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The Haines Borough Assembly and Alaska State Troopers Director Hans Brinke reached an impasse Wednesday afternoon on which government agency is respon...

A group of friends from Canada caught the first and third largest coho salmon during the Haines Sportsman’s Association’s first annual Coho...

After 14 years of ownership and year-round business, Harbor Bar and Lighthouse Restaurant owner Mike Ward is closing it for the winter and putting...

The Haines Borough Assembly voted last week to oppose a proposed trail leading across the boat ramp in the Portage Cove Harbor design but a PND...

Haines Borough Mayor Jan Hill and borough manager Debra Schnabel are working to refine and release a publicly subsidized solid waste program plan that...

Public versus private use of a downtown lot resurfaced as various borough boards and committees rehashed what to do with the empty lot at Third and...

The American Bald Eagle Foundation wants to increase community participatoin during this year’s festival. Sidney Campbell, education and outreach co...

Haines police have charged a man who allegedly crashed his car into a Delta Western truck and left the scene without reporting the accident last...

Despite the fact he wasn't supposed to be on the plane headed toward Haines that crashed into Lynn Canal during Beer Fest last spring, it's hard not...

The first academic and literary history of the Chilkat Valley’s Tlingit people and their eventual contact with Europeans and Russians will be...

An Alaska Mountain Guide permit application to operate winter tours around 26 Mile will head to committee before the Haines Borough Assembly takes...

The Haines Borough Assembly voted 5-1 to include Northern Wild Sheep and Goat Council management recommendations for borough staff to overlay when it...

Setting maximum commercial gillnet mesh sizes and closing subsistence fishing for increased periods in the Chilkat River were among the proposals the...

HEDC compiles studies The Haines Economic Development Corporation will dust off and compile borough studies and surveys completed in the past for a po...

The Haines Borough has twice used a drone to spot local zoning violations without informing property owners that the unmanned aircraft flew over and...

Haines Borough Planning Commission member and newly elected assembly member Brenda Josephson challenged the borough assembly’s letter of support of...

The Glacier Bears volleyball team competed in the first half of a seeding tournament hosted in Haines Sunday and Monday. Teams from Wrangell,...

Police arrested a young couple during a sting operation Tuesday afternoon after the pair picked up a package from the post office containing what...

Pacific Pile & Marine is seeking $1 million from the Haines Borough, claiming the sea floor was harder than described in bid documents for dredging...

Haines’ American Legion Lynn Canal Post 12 has stopped airing NFL games until the football league “restores proper respect to our flag and...

The Haines Borough Assembly is asking the University of Alaska to delay awarding the Chilkat Peninsula timber sale contract until they can meet and...

Tobacco and marijuana taxes will take effect Jan. 1, 2018 after the assembly voted to approve the excise taxes Tuesday. The assembly voted 4-2 to...

The Haines Sheldon Museum will open its new exhibit “Everything from afar drifts ashore,” Friday, Oct. 20 at 5 p.m. The exhibit is based on Dan He...