A Haines woman was fined $300 and ordered to pay $280 restitution last week after 20 bags of household waste – including 400 pounds of food scraps – was dumped at a Lutak Road pullout in early June. Workers cleaning up the trash found items linking the trash to Angela M. Smith. “I wasn’t the one who […]

A visitor from Whitehorse, Y.T. who paid $780 to reclaim his trailer after a dispute with tow truck operator Paul Nelson is seeking redress through the Haines Borough. Alexander Gubergrits said he was deceived by Nelson and that he never would have agreed to a $450 bill Nelson presented him after pulling Gubergrits’ trailer from a […]

One week after an alleged sexual assault near Main Street, Haines Borough police chief Gary Lowe said local streets are safe, but residents shouldn’t be walking them alone at night. “You shouldn’t be alone anytime. It’s the golden rule around here. Don’t go hiking alone. Don’t go into bear country alone. Don’t go walking the streets at night alone,” […]

The Haines Borough Assembly voted 4-1 Tuesday to retain manager Mark Earnest, reactivating a contract that gives him the borough’s top job for another 13 months. Member Norm Smith voted in opposition. Assemblywoman Debra Schnabel, a candidate for the vacant manager’s position, had asked to be excused from the matter that was scheduled on the assembly meeting agenda as “interim borough […]

Two elderly Haines residents were targeted two weeks ago as part of a scam in which the caller pretended to be a grandson in trouble and desperately needing money.  Another reported scam last week involved a caller impersonating an attorney.   Barb Blackwell awoke at 9:30 on a Thursday morning to the ringing of her […]

Two brown bears shot and killed under defense of life and property provisions have state officials reiterating the importance of securing potential food sources. One of the two bears killed on private property in recent weeks has been identified as a two-and a-half-year-old male from a sow that frequents the Chilkoot River corridor. The other […]

Alaska Wildlife Trooper Ken VanSpronsen said this week that juvenile brown bears shot by residents at Beach Road and Cathedral View subdivision were allowable under defense of life and property provisions in state law. Both bears had ear tags. Trooper VanSpronsen replaces former wildlife trooper Ricky Merritt and started on the job Friday. The bear […]

Haines Borough Assembly members and municipal officers are in the process of scoring 18 borough manager applicants on a “decision matrix” aimed at winnowing down the field to an initial shortlist that may be decided as early as Tuesday. However, Mayor Stephanie Scott this week said she’s recommending the group take as long as necessary with its decision […]