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The Haines High School Drama, Debate and Forensics team had an impressive showing at its first meet in Sitka last weekend with seven pieces that...

Haines School looks to combine teacher and student goals to improve the school’s climate. Principal Rene Martin gave a recap at Tuesday’s school b...

A new restaurant set to open on Main Street this month will add options for Haines locals in the winter months and beyond. Owners Robert and Sue...

Incumbent Haines School Board members Sarah Swinton and Lisa Schwartz are running for re-election unopposed for two seats on the board in this...

The Haines Borough Public Library invites the community to learn about Tlingit, Haida, Athabascan and First Nations culture through the Cultural...

Entrancing a cappella harmonies rang out over the harbor in the soft sunshine of a September evening. Four members of the Haines Threshold Singers...

Teenagers can learn the ins and outs of working at a museum as part of the Sheldon Museum’s second annual Junior Curator program. Museum director He...

Fourteen Haines High School singers were invited to participate in this year’s Southeast Alaska Honor Music Festival that will be held in Haines on...

This winter’s bald eagle counts began Monday with 333 eagles spotted in the Chilkat Valley, a high number for this time of year. Chloe Goodson,...

Nine students from the Klukwan School got their hands wet and their boots muddy as they did the work of professional entomologists Sept. 14 on a...

Haines and Skagway residents may soon have access to faster internet service now that Alaska Power and Telephone is laying 86 miles of undersea...

Prepare to be shaken, not stirred as a mobile earthquake simulator will visit Haines on Sept. 26, courtesy of the Alaska Division of Homeland...

Local bands will rock out at the Chilkat Center at 7 p.m. Saturday to raise money for next summer’s Haines Girls Rock Camp. The concert will...

Southeast Alaska Independent Living in Haines will host a low vision clinic on Sept. 27 and 28 in collaboration with the Alaska Center for the Blind...

The Alaska Marine Highway System will have a steady winter ferry schedule this year despite budget cuts. Fuzzy Von Stauffenberg, Haines terminal...

Are the bears green with envy? Celebrating St. Patrick's Day? Trying for a punk rock look? Two green-splashed bears puzzled Haines locals and tourists...

The Haines School gym floor may have to be refinished again because the coating applied last month is still not completely dry. The gel-like coating...

This year’s surprisingly low pink salmon harvest is not expected to significantly affect raw fish tax funds to the Haines Borough. “No place did...

Kirk Lingofelt, statewide hunter education coordinator for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, will lead a hunter training program field day from...

Tim Holm and Trina McCandless are the new emergency medical technicians-firefighters for the Haines Borough and fire department. Holm was hired for a...

The Sealaska Heritage Institute developed and released two free apps last week to help people learn the Tlingit language. According to a SHI press...

A Yukon musician with Haines connections will release her fifth album at the Yukon Arts Centre in Whitehorse this month. Nicole Edwards’s CD titled...

A 58-year-old Haines man was arrested Tuesday at 33 Mile Haines Highway on multiple counts of assault, misconduct involving a weapon and one count of...

Glen Klinkhart will act as a temporary Haines Borough police chief through Sept. 15 as current police chief Heath Scott moves his family from...

Dan Sullivan, Alaska’s junior Republican Senator, visited Haines Monday to discuss problems the community may face and listen to constituents...