The Haines Borough might again strike reality TV gold this fall. Christo Doyle, a Discovery Channel executive producer for “Gold Rush: Alaska,” said a Discovery team is set to return to Haines this spring in anticipation of the show’s second season, with new episodes tentatively scheduled to air in the fall. “The crew plans to be up […]

The Coliseum Theater building, a Main Street landmark since 1918, is for sale by Gross Alaska, Inc., the Juneau-based family business that has owned it since 1930. Krishna Smith, a computer programmer who moved to Haines a year ago and is interested in re-opening the building as a theater, is investigating buying it. “If we […]

Haines Borough manager Mark Earnest said he would turn to the assembly or possibly the planning commission for direction on the question of permitting for food stands operating in modified trailers. Three businesses selling food under temporary use permits are seeking permanent status. Their current permits require either that they can be moved immediately, or that they operate […]

The Haines Borough is considering exponential rate increases for using Lutak Dock, under a proposed ordinance set for a second public hearing Tuesday. “These rates, in general, haven’t been changed in many years,” said borough manager Mark Earnest. “They’ve just been low, and they’ve been low for a long time.” The Haines Borough Assembly on Feb. 22 advanced the ordinance to a […]

Planners who wrote local laws restricting trailers and mobile homes to designated “parks” didn’t anticipate they would be used as retail businesses in the downtown core, according to Dave Nanney, a former City of Haines administrator who helped launch the planning commission and served several terms on it over the course of two decades, including […]

The Haines Borough budget for the coming year will amount to “putting a size 9 foot into a size 8½ shoe,” borough manager Mark Earnest told a joint meeting of the assembly and school board Tuesday. “You won’t get gangrene, but it won’t be comfortable,” Earnest said. “It’s going to be a challenge, but we can get through.” The budget, drawn […]

Should records be kept of meetings of Haines Borough Assembly subcommittees, borough boards and other advisory groups to the local government? Bill Kurz, who makes videos of local government meetings for broadcast on local cable TV, thinks so. Kurz said too much can get lost in translation if accurate records aren’t kept. He points to a meeting […]