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Kimberley Strong’s college degree was a long time coming – nearly 35 years. Since she started attending colleges in California in the early 1980s,...

By an 80 percent margin, Haines Borough teachers last week voted to reject a compensation proposal negotiated between union representatives and the...

A new school schedule that starts earlier in the day and ends later – except on Thursdays – is aimed at allowing staff more time for professional...

The Haines Borough School Board is scheduled to make a decision on its “Engaging the Future” computer initiative Tuesday, June 2. The meeting...

“Engaging the Future,” an initiative that would expand availability of computers at the Haines School, including lower grades, came under the...

Chilkat Valley Preschool board members will meet during a finance committee meeting May 28 and discuss what will come of about $100,000 the group...

Haines High School valedictorian Keegan Sundberg on Tuesday urged his classmates to “try your best to accept new things with an open mind. Life is...

Community Youth Development soccer is back. The free, borough-run, summer sports program took a break last year. It will run June 30-Aug. 6, with...

My mom and dad were not enamored of the 20th century’s greatest learning tool, as television once was hailed. They prohibited us from watching it...

What a difference a year can make. In spring 2014, Chilkat Valley Preschool officials were so discouraged by the Haines Borough School District’s...

Steve Leavitt arrived in Haines this spring with a backhoe, a trailer full of tools and a dream to build a cabin. “Nothing big or fancy, but somethi...

In the wake of an unresolved problem with wood pellet boilers in Haines, the Alaska Energy Authority has indefinitely extended a deadline for spending...

A nearly mile-long, forest trail winding through a downtown wetland should be traversable in a few weeks, Scott Hansen of the Chilkoot Indian...

It was a fitting coincidence that the Haines School Board approved pursuing an agreement for housing the Chilkat Valley Preschool on the same day...

North Tide Canoe Kwaan of Haines will hold a prominent spot at the dedication of Sealaska Heritage Institute’s Walter Soboleff Center on May 15 in J...

The town’s annual Earth Day Fair will be held 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Haines School cafeteria. It will feature displays on energy,...

Shawn Bell is the Haines Borough’s new harbormaster. Bell, 31, was appointed assistant harbormaster in April 2014. He grew up in Colorado and previo...

“Long winters.” That’s how lifelong resident Tom Bieleski explains the 13 noted bridges of the world he’s replicated with tiny “timbers...

An upswing in sales tax from tourism and construction helped offset a dip in retail sales, boosting Haines Borough sales tax income 2 percent in 2014....

A petition circulating around town this week asked the Haines Borough to suspend design work on the harbor expansion project to allow for more public...

Haines Borough School District officials this week said they were flattered – and a bit surprised – by an Internet-based company ranking the...

Artists are invited to submit work for a portrait and figure show to be held at the Sheldon Museum June 19-July 25. Submissions are due May 22. The...

A commercial development on Front Street is planned primarily as an expansion of an existing marine repair business with a bar and restaurant as...