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

For the sake of this holiday political fable, let’s assume there is a Santa Claus and the all-knowing gift giver tracks your behavior 365 days a...

As an official record of our community, the Chilkat Valley News strives to report the births and deaths of all residents. Obituaries are available in...

There is an inescapable irony to the fact that Alaska joined with a dozen other states in suing the federal government over their right to cut taxes....

The Alaska Constitution requires that every 10 years voters consider whether it’s time to elect and convene a group of several dozen Alaskans to...

I believe biologists Carl Koch and Anthony Crupi created the 2020 brown bear crisis, combined with Chilkoot River bear viewing activities. Biologists...

I’d like to add a caveat to Keri Eggleston’s letter to the editor this week. While I agree that parents should consider some of the facts she...

Editorial from this week’s Wrangell Sentinel Doctors at the Alaska Psychiatric Institute are there to help make people think and feel better about...

One of the great speeches of my lifetime immortalized that phrase with deep meaning and symbolism that will stretch far into the future beyond our...

Last week I quoted several parents who spoke to the school board in opposition to mask requirements for their children. A reader criticized me for...

As if national campaigns haven’t turned nasty enough in recent years, the billions of dollars at stake in political fundraising is making it worse....

The list of escalating Alaska political divides is growing faster than skunk cabbage in a rainforest. And it smells just as bad. The line-up for the...

Could anything be more difficult than getting the Alaska Legislature to settle on a workable, affordable, sustainable fiscal plan for the state? Yes....

The Henderson Garden Group (HGG) originated when advancing age made it impossible for Bob Henderson to continue his garden without help. In 2009 he...

Editorial from this week’s Wrangell Sentinel Alaskans have taken a collective leap over the embankment of common sense. We didn’t merely leave...

The governor’s office got it wrong when it referred to $400,000 in state funding for the Alaska Legal Services Corp. as a subsidy. Guess they had...

Yeah, I know, it’s 14 months from Alaska’s 2022 primary election for governor, legislative seats and two of the state’s three members of...

Gov. Mike Dunleavy must have learned how to manage state finances from the same people who guard the world’s biggest secret recipes: Col....

Dear Abby, Why do some neighbors insist on whining like indulged, petulant children, running to the Borough with complaints, wasting everyone’s...

One learns grace when unjustly accused, and, in defending their dignity, loses their place and must pull at whatever scraps are offered to rebuild a l...

I am confused. Once again I have read an odd article about the Sheldon Museum and Cultural Center, Inc. (Museum) in the paper concerning the sale of...

Not a single legislator voted against the bill to reconfigure the public advisory board for the Alaska Marine Highway System, taking away from...

While the Alaska Legislature continues to work in special session this week on the state budget and deciding the amount of this year’s Permanent...

Alaska legislators are in the second week of a special session to finish work on the state budget for the fiscal year that starts in just five weeks,...