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Local News, Government & Elections

Assembly briefs: Executive sessions, school funding, tourism survey results, a Lutak Dock update, police chief management

by Will Steinfeld - Chilkat Valley News February 27, 2025February 27, 2025

(Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News) Students head into school on the first day of classes on August 20, 2024, in Haines, Alaska.

Education, Local News

Two finalists named for Haines school superintendent

by Rashah McChesney - Chilkat Valley News December 12, 2024December 12, 2024

Education, Local News

Haines superintendent resigns after seven years

by Rashah McChesney - Chilkat Valley News October 8, 2024October 8, 2024

School board candidates in the Chilkat Valley watch a training video through the National Association of School Boards. This photo ran in the September 26, 1974 edition of the Chilkat Valley News.

This Week in History

This Week in History: Save the trees, maybe it’s the plankton, and a missed deadline

by Chilkat Valley News September 5, 2024November 17, 2024

Lori Mastrella signs a petition asking the state to allow camping at Portage Cove during a "Camp-In" organized by mayor Tom Morphet on May 17, 2024. (Lex Treinen/Chilkat Valley News)

Local News, Haines Borough, News

Assembly Briefs: The Lutak Dock saga, progress at Portage Cove, and a cruise tourism study

by Rashah McChesney - Chilkat Valley News August 15, 2024October 14, 2024

hree brown bear cubs crouch in the grass near their mother in a meadow in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve in 2009. A new rule resurrects a ban on bear baiting by sport hunters in national preserves in Alaska, but the National Park Service opted against expanding the rule to ban other controversial practices. (Courtesy/ K. Jalone, National Park Service)

Bear baiting again banned in national preserves in Alaska, under new National Park Service rule

by Yereth Rosen - Alaska Beacon July 12, 2024August 29, 2024

Whales in Glacier Bay on July 17, 2009. The National Park Service has issued its first whale waters alert of the season, slowing boats through areas where whales have been observed feeding. (Courtesy/Christopher Michael, Wikimedia Commons)

Local News, Wildlife

With humpback whales feeding in the area, Glacier Bay tells boaters to slow down

by Francisco Martínezcuello - Chilkat Valley News July 3, 2024August 29, 2024

Smoke from the Swan Lake Fire burning in the Chugach National Forest obscures the view of Kenai Fjords National Park's Exit Glacier on Aug. 23, 2019. The glacier can normally be seen clearly from this visitor pullout established by the National Park Service. The Park Service is preparing a fire management plan for five coastal units, including Kenai Fjords. WIldfire smoke is one of the considerations in the plan. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)

News, Environment

National Park Service drafting plan that might allow fire-prevention work in coastal Alaska units

by Yereth Rosen - Alaska Beacon June 22, 2024September 11, 2024

Two brown bear cubs accented with fall fireweed wandering the bank of the Chilkoot River while mom fishes. (Harvey Hergett/USDA Forest Service)

News, Local News, Public Safety

After 2 years without a park ranger, Haines gets a new one

by Rashah McChesney - Chilkat Valley News April 27, 2024October 13, 2024

he halls are lined with lockers and portraits of elders at the Anna Tobeluk Memorial School in Nunapitchuk, Alaska. October 12, 2023. (Courtesy photo by Claire Stremple/Alaska Beacon)

Education, School Board

Alaska board of education lowers standard for student test scores, citing nationally high bar

by Claire Stremple - Alaska Beacon January 24, 2024October 13, 2024