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Alaska’s top Division of Forestry officials are coming to town next week to discuss with residents and Haines Borough officials the future of the...

Haines Borough Police Chief Heath Scott’s first meeting with the Public Safety Commission this week included a two-hour closed door session during w...

The Haines Highway reconstruction project, a $100 million job about 12 years in the making, this week received the green light to move forward. The...

The Haines Borough is advancing its Small Boat Harbor expansion project, but public facilities director Brad Ryan said the municipality will likely ne...

Promotions and retirements at the Haines Borough mean residents will be seeing new faces at the office and around town. Administrative assistant...

Only about one in every 10 registered Haines voters turned out to cast their ballots in Tuesday’s statewide primary election, but those who did...

When Scott Haston, a 1980 Haines High School graduate, returned to town this May after 35 years away, his first reaction was, “Everywhere you look,...

Audience members who ask questions and voice concerns during the public comment period at the beginning of Haines Borough Assembly meetings could...

The Chilkat Valley Preschool has passed the halfway mark in its effort to raise $420,000 for the construction of its new home, a 1,400-square-foot...

The Haines Borough Assembly meeting on Tuesday kicked off with an exceptional amount of back-patting, including the presentation of a new award...

The Haines Borough has spent more than $13,000 to date defending itself in a lawsuit filed by a sister company of Southeast Alaska Backcountry...

John Hutchins came to the law later in life. Before taking the job as Haines Court magistrate in March 2003, Hutchins built parts for the Apollo...

For months, the Haines Sheldon Museum has been working to get Whitehorse artist Lyn Fabio’s artwork into the country. Fabio’s pieces are primarily...

Haines is a long way from Washington, D.C., and Haines Borough Police Chief Heath Scott has spent the last three weeks “getting used to the...

A state employee jumped the gun last week when she told the Haines Borough a solution had been reached in the ongoing issue of residents parallel...

Alaska Mountain Guides is looking to add a commercial ATV tour to its operations that would take clients around the Flower Mountain and lower Klehini...

A new program aimed at training residents contemplating a run for Haines Borough Assembly drew little interest this week, with three members of the...

The Chilkat Center’s walls reverberated with bold beats and rocking rhythms this week as 19 up-and-coming musicians put the finishing touches on...

Local officials often proclaim Haines as boasting the highest number of veterans per capita in Alaska, but a report released last month by Alaska...

A Haines Borough employee’s confidential complaint of workplace violence to the state’s Occupational Safety and Health department has prompted...

The Haines Borough is continuing to inch forward in its effort to get moving on fixing the Lutak Dock. The borough is looking for qualified design fir...

Some Haines residents have been getting lucky lately as a convergence of circumstances has led to an uptick in the number of criminal cases being...

A brown, frothy liquid poured from the taps of the Haines Borough’s water customers last weekend, following a drop in pressure at the borough’s wa...

Sale of a waste-handling business has resurrected discussion of consolidating service in Haines. Acme Transfer owner Paul Nelson has agreed to sell...