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Haines Borough lobbyist Bill Thomas submitted his first progress report to the manager last week, offering a day-by-day chronicling of his work in Jun...

Haines will be getting a new Alaska Wildlife Trooper no later than May 1, Major Bernard Chastain said this week. Wildlife trooper Trent Chwialkowski...

The headhunting firm hired by the Haines Borough to search for the town’s next manager and police chief is looking for input on what residents want...

Since appearing on the Haines Borough Planning Commission’s agenda in October, the issue of siting a heliport at 35 Mile Old Haines Highway has...

Dave Canipe, 62, said he’s “alive and kicking” after suffering his third heart attack while driving outside Fort Collins, Colo., on Jan. 21....

Haines Borough police officer Brayton Long can’t or won’t say how he shot himself during a firearms training session on Jan. 5. In interviews...

“Cruel.” “Vicious.” “Unprincipled.” Those are a few of the words Haines Borough Assembly members and one borough employee used to...

Cambria Goodwin and partner Eric Forster are moving their restaurant and bakery operation from Dalton City to Fort Seward, and transforming what used...

If Haines Borough Mayor Jan Hill and assembly members Diana Lapham and Mike Case get their way, $14,000 slated for this year’s local nonprofit...

Negotiations between the Local 71 workers’ union and the Haines Borough are about to begin, and local union representative Tom Brice said members...

Members of the Haines Borough Assembly squabbled Tuesday about whether to hire an out-of-town consultant to lead a strategic planning session or use l...

Advocates for the Chilkat Valley Preschool packed the Haines Borough Assembly chambers Tuesday to demonstrate the extent of community support for its...

Micah Charlton McMahan was born to parents Emily and Adam McMahan of Haines at 3:48 a.m. on Jan. 7. He was born at a birth center in Nashville, Tenn....

Haines Borough Assembly member Mike Case is proposing clerk Julie Cozzi receive a $15,000 salary bump, from her present $70,000 to $85,000. Case said...

An independent engineer reviewing the design of the Small Boat Harbor expansion says work done to date by PND Engineers is “thorough and well...

The Haines Borough Assembly is returning to the idea of establishing a property tax waiver program to spur local economic development. The assembly...

The Chilkat Valley Preschool is asking the Haines Borough Assembly to once again extend its lease for the Human Resources Building until it can move i...

Responding to residents concerned about confidentiality clauses in the Haines Borough’s agreement with lobbyist Bill Thomas, assembly member...

Tourism director Leslie Ross is proposing that $64,000 from the Haines Borough’s community and economic development director position be...

Can the Haines Borough mayor vote in a meeting without presiding over it as chair? Mayor Jan Hill did that on Dec. 29, casting two important...

Basketweaver and textile artist Lani Hotch recently received a $5,000 cultural preservation grant and fellowship from the First Peoples Fund, a...

A Haines Borough Assembly member is pushing to repeal the municipality’s motor vehicle registration tax. Established in October 2013, the tax was...

Fourteen dead seabirds found on a Portage Cove beach this week are apparently part of a larger statewide die-off that has puzzled biologists since...

Two local women – including one who will vie against her husband – are set to compete in a field of about 25 men in this weekend’s 47th Annual...

Readers across Alaska will be on the same page this winter. The Haines Borough Public Library is participating in Alaska’s first statewide “book c...