The Haines Borough Assembly on Tuesday adopted a $12.9 million operating budget with amendments to keep the pool open for 11 months and pay for a professional curator at the Haines Sheldon Museum, among other increases. At the final budget hearing, the assembly voted unanimously to spend an extra $35,434 on the pool and $60,000 on the […]

Children will find plenty of entertainment this summer from camps, sports leagues, and other activities. The following is a list of some of the programs offered for kids in June, July, and August. Stay tuned for ads for these and other programs throughout the summer. Haines Elementary Sports Programs This year, the Haines Borough School District is […]

An assembly discussion about funding the Haines Economic Development Corporation reflected some sharp contrasts in how the nonprofit is viewed. After a long discussion, the assembly voted to increase funding to HEDC in the upcoming fiscal year from $25,000 to $40,000 — but with a condition that the funds would be contingent on the state budget, […]

Haines visitors and residents now have a rideshare option for getting around town, five years after a former resident’s gig as an Uber driver fizzled. Summer resident Jax Funkhouser is offering rides in her seven-seater Dodge Caravan on Lyft, a service similar to Uber that can be accessed via a smartphone app. “It’s a great […]

Haines Borough staff and Mayor Douglas Olerud asked assembly member Tyler Huling to make a motion to reconsider a 4-2 vote made last week that prohibits commercial events in the Mud Bay Rural Residential Zone. Huling told the CVN that the borough manager, clerk, planner and Mayor contacted her on Friday and told her that after consultation with borough […]

toward creating the world’s first “green corridor” for cruise ships, which would stretch from Seattle to Southeast Alaska. The goal would be to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 in an effort to mitigate global climate change. Skagway and Juneau signed onto the effort, and local resident Sue Libenson told the Haines Borough Assembly on Tuesday that […]

The Haines Borough Assembly delayed a vote on the budget Tuesday, postponing decisions about whether to allocate more funding to the pool, museum, economic development corporation, avalanche center and Porcupine Road maintenance. There is also a new budget amendment on the table to set aside about $82,000 for nonprofits, which would apply for funding through a competitive […]

The Haines Borough Assembly voted 4-2 not to create a public ad-hoc working group that would have been tasked with advising the assembly on the Lutak Dock renovation project. Assembly member Debra Schnabel said she thought the Lutak Dock Project Group Advisory Committee, as it would have been called, would be redundant because plans for the dock project already will go through the […]