Juneau just set a new snowfall record, while Haines has had a snowy year but without the extremes. One upside is that the sledding hill on Mount Riley Road has gotten a lot more use this year. The hill itself is a community effort, maintained by Donnie Turner, who grooms it with a homemade rig […]
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Wednesday Gold Medal elimination day sends eight teams out of tournament
Wednesday’s 77th annual Juneau Lions Club Gold Medal Basketball Tournament was an elimination day. That means if teams lose, they don’t have to go home but they can’t play in the tournament anymore this year. Eight quality teams fell in the fourth day of Gold Medal action. The day started with a classic Angoon/Hydaburg classic […]
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This Week in History: Average Haines age, extreme ski contest and border relocation
10 years ago After a drop of 84 people in 2013 and an increase of 21 in 2014, the population of Haines has reverted to a downward trend, dropping 58 people in the last year to a total of 2,493, according to state statistics. The town is also continuing to get older, maturing from a […]
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Duly Noted: Carving, Canada, Snowboarding and more
Joe Aultman-Moore found himself on a homestead a couple of hours outside of Rio de Janeiro doing chores, building custom shelves and discovering the spectacular birds of the southern rainforest. He spent a week hiking on a jungle island, and dodging rattlesnakes and Armadeira spiders. Aultman-Moore went on to spend about a month riding riverboats […]
Chilkat Valley Newsletter Friday March 20
One of the Yukon territory’s best known breweries is sitting out on Haines’ brew fest this year, citing concerns about crossing the border amid ongoing U.S.-Canada tensions. Yukon Brewing’s absence is raising broader concerns about whether fewer Canadians will make the trip south for local events for the second year. Organizers are cautious about drawing […]
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More than 100 gather for final winter potluck, organizers seek funding to expand program
Just a few minutes after the doors of the Alaska Native Brotherhood/Sisterhood Hall in Haines opened, more than 80 people were in line for food. Many had walked in with their own dishes to share in the final community potluck meal of the season, organized by the Haines Chamber of Commerce and local chef Travis […]
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Pride, and some frustration, from Freeride weekend
Californian Ross Tester has made a career hurtling off mountain faces across the world. Standing above the Chilkat Valley’s Little Jarvis Glacier Friday morning was something different. From the starting gate of the 27-year-old skier’s Freeride World Tour run, Tester said the steepness of the pitch meant the mountain “rolled over” out of sight below […]
Chilkat Valley Newsletter Friday March 13
The long-running debate over resource development took a new turn this week when two Haines assembly members introduced a sweeping draft package aimed at regulating any future heavy industry in the borough. The proposal — described as a “safety belt” — lays out dozens of potential guardrails that could apply if projects like large-scale mining […]
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Local organizations rush for large state pot before deadline
The state has been promised a more-than-quarter-billion dollar windfall, and some of it could end up in the Chilkat Valley. The $272 million materialized in Juneau just before New Year’s for the Rural Health Transformation Program — part of the Trump Administration’s tax and spending bill, often referred to as the One Big Beautiful Bill, […]
Chilkat Valley Newsletter Friday March 6
Twenty years ago, a small brown bear cub was picked up near Mud Bay. Wildlife biologists discovered it had been fed dog food at a local home. The orphaned cub eventually left Alaska, becoming part of a trio of rescued bears who would spend their lives together at a major zoo exhibit thousands of miles […]