Chilkat Valley News - Serving Haines and Klukwan, Alaska since 1966

Due to budget cuts to the state Department of Transportation, motorists should expect to be driving in more snow this winter during evenings and...

Greg Christianson, whose Comstock Road home was destroyed by fire early Saturday, said this week he felt lucky that most of the family was gone at...

A recent $60,000 “patch job” roof repair at the Haines School looks mostly successful but uncovered other issues, school maintenance manager Gary...

At Tuesday’s Haines Borough School Board meeting, teachers lined up against siting the Chilkat Valley Preschool in the Haines School, saying it...

Radio station manager Kay Clements told KHNS members at the public station’s 35th anniversary membership meeting Oct. 2 that the station had some...

Residents who haven’t gotten their subsistence fish can take a deep breath. Due to a late-season abundance of sockeye returning to Chilkat Lake,...

Like the hero of the 1976 hit song by Johnny Cash, Gene Kennedy spent seven years putting together a 1929 Ford Model A panel delivery truck “one...

Two current members and one newcomer are seeking three seats on the Haines Borough School Board in Tuesday’s municipal election. Candidates were...

Haines Borough School Board members agreed to offer a salary range of $105,000-$115,000 for a 260-day contract for its next superintendent Tuesday,...

The Bureau of Land Management this week started cleaning up the site of an illicit rifle range at 7 Mile, a $366,000 project aimed at removing soil...

The upper Lynn Canal subsistence moose hunt has started with a bang -- or rather, a lot of them. Eighteen moose, including one sublegal, were taken...

A closure of subsistence and sport fishing in Lynn Canal last spring apparently had its desired effect. The Department of Fish and Game has met its...

It’s with great sadness that we report this week the death of Ray Menaker, the founder of this newspaper. We were hoping Ray would make it to...

Members of a citizens group opposing a minor offense ordinance have developed a battery of arguments against its passage, including that it would...

Biologists last spring counted 1,895 Steller sea lions at Sea Lion Rock, the highest number since systematic counts started there in 2004. That...

A man who lived in Haines 30 years ago left land in his will to the American Bald Eagle Foundation, a gift that’s worth about $48,000. Creighton...

Owners of Haines Brewing Co. planned a “soft opening” at their new Main Street location at noon Monday with just a few friends, as they weren’t...

A dozen or more citizens of widely divergent political opinions met for several hours Saturday, working to slow down 250 minor offense laws that the...

Senior Casey Bradford and sophomore Tulsi Zahnow led Haines boys’ and girls’ squads, respectively, at the biennial Haines Invitational...

Scenes from famous musicals and rock-n-roll will be featured at “Off, Off, Off Broadway,” the fourth annual fall fundraiser and membership drive...

We the People, a local organization formed as an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement, has gone into dormancy, members said this week. George...

A citizens group is continuing efforts to use Mosquito Lake School as a community center, but progress was disrupted by the departure of Bill...

Residents should expect more dramatic cuts to the ferry system starting in July 2017, state Rep. Sam Kito, D-Juneau, said during a recent visit here....

The Southeast Alaska State Fair is in “good shape for 2015 and the sustainable future” despite a $17,000 drop in income, mostly from decreased...