The Haines Borough will send a letter to Southeast Alaska Backcountry Adventures informing them that use of a heliport at 26 Mile for commercial helic...

Four minors were charged with underage drinking following the police bust of a party at an Allen Road residence at 3 a.m. New Year’s Day....

Near the end of his life, he was honored by U.S. military brass as a hero for helping liberate Nazi death camps, but to a generation of Haines...

Gov. Sean Parnell has included $4.5 million for Haines harbor improvement in the coming year’s budget, work that will go toward reducing wave...

An assembly recall campaign and a new effort targeting underage drinking punctuated the year 2011 in the Chilkat Valley News. Extreme weather and...

Bobbie Douglas Satterwhite, 60, of Haines died Dec. 11 at his home in Haines. A cause of death was not immediately known, but Satterwhite had...

Southeast Alaska Backcountry Adventures is going ahead with plans to use a 26 Mile Haines Highway site as a heliport, relying on a section of Haines...

Haines Borough officials this week said there’s time to develop disposal alternatives in the wake of Community Waste Solution’s decision...

Haines Borough Assembly members discussed hiring a consultant and appointing a task force Tuesday after two local trash companies and the president...

Gillnet fishermen in Lynn Canal harvested salmon worth $9.38 million in 2011, with nearly 80 percent of the catch value coming from hatchery-raised...

Notching five pins in five matches, Haines High School junior Jimmy Thomsen was named outstanding wrestler of the tournament at the Southeast region...

Three separate incidents of high winds since Nov. 28 knocked down trees, downed at least 14 sections of power lines, and blew out a landmark sign...

The Haines Borough Assembly Tuesday voted 4-2 to request the federal government require developers of a potential hydro-electric project above...

The Upper Lynn Canal Advisory Committee to the boards of Fish and Game will take up game proposals, as well as a request to prohibit black bear...

The Haines Borough Assembly will hold a special meeting 6 p.m. Tuesday to formulate comment on a preliminary permit sought by Alaska Power & Telep...

By Tom Morphet Blizzard-like conditions closed Haines schools Wednesday for the first time in several years, as winds whipped drifts across roads and...

Haines Borough police put down an orphan black bear with an injured paw Thursday, after the limping cub rustled through trash cans near Main Street....

The Haines Borough Assembly Tuesday unanimously reaffirmed its opposition to an east Lynn Canal highway, and continued preference for ferry improvemen...

Contractors working for the Chilkoot Indian Association last week removed more than 400 old dock pilings from the Port Chilkoot Dock beach, including...

Some brown bears in Southeast won’t ever go near a salmon stream, but prefer instead to live at higher altitudes, subsisting on ground...

Haines Borough meetings will get a new look – including increased opportunity for public comment and more assembly research in advance of...

"Gold Rush" the reality mining show set in the Chilkat Valley’s Porcupine mining district, won high ratings in its debut season on...

Some businesses this fall balked on sponsoring a Haines Glacier Bear T-shirt created by an Idaho firm, saying they shouldn’t be sending money...

Haines Borough officials say they’ll be reviewing their rules on subdivision approval to eliminate questions that arose in the past two weeks...

The Haines Borough School Board on Tuesday appointed former member Brenda Jones to a vacant seat. The unanimous vote came moments after a secret...