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Police go lightly in enforcing bear-attractant law
Haines Borough Police Chief Bill Musser said this week he’s using public education to gain compliance with the municipality’s bear attractant...
Sockeye surge, hatchery chum buoy gillnetters
An unexpected surge of Chilkoot-run sockeye, stable prices and hatchery chum catches helped make the 2014 commercial gillnet fishery another lucrative...
Eagle plate collection has landed
Besides a spot to stage 62 mounted game specimens received from a Juneau natural history display, the American Bald Eagle Foundation also is looking...
Volunteers make headway on lighthouse upgrade
Teams of volunteers spent four days this year at Eldred Rock and are slowly making the cavernous lighthouse building more livable, said Pam Randles. ...
KHNS will add 2nd full-time reporter
Public radio station KHNS will employ a second, full-time reporter starting Nov. 3, staff reported at the station’s annual membership meeting Sept....
Borough designates downtown boat yard
The Haines Borough is taking the first step toward a downtown municipal boat yard, a facility supporters say will help keep money in town during the w...
Mine summit leans to port partnership
A private-public partnership to restore the Chilkoot Lumber Co. dock as an ore terminal was floated as a potential model at the Haines Port...
School extends paid vacations
The Haines Borough School Board voted 5-2 Tuesday to give as much as six weeks of annual paid vacation leave to three janitorial and maintenance...
Bee gone: Event unpopular, drain on staff
The Haines School spelling bee has been squashed. Principal Cheryl Stickler said the loss of bee sponsorship by the American Legion and declining...
Sundberg runs 29th at state championship meet
Glacier Bear Keegan Sundberg placed 29th of 129 runners at Saturday’s state cross-country championship near Bartlett High School in Anchorage. The...
Eagle foundation seeks room for collection
American Bald Eagle Foundation founder Dave Olerud says his organization has been gifted a significant attraction, but it may take closing a section o...
School board candidates give views of district
Incumbents Anne Marie Palmieri and Brian Clay are unopposed as they seek re-election to three-year terms on the Haines Borough School Board. A third,...
Skippers: Rescue was luck
Two gillnet boat captains credited with rescuing commercial fisherman Woody Pahl said luck – including a piece of floating debris and the presence o...
Army Corps down to 2 pipeline clean-up projects
The Haines section of the Haines-Fairbanks military fuel pipeline suffered bullet holes, collisions with vehicles and corrosion during its 16 years...
Replacing school roof questioned
A local contractor who worked as foreman on a Haines High School roof replacement in 1999 this week questioned a proposed $1.4 million bond for replac...
Fossman will play pro basketball in German league
Kyle Fossman has gone pro. The Haines High School all-star basketball player who won MVP honors at University of Alaska-Anchorage has signed a...
Naturalist Jacobson pens three guides to mushrooms
People stalking moose aren't the only hunters in the woods these days. September also is a busy...
Chilkat king return looks like record low
Preliminary numbers suggest king salmon escapement to the Chilkat River will be the lowest since records have been kept in 1991. This year’s return...
Feldman looks back on 30 years as local doctor
More than 30 years after arriving here on the rumor of work, Dr. Len Feldman is closing his local practice. The last day he’ll see patients at his M...
Fair's carousel sturdy, but not a rarity
The old-fashioned carousel at the Southeast Alaska State Fair isn’t that old or that unique, and it’s not worth as much as some have previously...
Summer rain tops record set in 1956
Only four-hundredths of an inch of rain fell Thursday, but that was enough to clinch an all-time record for wet summers in Haines. Between June 1 and...
School board frets bond approval
Expressing concerns about voter approval of $3.9 million in pending school bonds, Haines Borough School Board members Tuesday took steps toward a...
Board rejects digital meeting packet
The Haines Borough School Board on Tuesday almost voted to do away with printed meeting packets, before getting hung up on the question of providing...
New ranger hired for Haines-area parks, preserve
Thomas Kain is the new state parks ranger in Haines. Kain has worked for the Division of Parks in...
Stickler will lead food service program at Haines School
Brandie Stickler has been hired as food service coordinator at the Haines School. She’ll be responsible for developing the menu at the school...