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SEABA’s heliport permit appeal nixed
The Haines Borough Assembly voted 5-1 on Tuesday to uphold a planning commission decision denying Southeast Alaska Backcountry Adventures a permit to...
Mosquito Lake School may struggle to stay open in fall
Mosquito Lake School faces the prospect of dropping below required enrollment this fall, forcing the school to close the doors on the students and...
Fire department nabs solid insurance rating
The Haines Fire Department last month received its Public Protection Classification, a rating that in two categories remained the same or slightly...
Local parents, educators rally behind funding bill
The Haines Borough School Board, parents and supporters are spreading the word far and wide - in letters, on Facebook and on blogs - that school...
Study: Chilkoot Watershed a diverse habitat
A recently completed comprehensive fish study of the Chilkoot watershed found a diverse and healthy habitat for several species of fish, including...
Pup dogged by cliff, gets helping hand
Despite his name and breed, Klondike, a Bernese Mountain Dog, found himself in a precarious...
Slump movement slows, monitoring continues
Due to the slowing movement of the "slump" on Oceanview Drive and Lutak Road, the Haines Borough is closing the command center set up in January to...
Slump gets disaster designation
The Haines Borough Assembly on Feb. 3 held a special meeting to declare a disaster and request...
ARCS needs TLC from community
Leigh Horner doesn’t have cable TV. If she and her family watch any television, they watch the random mix of programming on the Alaska Rural...
Fourth-grader eclipses field in spelling bee, heads to state
Jayden Rettinger sure didn’t act nervous on Tuesday during his first spelling bee. It only took...
School board, assembly talk budget hopes
The Haines Borough Assembly and Haines Borough School Board held a joint meeting Tuesday night and together emphasized what was of no surprise to...
Slump continues slipping, shifting
Borough and state engineers this week finished installing sophisticated monitoring equipment near...
Ground slump still vexing
Sub-surface movement continues in the Oceanview Drive and Lutak Road area, prompting the Haines Borough late last week to implement its emergency...
Starving cub put down in Klukwan
A malnourished brown bear cub seen around Klukwan recently was put down by wildlife troopers this...
Vandals are likely culprits in destruction of weather station
As if the snow gauges and meteorological equipment didn’t have enough to deal with this winter, the weather station at the Haines School suffered a...
Ground shift threatens roads, homes
In what Haines Borough officials are calling “significant ground failure” cracks and heaves...
Cause of lodge fire hard to pinpoint
While Bruce Bauer is hell-bent on making his Mosquito Lake lodge rise from the ashes, the cause of the fire that destroyed most of the structure may...
KHNS reports on income, programming
Public radio station KHNS saw an increase in income in the last fiscal year and topped it off with a record-breaking membership drive, staffers told...
Foreign visitors buoy tour season
Visitation by Canadian and overseas visitors helped stanch losses in tourism during the summer season, including a 12 percent drop in cruise ship...
HHS alum now Google engineer
Teachers, tinkering and tenacity - that’s how Michael Hagen came to work for one of the world’s biggest and far-reaching companies....
From Mosquito Lake to West Point to the deserts of Kuwait; Kurz learned work ethic from family, teachers
While attending fifth grade at Haines Elementary in 1978, Karl Kurz checked out a book that described the adventures of a West Point graduate....
Should high school be more difficult? Board mulls graduation requirements
Should Haines High School graduation requirements be changed or stiffened? The Haines Borough School Board took up that question Tuesday, at the...
Garden still bountiful after 10 years
Nailed to the old log cabin at the Southeast Alaska State Fairgrounds are some metal plaques, rusted and faded with age and weather. The small plaques...
Close bear encounter at Chilkoot highlights dangers;
A mix of bear watchers, photographers and other bruins on the Chilkoot River caused a stressful situation for one mother bear that nearly resulted in...
Legion collages spotlight veterans
Most folks would be surprised at how many of their fellow locals have a background of military service. So far, the American Legion has identified...
