This week’s police blotter lists about 20 calls concerning bear activity in the Haines Borough. Deishu Drive, FAA Road, Mud Bay Road and Small Tracts Road continue to be bruin hot spots. The Haines School also has been a repeat destination for at least one of the animals. “There’s a small black bear hanging out […]

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 a dangerous confrontation with humans. “This particular incident was the one that could have ended very badly and it is to the credit of the bear that nobody was harmed,” […]

Veteran teacher Jeanne Kitayama is on special assignment for the Haines Borough School District. Her mission: To help ensure that all Haines students are reading at proficiency by the end of third grade. Kitayama’s part-time position, established on a trial basis this year, grew out of new research about developing brains and borrows from some recent, […]

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 are nearly the color of the graying logs and the names etched on them are difficult to read. But look closely and you’ll see evidence of a labor of […]

Bumper returns of pink and chum salmon, combined with the highest prices seen for those species in recent memory, are pumping up the paychecks of Lynn Canal gillnetters. By mid-August, gillnetters in the canal had netted salmon worth $6.3 million. That compares to a harvest value of $6.2 million for the entire 2010 season, which was above […]

Speakers at a town hall meeting Wednesday called for a community-wide crackdown on drunken driving and underage drinking. Resident Heather Lende said involved parents who try to combat underage drinking need the support and back-up of school officials and police. “I have found in my experience raising five (children) here that, invariably, my punishment as […]