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School board to decide on early school schedule, mask requirements
The Haines Borough School District Board will decide Tuesday, Aug. 4 what the beginning of the school year’s schedule and operations will look like...
Assembly approves individual CARES Act grants, extends business grant deadline
At a meeting Tuesday night, the Haines Borough Assembly took additional steps to approve a spending plan for $2.1 million in CARES Act funding...
Assembly nixes CARES Act requests from food security groups
On July 23, the Haines Borough Assembly’s ad hoc CARES Act committee rejected proposals from two Chilkat Valley food security groups. Discussion at...
Resident arrested for intent to distribute heroin, meth
The U.S Postal Inspection Service, the Alaska State Troopers drug unit Southeast Alaska Cities Against Drugs (SEACAD) and Haines Police arrested a 43-...
Fishing remains slow, chum returns 'extremely poor'
Poor chum salmon returns combined with an uncertain sockeye run have gillnetters concerned. "It's di...
2 measures will likely be on the Oct. 6 ballot
This fall, the Haines Borough ballot will likely ask voters to make decisions about two proposals: a plan to draw $450,000 from the borough’s...
Committee to discuss childcare vouchers
The Cares Act ad hoc committee will discuss providing vouchers for childcare to individuals and families at its next meeting. Assembly member Brenda...
Haines unemployment rate remains high
The Haines unemployment rate remained one of the highest in the state in June, according to statistics released by the Alaska Department of Labor and...
Fruit harvesting effort forms to curb bear activity
The Haines Borough Public Library and Great Bear Foundation, a Haines and Montana-based nonprofit dedicated to bear conservation, are partnering with...
Candidate filing period opens Aug. 1
The filing period for elected office in the Haines Borough opens Aug. 1, with an Aug. 20 deadline. This year, positions up for election include the ma...
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E-bike delivery service begins in Haines After COVID-19 eliminated her primary sources of...
CIA receives $900,000 in federal COVID-19 relief
On July 17, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced the Chilkoot Indian Association (CIA) had received $900,000 through...
Taxpayer-funded garbage collection back on the table, again
Discussions about a taxpayer-funded garbage collection will be revived for the third time in as many years if the assembly approves the commerce...
Borough begins land sale talks
Haines Borough lands may be on the market in the not-too-distant future. The assembly and planning commission began initial talks last week about...
Resident taking borough to court over traffic ticket
Paul Nelson, 68, who won first place in the Haines Chamber of Commerce's reverse Fourth of July...
Assembly to consider annual 'I Love Lucy (Harrell) Day' proclamation
Inspired by Lucy Harrell’s final act of giving to Haines institutions before she died last summer, which included more than $1 million to the...
Bear task force recommends borough chip in for landfill fence
The borough’s bear task force is recommending that the assembly help fund the completion of an electric fence around Community Waste Solutions...
20-year soil remediation nears completion
A 20-year-long soil remediation project at Jones Point is finally nearing completion. This past...
Assembly declines to censure Rogers for manager firing
By Ceri Godinez At a meeting July 14, assembly member Zephyr Sincerny moved to censure Paul Rogers, another member of the assembly, for his...
New trail in the works near Fairgrounds
Chilkoot Indian Association (CIA) is adding a trail spanning East and West Fair Drive to offer an alternative to biking or walking along the highway....
Library to leave statewide system
The Haines Borough Public Library is changing its online catalog system in 2021, but patrons are unlikely to notice much of a difference, director...
Hazardous waste disposal discontinued
The Haines Borough’s annual household hazardous waste free disposal program will not take place this year, although the borough is looking for a...
41% of borough employees take furlough in July
Nearly half of the Haines Borough’s 51 full-time and part-time employees will be out of the office for a week at some point this month, the result...
