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With the future of a favorite winter recreation site in jeopardy, the Haines Borough Assembly stepped in Tuesday to ensure the sledding hill on Mount...

Several members of the Haines Borough Planning Commission asked for more support from the assembly during a joint meeting of the two bodies last...

Dozens of Alaska Power Company customers testified at a recent Regulatory Commission of Alaska hearing in Haines, railing against the company’s...

Haines Volunteer Fire Department Chief Scott Bradford issued a burn ban Monday, as fire danger climbed to one notch below “extreme.” Campfires, bu...

In 2007, the downtown of Greenville, Kentucky, population 4,200, looked a lot like Haines’ Main Street does today. According to Brett Schwartz, a...

Veteran state Sen. Bert Stedman, R-Sitka, said Haines residents shouldn’t kid themselves: Redistricting and declining state appropriations likely...

Haines Borough staff is looking into improving roads within the townsite following a request by mayor Stephanie Scott to spend more of the...

Valuations of land in downtown Haines dropped this year, though contract assessor Marty McGee said that doesn’t mean the land is necessarily...

Royal Caribbean Cruises is returning to Haines in 2015 for the first time since 2000, when the company abruptly pulled all its cruise ship dockings, c...

The Haines Chamber of Commerce board has rescinded its offer to help raise money for a sauna at the Haines pool. After months of roadblocks and resist...

At its first budget discussion Tuesday, Haines Borough Assembly members and officials made suggestions including revisiting the possibility of...

A four-person hiring committee is set to begin interviews with the top two candidates for the Haines Borough tourism director position. Haines...

The Haines Borough Planning Commission recently approved resident Joanne Waterman’s plan to restore the Port Chilkoot Fire Hall to its original heig...

Classical guitarist to play Classical guitarist Dimitris Kotronakis will be showing off his lightning-fast style at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 8, at the...

Second in a series of articles examining the emptying of the town’s core. Upcoming stories will include government’s role in revitalization and...

A state agency last week awarded Constantine Metal Resources lease rights to nearly 100,000 acres of land 30 miles northwest of Haines for mineral exp...

Local heli-ski company Southeast Alaska Backcountry Adventures on April 17 agreed to pay more than $20,000 in fines and be placed on four years of...

At the direction of the Haines Borough Assembly, manager David Sosa will begin soliciting bids for noise studies estimated to cost between $6,000 and...

This is the first in a series of articles about the emptying of the town’s core. Stories in coming weeks will include the role of government in...

The Haines Borough’s latest contract assessor says years of problems persist in the borough’s assessment system and resolving them may require...

The Haines Borough Assembly April 8 rejected mayor Stephanie Scott’s request to send an opinion piece to the Juneau Empire criticizing funding of...

The fourth time was the charm for the Haines Borough tourism department. The Haines Borough Assembly last week approved the deparments’s request...

Using the Port Chilkoot Dock lightering float may be getting more expensive. The Haines Borough Assembly introduced an ordinance last week that would...

Sixth-grader Marirose Evenden soared to victory Sunday as the only female competitor and winner of the beginner category at the 19th Annual Olen Nash...

The Haines Borough is taking a step toward addressing its dilapidated wastewater treatment plant, beginning with designs for more than $4 million in...