It’s quieter in the Chilkat Valley for Jim and Deb Stanford, the last of Haines’ mushers. A snowy field behind their house for the first time in decades sits empty. For 30 years the yard belonged to more than 60 barking and howling sled dogs. This winter, Stanford burned the dog houses, pulled the posts […]

The University of Alaska’s land management office is researching its land-use permitting process to allow hunting west of the Chilkat River, University regional manager Laura Carmack said on Monday. In October, the university alleged theft and trespassing issues, including hunting while surveying the land in September. Response from residents who have hunted on unmarked University Land […]

In the wake of recent tragedies in Haines, community members have pooled resources of time, food, donations and, largely – money, primarily through an online crowdfunding platform called GoFundMe. In the past month, more than $14,000 has been raised across five different campaigns to alleviate community members recovering from an infant’s death, house fires, severe […]

A string of fires destroyed three mobile homes in the past several weeks and left residents without their homes, possessions and in one case, their pets. On Jan. 4 a trailer in the Eagle’s Nest Trailer Park caught fire around 4:00 a.m. A next-door neighbor called the Haines Volunteer Fire Department, which arrived shortly after […]

The surfacing of what many residents described as a decades-long open secret shook the town this year: allegations from multiple men of sexual abuse by former school official Karl Ward. Craig Loomis, the first man to speak publicly, was contacted by several others who had similar experiences after he implored those affected to reach out […]