Chilkat Valley News - Serving Haines and Klukwan, Alaska since 1966

As an ardent hunter born in Alaska, I sat up straight in reading the headline in last week’s paper about the police chief trying to take out a...

Freedom does not include the freedom to get someone else sick. It does not include the freedom to refuse to wear a mask in the grocery store, sneeze...

Lynn Canal Broadcasting and KHNS celebrated 40 years of serving the Upper Lynn Canal last week with our annual membership meeting. On behalf of the...

The trauma of politics statewide and nationally has both sides and the middle fearing that every time somebody else is elected, the winners will take...

I would like to thank everyone who got out and voted in our local election. Thank you for your confidence in me. I will work hard to make our...

On behalf of the Haines High School Cross Country Team and myself, We would like to thank the following people:  Liam Cassidy, Rayshal Spalding,...

In the Oct. 1 CVN, Terrance Pardee refers to “highly paid environmental mouths.” It would have been nice of Terrance to let us know where we can f...

Mr. Dave Werner has bravely taken it upon himself to disprove the existence of racism in a town that is one half of one percent black.  Perhaps if...

Are we willing participants of a script pre-written eloquently by a select technocracy? Yes. The authors are embedded within agencies and corporations...

Alaskans have some important decisions to make in 2020. The most important may be the person we send to Washington, D.C. to be our senator for the nex...

Our family would like to express our deepest gratitude to Haines EMS, Dr. Wendell and the SEARHC staff, U.S. Coast Guard and Guardian flight crew for...

Our first 10 Amendments were ratified in 1791. The First Amendment was our right to free speech, the Second Amendment was our right to bear arms. The...

Haines has a history of polarization. It’s no surprise that when a foreign mining company comes to town, it exploits divisions within our community,...

I was shocked to learn from last week’s CVN that we allowed a representative of a foreign corporation to preside over an American election process...

Like a lot of folks, I was saddened to learn of the death of Speedy, arguably one of Chilkoot’s most observed, loved and photographed bears. It is...

I was worried after the attempted recall and associated vitriol regarding assembly politics, and the mean-spirited fiasco of manager Schnabel’s firi...

I have been thinking about people in my life that probably saved me. Here is a thank you note 15 years late: Thanks, Joann Ross Cunningham for...

Did you know that last year Haines Borough voters turned out some of the highest numbers of any community in Alaska during the 2019 municipal...

I have lived under Four Winds Mountain in Mosquito Lake for 20 years. I have asked many people where they believed the name of the mountain came from...

Saturday, Sept. 12, two Los Angeles police deputies sat in their parked car. A man walks up to the window and shoots both officers multiple times. The...

Thank you to the American Legion, American Legion Auxiliary, the Uglies and the New Fellowship Church and family and friends for phone calls,...

I’ve monitored some of the borough meeting comments made by local pseudo-experts, re: the Lutak Dock upgrades and the potential Alaska Industrial...

Listening to last week’s assembly meeting I believe I heard a member state “now that COVID is over....” Not once but twice. I was alarmed at...

In the assembly election we have six people running for four seats.  I was planning on voting for four.  However, a friend told me to vote only for...

Local voting is on my mind. Having thought about what would make a good assembly/mayor combination, I finally decided who I will vote for. The...