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Got food (scraps)? There's a new composter in town
Haines’ time without community composting didn’t last long. Cindy Zuluaga Jimenez of Spruce & Birch Acres, a small poultry and flower farm on...
Late Chilkoot River sockeye run causes surprise, nostalgia
Fishermen in Lutak Inlet saw a bumper run of sockeye salmon in the last two weeks of August as more than 24,000 fish passed the weir between Aug. 22...
Juneau hospital answers Haines' call for mental health help
Haines’ mental health care needs aren’t being met, wrote Haines Borough mayor Doug Olerud in an Aug. 18 letter to Juneau’s Bartlett Regional...
Local lifeguard saves surfer
An experienced California surfer riding the bore tide wave on Turnagain Arm near Anchorage credits...
Chilkoot Indian Association seats two new members after tribal elections
The Chilkoot Indian Association’s council chair and vice chair, Les Katzeek and James Hart, were unseated at last week’s election. The three...
Art students ollie into skate park mural project
Armed with paint brushes, rollers and rolls of tape, Haines High School art students launched a...
Haines' COVID-19 case count drops as state numbers escalate
As Alaska eclipsed its record for the number of people hospitalized due to COVID-19, the Haines Borough’s case count dropped to six active...
Five candidates run for contested school board election
Five candidates for school board are running for four open seats next month. The race is one of the first contested elections for school board in...
Gaps in Haines service persist in published winter ferry schedule
Last week the state published its fall/winter ferry schedule, from Oct. 1 through April. As proposed in the draft schedule released in July, Haines...
Family wonders if missing relative came to Haines; police say no evidence
The sister of Joseph Clayton, a 48-year-old Oregon man that went missing in Juneau on Aug. 20, thinks that Clayton might have boarded a ferry to...
Correction
Last week’s article “Students Return to School with a greater sense of normalcy,” incorrectly reported that the Mat-Su school district...
Supply shortages, inflation hit Haines
Milk shelves at all three local grocery stores were empty this week due to a coronavirus outbreak and “a comedy of errors” at a major...
Students return to school with a greater sense of normalcy
Although pandemic mitigations are still in place, Haines School's first day back Tuesday was more...
Data scarcity muddles heliski policy
As Haines Borough Government Affairs and Services (GAS) Committee members decide whether to change code to allow a fourth heliski operator in the...
Roadside tower: Is it art, mailbox or lamppost?
By Tom Morphet "Pythagoras came to me in a dream" is how Jeff Bochart explains the nearly...
Canadians rebuffed by U.S. border another month
Canada opened its border to fully vaccinated Americans more than two weeks ago, but last week the U.S. extended its ban on Canadian travelers at the b...
Covid causes Constellation cancelation
The American Constellation canceled three of its dockings this month because of a COVID-19 virus outbreak. The 175-passenger cruise ship canceled its...
Assembly scraps seasonal sales tax
The assembly voted unanimously to scrap a proposed seasonal sales tax ordinance. The sales tax issue will go back to the finance committee for further...
Assembly candidate profiles
The CVN reached out to this year's candidates for assembly to learn more about their background,...
Columbia might come back for summer 2022 ferry service
The Alaska Marine Highway System has put out its summer 2022 draft schedule for public comment, with two potentially big changes from this year: the...
State trying to solve ferry crew shortage
The Alaska Marine Highway System is not alone in trying to manage with a crew shortage, nor is it a new problem. But the fear of COVID-19 is making...
New chiropractor sets up shop
Arctic Chiropractic Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy opened this month, filling the gap left by this summer’s closure of Chris Thorgesen’s...
