On Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 2, Haines local Shori Heaton drove her Ford Sport Trac down to the Chilkoot River to go fishing, a daily ritual while salmon are running. Skittles, her yellow lab who was raised in the neighborhood, rode with her. The two staked out a spot about 20 feet into the middle of […]

Whitehorse resident Paul Hearn was cited for vandalism and failing to exercise due care after his camper-truck rolled off Chilkoot Lake Road on the evening of Oct. 9. Hearn said he swerved to avoid a bear that darted into the road around 9 p.m; there were no witnesses. Hearn bumped his head, and state biologist Carl Koch […]

Foot traffic coming across the Haines dock from cruise ships and the Haines-Skagway Fast Ferry next season is predicted to increase by 17.5 to 19 percent, according to the tentative 2019 cruise ship schedule from the Haines Borough Tourism Department and Haines-Skagway Fast Ferry’s projections. The total number of cruise and ferry tourists who headed to Haines […]

e race is on for the biggest catch in the second annual Silver Salmon Fishing Derby that began last Saturday and will continue through Oct. 29. The Haines Sportsman’s Association organized the event, which will give a $1,000 cash prize to the largest catch. Second and third place prizes are $500 and $350 respectively, but […]

Chilkoot sockeye escapement is approaching Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s upper escapement limit and commercial fishermen are fishing five days a week in Lutak Inlet. Nearly 84,000 sockeye passed the weir as of Wednesday, said Fish and Game area commercial fisheries biologist Wyatt Rhea-Fournier. In mid-July, low sockeye returns had Rhea-Fournier wondering where the fish were. […]