The Haines Borough Assembly on Tuesday approved adjustments to its 2022 budget, which expires Thursday, due to higher-than-expected fuel and heating costs as well as unusually heavy snowfall last winter that drove up snow removal costs. Public works expenditures were $84,500 higher than anticipated because of increased motor fuel prices and snow removal expenses. Utilities were also […]

Due to a technicality, the Haines Borough Assembly on Tuesday reaffirmed its May 24 decision to prohibit commercial events in the Mud Bay rural residential zone following a long discussion and public testimony. The assembly voted 3-2 to reconsider their previous action, falling one vote short of the four votes required to pass a motion, as established […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Haines Borough Planning Commission voted on May 12 to rezone a popular retreat, wedding and yoga center at the northern edge of the Mud Bay neighborhood after borough staff discovered that the business’ permit expired in 2019. The move, if approved by the Haines Borough Assembly, would detach six adjacent lots, including the Chilkat Inlet Retreat, from […]