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Early next year AT&T will shut down its 3G wireless network, meaning certain old cell phones won’t be able to send or receive calls or messages. The...

Community Waste Solutions released its online survey that aims to get feedback on the landfill’s operations and gauge public interest for a garbage...

The board that oversees Alaska’s multibillion-dollar investment portfolio has fired Angela Rodell as chief executive officer of the Permanent Fund C...

Should the Haines Borough have more dry cabins? Tax incentives for developers? Another low-income apartment complex? These are among the questions...

Al Giddings will finish his tenure as fire chief of the Haines Volunteer Fire Department (HVFD) in January, following a decision not to seek...

Assuming he was muted on Zoom at a Nov. 29 heliski Committee of the Whole meeting, Eric Holle said, “I’d like to kill Liz Cornejo.” Cornejo had...

The Alaska Housing Finance Corp. is continuing its monthslong program of sending out rental and utility assistance payments — including almost...

National volunteer organization Team Rubicon, which helped remove December storm debris this fall, is establishing a local leadership team to assist w...

Haines Glacier Bear wrestlers competed at a meet in Juneau last weekend with three of five wrestlers now seeded for the Region V tournament in...

Alaska State Troopers arrested a 62-year-old Haines man in Craig last week for allegedly selling methamphetamine last fall. The man was being...

For the second time in the past 30 days, the state has to shift around the two other ferries serving Southeast to cover for the Matanuska, which will...

The Alaska Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation is considering opening the cabin at Chilkat State Park for public use in the winter, starting as...

As the Haines Borough Assembly weighs a draft ordinance that would eliminate a cap on heliski tour permits in the borough, a new idea has piqued the i...

On Saturday, it was too snowy to erect the Christmas tree on Main Street. On Thanksgiving, it was too snowy, for most, to run in the Turkey Trot or...

An anniversary memorializing the Dec. 2 flooding and landslides that killed two and displaced dozens last year will be held Saturday, Dec. 4 at 1.30...

For the second consecutive year, OBI Seafoods’ Excursion Inlet cannery won’t process fish next summer. The plant’s continued closure likely...

Chatham School District superintendent Bruce Houck, 61, was found dead in his home Wednesday morning. Alaska State Troopers spokesperson Tim Despain...

Juneau’s Bartlett Regional Hospital announced plans over the summer to open an outpatient mental health care office in Haines, but due to turnover...