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

I’ve owned the Chilkat Valley News for a little more than six years, and it’s time for a change. To that end, I’ve been in discussions with a...

By Kyle Clayton All seven seats on the Haines Borough Planning Commission will be up for election this October after the borough assembly voted...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced last week that it has selected Alaska as a state where it will work to identify areas...

More than 100 baseball players will parade down Main Street at 4 p.m. Friday, June 16, kicking off the Haines Little League Opening Day celebrations....

Lily Ramsey, 12, collaboratively authored two books with fellow students through a team-based storytelling program and is now working solo on a third...

A special election — asking voters whether the planning commission should be elected — will be June 6. In March, Tom Morphet and nine other...

A 1-year-old female lab named Bess is suffering from a life-threatening wound after being shot last week on Small Tract Road by an unknown person...

The Haines Borough Planning Commission voted 6-1 to approve a conditional use permit for a heliport at a 26 Mile airport amid opposition from...

Haines trollers and a tender operator involved in the Southeast Alaska troll fishery are expressing frustration after a federal judge issued an order...

Ferries out of Haines were canceled last Friday, May 5 through the weekend after a bearing housing snapped in the terminal’s ramp lift. “After...

Although a breakdown at the Haines Ferry Terminal canceled travel plans for hundreds of track and field athletes bound for a home meet last weekend,...

Fred Folletti, 63, was sentenced two years in prison and five years of supervised release in federal court on Thursday, April 27, after pleading...

The Southeast Alaska State Fair board announced Tuesday that it moved Juneau Drag’s start time from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The change came about a month...

The assembly’s Government Affairs and Services Committee unanimously recommended allocating $125,000 to the Haines Economic Development Corporation...

More than 50 bridge players from Haines, Juneau and Whitehorse played in an annual tournament at the American Bald Eagle Foundation this weekend. Hain...

Police arrested a 29-year-old Haines man at the Juneau International Airport Tuesday as he exited the aircraft, according to a press release issued...

In an effort to blunt the effects of a roughly 16% percent increase in property tax assessments this year due to the implementation of a new mass...

The Glacier Bears girls track team won third place at the Capital City Invitational track competition last weekend, with several athletes and teams...

Two big changes at the CVN are going into effect beginning in May. One is that we will resume printing with the Petersburg Pilot. The Juneau Empire,...