assembly voted unanimously Tuesday to end a borough appeal in Superior Court seeking to overturn a Board of Equalization decision from May. In that decision, the citizen board ruled the church property be exempt from property tax under a…

Will Steinfeld is a documentary photographer and reporter in Southeast Alaska, formerly in New England.