The Haines Borough Planning Commission narrowly decided March 10 to deny a landowner’s request for unlimited use of a heliport near 35 Mile Haines...

The deadline for an ad hoc committee to bring a revamped minor offenses ordinance to the Haines Borough Assembly is fast approaching, with a town...

After a drop of 84 people in 2013 and an increase of 21 in 2014, the population of Haines has reverted to a downward trend, dropping 58 people in the...

Entrepreneurs in communities as far-flung as Sand Point and Coffman Cove are champing at the bit to get a marijuana business license from the State...

In recent years, behavior at Haines Borough Assembly meetings has gotten a bit unruly. “Some of the meetings recently have just been haywire,...

Entertainment coordinator Scott Ramsey has secured headliners for the 48th Annual Southeast Alaska State Fair, with celebrated singer-songwriter...

Takshanuk Watershed Council in partnership with the Southeast Alaska Watershed Coalition is seeking a grant that would identify and catalog the ecolog...

Mayme Nickerson traveled to Klukwan this week from Klawock for the 40-day party for her late husband Donald Nickerson Sr. About 50-60 people attended...

The Haines Borough received a largely clean bill of health on its latest financial audit, though problems with grant management resulted in funding lo...

Two applications for public convenience beer and wine licenses in Haines have touched off a discussion about whether the municipality would have too...

Haines Borough Mayor Jan Hill is trying to limit when assembly members can teleconference into a meeting. At the body’s Feb. 23 meeting, three...

The Haines Borough’s Parks and Recreation Committee is trying to pick up where the inactive Downtown Revitalization Committee left off by...

Property owner Paul Nelson has filed for reimbursement of his legal fees for a lawsuit he recently won against the Haines Borough, and assembly...

Mercy Evelyn Nash was born to parents Amy and Song Nash on Feb. 29 at Seattle’s Ballard Hospital. She weighed 7 lbs., 4 oz., and measured 18.5...

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz bested Donald Trump in Tuesday’s statewide Presidential Preference Poll, but the New York billionaire...

Organizations and businesses around town are scrambling to prepare for the Freeride World Tour, with event staff scheduled to begin arriving in...

A Superior Court judge last week ruled the Haines Borough violated its own code last year when it fined a Skyline Estates property owner $600 for fail...

Freshmen aren’t usually the star players or participants on high school teams, but that wasn’t the case for this year’s Haines Glacier Bards....

Can you spell “auriferous”? What about “susurration”? Or “arpeggio”? Eighth-grader Aurora Alten-Huber can. And she did on Tuesday, at the...

Haines High School senior Autumn Gross was recently named “Student of the Year” by the Alaska Society for Technology and Education. ASTE...

A Tier 3 designation for the Chilkat River would be compatible with uses like two-stroke outboard motors and existing mining operations, but would be...

The Haines Borough Public Library is one of 30 finalists for the prestigious National Medal for Museum and Library Service, a recognition director Pat...

The Haines Borough Police Department’s new officer is hoping to ramp up enforcement of drug and alcohol-related crimes, including driving under the...

This year’s Telluride Mountain Film Festival features the usual stunning images of exotic destinations with a local twist: one of the 14 films is...

In a discussion that included reference to U.S. Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia and a member being gaveled over teleconference, the Haines...