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Residents petition site development ordinance
Several variations of a petition to remove all areas outside of the townsite from land-use permitting requirements for site development are being...
Committee asks Fish and Game for more thorough review of mining project
The Upper Lynn Canal Fish and Game Advisory Committee wants the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to take a harder stance on potential mining issues...
Haines among five towns to receive business workshops
The Alaska Small Business Development Center (AKSBDC) selected Haines as one of five pilot communities for a rural business development project that...
Josephson proposes cuts to library, museum
The Haines Borough Assembly will hold a third public hearing on June 11 to address assembly member Brenda Josephson’s proposed budget amendments, in...
Bradford retires after 30 some years
Candi Bradford is uniquely familiar with the water and sewer plant in Haines since her first date...
UA timber sale contract remains unsigned
The University of Alaska timber sale remains stalled due to tariffs and a lack of log transfer infrastructure, a university spokesperson said last wee...
HVFD to resurrect search and rescue team
The Haines Volunteer Fire Department is adding a search and rescue unit to its ranks, with bylaws set for adoption at their June 10 meeting....
Pollen Apocalypse made worse by rising global temperatures
Pollen clouds that have carpeted the Chilkat Valley this month are exacerbated by climate change,...
New York architects present PC trail plans
Two represenetatives from a New York-based landscape architecture firm visited Haines from May 18 to May 23 to meet with residents, present plans for...
DNR extends comment period, but not because of borough request
The Alaska Department of Natural Resources (DNR) permitting office announced Monday that it is extending the comment period for two state permits soug...
Assembly asks DNR to extend Constantine permit comment period
The Haines Borough forwarded borough manager Debra Schnabel’s letter to the state’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) requesting a 30-day...
Choir wins big at state
After the eight-member Haines High School ensemble rang out the final note in a contemporary acapella rendition of “Africa” at the state...
Police chief applies for UAA job
By Jenna Kunze Haines Borough Police Chief Scott is one of three applicants being considered for campus police chief at University of Alaska at...
Lack of census participation will cost borough state and federal funding
Every 10 years, roughly half of Haines residents jeopardize thousands of dollars in state and federal funding by ignoring U.S Census Bureau mailings,...
Business Briefs
Body IQ moves up the hill After almost five years in the firehall in Fort Seward, owner and therapist Marnie Harman has moved Body IQ out of the rente...
Federal law threatens Native seal hunting rights
It was a flat, calm day on the water sixteen years ago when father and son Wayne and Steven Price...
Police spending, canine conundrum
The Haines police chief is asking for a $37,826 budget increase — about 3.7 percent — for the fiscal year that starts July 1, to help cover the...
Poor king forecast restricts commercial fleet
Time and area restrictions intended to protect area king salmon will likely affect sockeye landings by gillnetters this season. Spawning Chilkat king...
Police officer resigns to become tour operator
When officer Brayton Long was assaulted by a Fairbanks man on the street earlier this month, he had...
Aqueous storage heads to committee
Despite written opposition, the Haines Borough Assembly chambers overflowed with impassioned testimonies Tuesday evening in support of a draft...
Public hearing set for plastic bag ban ordinance
An ordinance that would ban the distribution of non-compostable plastic shopping bags in the Haines Borough was introduced by the assembly on April...
Residents rally to oppose seasonal pool closure
By Jenna Kunze Fifteen residents defended the Haines swimming pool against seasonal closure at the Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee last week....
New Palmer Project permit up for review
The Palmer Project’s application for two separate permits that would regulate subsurface exploration are pending two state agencies’ approval...
Commissioner resigns after rewrite
Last week, Haines Borough Planning Commission chair Don Turner III resigned over a last- minute rewrite to an ordinance the commission worked on for...
COW holds first budget meeting
The borough manager’s draft budget was brought to life Tuesday when 11 department heads pitched assembly members on operations and goals....
